Welcome To the Obsession Studios Academy!

[Kibbles]

Did you use the tutorial I posted on the Magnetic Lasso tool? That may solve your problems.

Also, if you were smudging to fix how cut off the mane looks, don't worry about it, we'll work on that later.

[Roo]

yeah, i did. i can use it okay.

stupid magnetic lasso

[Kibbles]

Heh it takes a while to learn but if you get the hand of it it REALLY comes in handy. I don't know why you came up with the pieces of background.... that's honestly really really strange. It's never done that to me before. I LOVE the magnetic lasso. *squishes it*

We gonna move on to a different picture, okay? I know how annoying it gets to do the smae one eighty million times.

I'd like you to find a picture of a horse that is around the same size as that one (use Flickr.com creative commons search, NSHC stock if you're a member there, deviantart stock images, or any other source that you can find that is not copyrighted) and cut it out. Don't worry about smudging, we'll do that later.

I'm not going o force you to use the magnetic lasso tool, but if you want to revert to that if you're having trouble with whatever method you choose, that's just fine.

Things to remember:
-Don't let any background show through the mane or tail. We'll fix it to look like hair later

-Make sure the brush is set to 100% hardness

-For now, leave in tack such as halters, we can work on cloning later

-If there is spare pieces of background left, an eraser tool can get rid of the for you, just be careful with it

-MAKE SURE TO SAVE IT TWICE. I want you to save once as a photoshop file, so that it can be edited later (when we do smudging/cloning lessons) and as a jpeg so that you can upload it to the web.


Thanks dear!

Oh, btw. I am trying to get accepted as a teacher at Transparency Academy. If I do, I'm probably going to stop teaching here. You can feel free to transfer over there, though. I just need a place where there's more activity. ^^

[Roo]

that kinda stinks about the leaving thing.



but i'll have the picture up soon

[Kibbles]

ok.

And I actually don't know about leaving anymore, because they haven't replied to my application and there are like three others from the middle of March. So I don't know if they're actually active.

[Roo]

The program was MUCH more cooperative this time



Sorry for the wait

[Kibbles]

*claps and cheers* MUCH better!

Ok. Inside the legs (where I assume you cut out later) it looks like somehow your brush might have reverted to soft, because it's a bit fuzzy. But no big deal, really. There's one tiny bump on the butt and too much green left in the tail, but you really did very well this time!

Did you use the ML tool again or something else? Whatever you used, it works really well for you, I think I'd use that from now on.

Keep the photoshop file on hand, we'll be coming back to that particular horse.

I want you to do one more cutting assignment for me. But to make it more interesting I will have you do the cutting and paste it onto a separate backgrouns (just like I asked you to before) but then, find a background (using all of the rules I told you about for the horse last lesson I assigned) and put the horse on it. Do whatever you would like to integrate the horse into the background.

I' like for the pic to be at least 650x650 pixels, or as close as you can get it to that if it HAS to be smaller.

Ready? Set? Go!

[Roo]

yay!


I am still using the magnetic lasso, we are learning how to deal with eachother.

Two questions. How, after you have already cut out the outside of the horse, do you do the spaces inbetween the legs?
I wasn't sure, so when I was using the selection brush, i just did that. It didn't turn out too well.
And two, how do you set the pixels?

[Kibbles]

For cutting out the inside, there's two ways you can do it. Well, there's more, but there's two that work really well that I use.

When the horse is still selected, you can hold down your ALT key and use the magnetic lasso tools. (Holding the ALT key makes it deselect areas instead of selecting)

OR

If you don't want to do that, you can use the selection brush tool, holding the ALT key, which will have the same effect. If you do that, make sure it is set to 100% hardness.

OR

You can use the eraser tool to remove it. But I wouldn't suggest that, it tends to look messy.


As for the pixels, I think what you're asking is how to make sure what size the pic is. When you're finding your background and horse picture, right-click on it, click on 'properties' on the drop-down list, and then find where it says what dimensions the picture is. It's always in pixels.

IF you need to resize the picture (which I do almost every time I make one) open the pic in photoshop (always save the biggest images you have, you never know when it will need to be bigger for something else) and then go to Image>Resize>Image Size (on your top bar with edit and file and whatnot...) and then type in a width you want it to be. The default should be pixels (there's a bunch of different measurements), so type in something like 650. The height will resize to match the proportions. If not let me know.

I think that should be all of it. Let me know if you have any more problems. Sorry it took me a while to respond, I haven't been on the computer very much for the past few days.