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[Magicdragon]

The flickr image is copyright protected. It says All Rights Reserved at the bottom and that's how you tell. Also the last horse image, from the front, has a halter, no halters, and the 2nd to last I would prefer if they were all adults.

[Kagit]

Front: (Flickr)
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=230990704&size=o

Ok... I've looked through Flickr, Stock.xchng, and NSHC... This is all I have found. Do you know of any particularly great methods of searching for these kinds of images? Or perhaps, a better search engine type thing?

[Magicdragon]

Well I use google, but um yeah I wouldn't recommend that ;D in the end we are all liars.

Searching: Know your animals, but because I said back bird doesn't mean actual black bird, try raven, crow, or even a black swan. So long as it's a bird that is black. If you don't know what other birds are black, look them up. Search the obvious first and then get creative, switch the words. Like instead of horse rearing try rearing horse, or black horse rearing, or try looking up specific breeds that like to do that, like the Lipizz...those white horses ;D

1) Black Bird, perferably flying. Or not flying, but with wings spread out or w/e
a) searched raven flying http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=169382989&size=l
be) black vulture http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=290525012&size=l
c) crow fly http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=16...67595758&size=o

2) Horse rearing
a) forgot http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382232186&size=o
Be) andalusian http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=365822587&size=o
c)

3) Horse with all legs off the ground, perferably extended
a) Horse jumping http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2994275&size=o
Be) mare gallop http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382223694&size=o
c) crappy image, Hanoverian http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=3501027&size=o

4) 4 images, 2 Horse from behind, 2 horse from the front
a) Paint stallion http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=188815425&size=l
aa) paint mare http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=238980501&size=o
Be)
bb)

5) Any bird with wings extended up and away from the body. You know flying, like the bird wings in my tutorial.
a)
Be)
c)

Oops sorry 3 can have tack! Grr flickr is being such a jerk right now so once more will finish later.

[Kagit]

Oh my god...
I tried all those fancy 'change the words a little, something great will come up' thing... I must have just not tried enough times.

Oooo I did that Lipizzaner thing. I found one, but didn't know about the copywrite thing at the bottom.

How long did it take you to find all of those?

Another question, if you click on the little = sign at the bottom of the page, it says that that means they don't want you to change the image in anyway, making it completely useless to us... Do we care about that?

[Magicdragon]

How long? Prolly like 2 hours total. I'm veryyy picky as you can see xD

And as for the thingy at the bottom...yes..we'd be breaking copyright to use that image. Why did I accidently pick one out?

but of course you can always ask the photographer, no harm in that, unless you get a grumpy person...*mumbles*

[Kagit]

Ok, so it doesn't take NO time XD I was kinda worried I was going really slow.

Yes, there are a couple that you chose that have that sign at the bottom. A LOT of the images that I have seen have that down there.

True, can you post comments or something on Flickr? How would you talk to the photographer?

[Kagit]

Horse Rearing:
'rear horse' • http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=361518381&size=o [has the = sign]

'playing horse' • http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=175380951&size=o [has the = sign]
• http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=17...01062765&size=o

Horse in Air:
'gallop horses' •http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=175380886&context=set-72157594401062765&size=o [has the = sign]

[Magicdragon]

Okay that's really weird, because when I found those images you could edit them, I read like every single page. So that ticks me off. I use to picture find for studios so yeah mistakes pfft! Well w/e doesn't matter now..

You can join flickr or if you have a yahoo accout, just sign in with your email. Aka you're already a member xD

And those images you jus posted, appearantly they are only for share, so yeah we can only use images that ca be edited, so those won't work sorry. Stupid flickr I wonder if they like changed their rules or something lately.. I know the advanced search for some reason won't load for me i jus see white, so that's why I check every image, so that's why I'm annoyed that by some magicalness the images I found are obsolete. -.-'

New Assignment
Well neways while I'm gone here is you're assignment. I want you to do a black horse with black wings and a white horse with white wings, fighting in the air. Be creative with the position!! Don't jus did what I did for my image "It takes two" in my gallery. I want something a little more creative.

Break it up for me. Cut the black horse out and the black wings, and put the wings on the wings on the horse, but do not blend them on! Jus let me see em. Ditto for the white horse. Blend smudge them w/e show me that step for both horses, then put them on a background of your choice and spiffay it up!

Please please please!! Work on blending the wing onto the horse. If my tutorial isn't close to your style then research other tutorials. Be aware that jus cause the end result has to be a black and white flying horse, you can use coloring etc to get that results. Do don't feel stuck. Although their should be an abundance of black and white ^^

[Magicdragon]

It was fun teaching you Kagit and I know I bumped heads with you from time to time I blame the PMS lol! Anyways I just don't have the time. I should have been focusing on school, but I'm a rather stubborn procrastinator and my history class is chewing my ass off, so I cannot keep up, which has become pretty obvious as of late. Mayhap will run into each other again, toodle-loo.

[Kagit]

Oh wow... I was going to say the same thing! (beat me to it... tsh...) =P

I agree, as of right now, I'm at school from seven in the morning to six thirty at night, and on Mondays, I'm there at six to six thirty. That and my grades are kinda... eh... You should have noticed my lack of time on this site, but this is really the first chance I have gotten to tell you that I have to... stop... *sniff*

I hope we do run into each other again! Maybe over AIM... o_o

Seeya Magicdragon!