Human skin with hair

Looks pretty good, but the hair may need some tweaking.
It looks somewhat... Hazy.

Needs a Robin Williams mode.

OK, I think I see the problem.
You need to blend the hair (and it's shadow) with the skin right at the end of the filter.
Right now, you have it set that you blend the hair with the skin, then start changing hue\saturation\brighness\contrast for the skin. That also changes the hair, which makes it look unnatural.
Blend the hair with the skin as a last step, and then the hair will keep it's appearance as you want it.

Another tip I can share, you have a couple of perlin noise components with almost the exact same settings. You can just use just one, then manipulate the output, it will be faster than making the filter calculate the noise twice. In this specific filter it would also eliminate the need for two noise distortion components. Look at the image, and see what I mean.

I can't seem to be able to extract the zip file...
Try uploading it again.

BTW, you can just upload the FFXML file on the forum, no need to zip it

Looks better now.
Only thing you might want to consider, is limiting some of the sliders with remappers, for example hair length - it doesn't look like hair anymore on 100% length. Then again, if you change the hair color to red or blue it then looks like veins

You can limit the values of controls with them. In the control you check "use remapping" and then you will see little thingys with values popping up where the control is plugged into the component. Simply click on that and tweak the values.

Been working hard on it. Still not happy with the hair. It just looks so out of place. Some strands are way too thick. The skin looks gorgeous now though.

Any ideas to approach making hair better?

Don't have 3.0 :/

Would it be possible to get a screencap of how his filter is made?

How did he make the first Threshold transparent?

Also, I need more of the image for context. Specifically how the curve works out at the end. If you could help me with that I'd appreciate it!

Can you show me a image of the three boxes to the right? The Rectangle/Offsets. I have the blades of grass working, but how to get them to random around and stuff, no clue.

Thank you Morgan.

Bombers.

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Indigo Ray wrote: Thank you Morgan

You're welcome.... thank me for what exactly?

First lemme tell you this is getting better and better

I modified your latest version so it could have more hair, here's an example with hair density set to 5:

Here's the filter after a bit of editing.
Note that I've added a Hair Zoom slider, so you can make the hairs look bigger or smaller compared to the skin. This is just so it will be easier to dial in the correct hair size you need, as I have changed all the scaling of your original filter.

I also took the liberty to clean up some of the needlessly repeated components.

Human Skin with More Hair.ffxml

I guess if you ask 100 people what they think of the filter, you'll get 20 different answers. It all boils down to individual taste.
I myself find the filter quite appealing, and it could be usefull for 3D modeling and such. Too bad I can't do 3D though
If you look at the library, you will find some subjects have many different filters, each one is a different style or interpretation of the same subject. Each filter has it's own look, and you never know when your filter is just what an artist was looking for

BTW, thanks for the credits, but I do this because I like to help

Coffee did all the hard work, I just moved things around a bit.