Hey I'm just looking for some new/better ways to create or clone hair.

If I have some bald spots, or just negative space in an image of a model and I want to create hair to fill those spots, what is the best way to go about doing this?  Just copy samples of the models hair and replace them and shape?  Are some techniques better for different styles/colors of hair?

I tend to use the eydropper and chose part of the hair that is the same color I need to add to.  I then use the brush tool and a very, very small brush and draw in the hair.  Works best if you have cut out the person to place into a different background and need to add back those small stands of that did not make it.  It is time consuming though.

I think (dont quote me) but Russel Brown http://russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html has stuff on this there. I think it was there I seen it before....that or retouchpro

There are lots of brushes available for making hair, but they never give you the real texture or variation in colour that real hair has. They are fine enough for manipulations with a bit of painting, but if you want to do serious high res retouching then I'm afraid you're in for a lot of work. If it's a small space that needs hair then I paint it all. If it's a quite large space then I copy and paste parts of the hair already present and blend them in with cloning and erasing, before painting to add uniformity.