First post

Hello everyone,
This is my first blog post .
After the first 2 weeks study DIM2, i've realized that my skills in photoshop are no where near the acceptable limit. So i decided to study hard.
After some attemp of making and screwing up, i have built up some so called the first *beep*...
The below is a picture of flower i took when i was on a tour to Phan Thiet












And this is the image of flowers after taking off the background. I've used Extract and lasso tool to take out the whole background. It is so time-wasting and unbearable. But it's done.












This is the final product. In this last step, i have taken advantage of the pen tool. Actually, i'm not very pleased with the result. I should pay attention more to the position of the flowers, why the thorn still looks not as smooth...













I've used somes skills learning in class to apply, such as extract, blur, lasso tool and pen tool...