Welcome To the Obsession Studios Academy!

How long have you been manipulation (with this program or in total)? - a few weeks

What is your favorite picture you've done? erm... i hate all of them

What is your favorite picture someone else has done? - anything by Nine. She is GOD

What is the style of picture you'd like to work on? - anything and everything

Why did you start photomanipulating/why do you want to learn? Because I want to be able to make uber sexy pictures for the charras i RP

What would you like to learn the most? - how to cut effectivly and smudge.

What do you think you're best at? - i'm okay at cutting

What do you think you need the most work on? - everything

What type of animals do you work best with? - horses

What is your favorite breed of horse? - warmbloods

hmmmm warmbloods are hard to find piccehs of... x.x

Great, though. now I know alllllll abooouuuutttttttt you. ^^ jkjk

Go ahead with the first assignment.

that one?

that's the one. ^^ Do as much as you can and we'll go from there.

erm, but i don't know how to smudge or remove the halter...

That's fine, just post what you have nd we'll start with that.

ok. lemmie get it.

ok.

Also, when you're saving, make sure to always have a photoshop file (.psd or something like that, it's the default) so that you can change the pic if needed, and a JPEG so that it's ready for the web. ^^ Can't remember if I told you that or not, nd don't know if you knew or not. lol

oh, okay!

hehe, post it when you're ready.

Here we go. Sorry it took so long. I messed with the clone stamp tool around where the halter was, and it turned out kinda bad....

Okay. Not bad, for just starting out.

Places you did extremely well:
The backside of the front legs and the chest. Very crisp and neat, very well done.

Places that need the most work:
The bottom of the belly, the back of the horse, the top of his rump, and around the face.
See how there's extra parts of background left over? You can see grass or some sort of something that isn't horse showing up? You don't want that. Also, around the face, there's a lot of bumpy cutting and some white left over. If you've going to leave on white as a blaze, then leave on more so it's a bit more obvious. If not, then make sure it's ALL gone.

Try to make sure that your selection brush is set to 100% hardness. That way, you won't get fuzzy edges. They're obnoxious and hard to deal with.

Last but not least, when you're cutting out manes (if they're long) and tails, make sure that there is no background showing through. If you have to cut off a bulk of the tail to do it, then that's ok, do it. We'll fix that by smudging later.


If you're ok with it, I'd like you to re-do the lesson. I have a tutorial on the tutorials board here that explains the magnetic lasso tool and selection brush tool, so if you want to use that to help you, please do. I'm not saying you have to do it that way, because some people don't understand how to use it or it confuses them, but it should help you if you follow it step by step.

Make sure you pay attention to everything I've told you here, and try to apply it to the lesson this time.

You're starting off very well, though, don't be discouraged! I know I talk alot and it looks a bit discouraging, but I just want to give you as much info as possible so you can really improve fast! Thanks, my dear!

Roo, dear, if you've gone away it'd be nice if you would tell me where you're going so I know, and if not... Well, I may have to drop you as a student.

oh goodness. I'm so sorry.


I've been so busy I completley forgot. I promise I'll have it right up.


Again, sorry

here it is. i don't know why it added pieces of the background in everywhere, but i couldn't get them to go away.

stupid adobe.