Paint Shop Pro v7 » Finding good pictures
All I use seach engines actually; Google, Altavista, Alltheweb and Yahoo. Use different search words. Warmbloods, warmblood, "warm blood", wb, hano, hanoverian, hannoveraner,oldenburg, show jumping, show jumper, eventer, hunter, dressage and so on. Depending on what kind of breed you want. I have seached for horses since 2003, so it's not that strange that I have so many good pictures. I have perhaps 5000 pictures on my computer, only of horses! If you use the image serach, for exampel Google, visit each NICE picture's page, not just view the picture. Visit the site, because you might find more nice pictures there. Choose only the pictures of big enough size and the ones not taken by a shaky hand (blurry). Make sure you only use stoc photos, or ask the photographer if you may use the picture in a photomanipulation. Even if there is no copyright sign, the picture is by default copyrighted, if nothing else is mentioned.
Editing
This picture here:
will never make a good picture. To blurry!
I've found this picture. It was bigger, but I have rezised it to fit the tutorial page. It doesn't look that nice, but it has potential. So I'm going to do something to it to make it more.. powerful?
So what I do, is to increase the contrast. How? In the toolbar there is something called Colors. Hoover Ajust, and choose Brightness/Contrast. Like this:
Choose a contrast that isn't to much, but enough :P. I have set the contrast to 25% like this:
If it gets to dark, you can increase the brightness (on the left side of Contrast)
The result:
