I don't think it's cheating either. There have been times when I've spent hours on hair and still hated it. I have the absic shape but it still looks "wrong" somehow. So I copy the hair layer and apply the fur filter to it and make it semi-transparant, fixes it right up :-) My only thing with the images were you can erally tellit was used is that the edges are a bit harsher than they should be, the hair doesn't have that "soft" quality to it. Sometimes a slight blur will fix that too ;) Besides as Daio said, as long as you are happy with it, who cares. Ultimately we all do this to be happy and to me that is important with any art form.

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