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Photoshop Painting Techniques: Hair and Fur Using advanced Paint Engine functions to create custom effects Finally, switch back to your Brush tool and create a new layer. This layer should be given the Color Dodge blending mode in the Layers palette.





Select a light brown color, and on this new Color Dodge layer, start drawing lightly along the edge of your image to produce highlights.



Perform any masking and compositing you wish, clean up anything that doesn't look just right, and voila!



There's your own, custom, filter-free hair effect. If you have any questions, be sure to visit me in the Adobe Photoshop forum or drop me a line at the address below.

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