I've been post processing since the very first digital camera and I have never heard of the acronym PP to mean that :-p
A silhouette has to look good in order to use it, which means your image has to be good either as a profile view like faces turned etc. Otherwise they are just blobs.
You might find other alternatives pleasing however; having a digital artist do the work would probably be key.
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