Although I seem to suck at photomanipulations....

I can program a bit. Witness the output of the first version of my program! And marvel! Maybe!

test1.jpg is the main window with a test image loaded. The left side options are sparse because I deleted some things on there and haven't moved things around. This is a completely beta/alpha project at the moment so it's kind of empty.

test2.jpg shows a selection. Those little red dots are from me clicking on the image. Each click makes a red dot and connects itself to the previous dot. Clicking on the first dot again will enclose the selection. You can adjust dots after you've set them down but I haven't (yet?) added the ability to add/delete dots after you've enclosed the whole thing. Also notice I've changed some of the options on the left side. The "P" button lets me use an existing color from the image.

test3.jpg is the output from the Grow button. Right now the "algorithm" (a word I use extremely loosely here) is pretty simplistic. Not really hair-ish or fur-ish. It's all generated from within the selection although some may extend past the border. I did that to make it a little more realistic.

test4.jpg is what shows when you save the selection. This is a placeholder until I came make it look a bit prettier. I'll make it nearly transparent in future versions. This was just to have *something* in the meantime. You can have as many different selections as you like and change the settings for each selection to vary the hair/fur.

test5.jpg is the final output image from clicking "Save Image"

test6.jpg is just me showing how multiple selections would look. I've overlapped them.

So, yeah, that's it for now. You can adjust the density of the hair/fur, the angle, length, color and transparency. The (cough) "algorithm" does a bit of randomness for every single hair/fur so that they look a tad more natural.

I plan on adding more features shortly. The first one will be to allow you to add multiple colors to a selection and set the percent that they would be used so you can have a dominate brown color and a far less dominate grey/whatever color so the hair/fur is really random.

I don't know yet what I'll do with the final product. I'm varying between freeware/donation-ware/pay(probably $1-$5 if so).

So although I suck at drawing fur, I can make a program to do it for me