A happy accident Z-Brush may be useful after all

During my time looking over the Internet looking for good tutorials on how to use Z-Brush correctly i stumbled upon this great video tutorial called - ZBrush Tutorial - Zapplink / Image plane Plugins

Here is the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcsYWqhxV2M

Basically this tutorial shows you how to create great looking textures using in conjunction Photoshop and Z-Brush. I decided to have ago at this technique and see what would happen. Below is how it was built up:

Here is the diffuse that this tutorial helped me generate when it exports it out into Photoshop:

If we do a quick comparison between the old texture and the new texture you can see a massive improvement.