molly, maybe AnMal fooled us and its not transpareny but a checkerboard background ?

Used Eye Candy 3's fur and yes, it runs inside GIMP nicely (PSPI). One of the few PS plugins that have not been broken in GIMP and I do wish someone would update PSPI to be less buggy. Oh well.

molly: thank you! i actually never thought about how it looked like transparency, i just have a thing for shocking pink combined with checkerboard .
esper: tell-tale! go on, just spoil all the fun ...
lylejk: a-ha! i knew there was something suspicious about that fur. in my eyes, pspi is about as suspicious as it gets .

Well, i used this same: Select - Distort
Conforms to the screen of the tutorial.

very confusing steps.

I remember that 5 years ago I created a tutorial about how to create "furry text", I called that tutorial "Tiger Text". I only used the GIMPressionist filter. If you want to take a look at the tutorial,this is the link. I'm pretty sure that this effect can be improved.

Wow! That texture looks really good, Molly.

Did you make any modifications to the tutorial?

Good to see a few nice things being made from my happy accident
I didn't really expect it to be much use... next time I'll try to make the instructions a tiny bit more readable for people (assuming I stumble on something else at some point!)

Looking forward to it...I love that hairy-fuzzy look

thanks gram.
I made a pattern with garagecoders' tute. I then opened up an image and put it below the pattern in the layer stack. I selected the image (alpha to selection) invert select pattern layer and delete.
After you get your fuzzy image put a copy of your image below and lower the opacity until you see the image then use eraser to take out the parts you don't want fuzzy.

molly - lovey duck.

you don't need the fuzzy select for this but anyway, here is what you do.
XCF below, just turn one layer on at a time to see the layers.
Start out with a pattern. You can use any pattern, any size. If it isn't as large as you want, then make it bigger.
Just go to image > scale image. I made mine 3 times its size.
Add alpha channel to your pattern.

Put the pattern through Garagecoders tute.
Open your pattern, resize it the way you want. Duplicate it
Gaussian blur the dupe
HSV noise on the dupe
Bump map using the dupe layer as the map
turn off bump map layer or delete it, you don't need it anymore.
Use the settings in the filters like shown in Garagecoders tute.

Now find an image from the Bing link or any image that you like. a colored one is preferable, your choice
In your layers, have your finished hairy layer on top, put the image below it and (alpha to selection) Go back to your hairy layer and you should see your dotted selection through the pattern...Invert then delete, now you should just have your hairy image shape.

Now on your hairy shape layer, lower the opacity until you can see the parts your want to erase, I erased the eye, beak and feet.
When you are finished erasing, turn your opacity back up to 100%
Thats it. yell if you are stuck.

@Jas45, I made a small tute on how I used this with an image in my last post, I included the XCF also.

That really looks like real fur. How did you do that Graechan?

- i secretly hope it's the result of another graechan script...

Perfect fur text effect Graechan!