Image Source: Roularta Often alpha masking can’t help us maintain the loose hairs while cutting out the image like one shown above. This is where the manual brushwork comes handy. With the help of pen tool, you can easily create the shape of the artificial hair and define it as a brush using EDIT > Define Brush option. By applying alpha masking, you get the similar output as in image I2 shown above. Now in the mask layer, you can remove all the loose hairs spread on the edges. Then you can pick the color of the hair around where the artificial hair needs to be created. Create a new