Blood will Flow

It's tricky. You want to encourage them... and you don't want to step on anyone's toes, you know?
I think my way of dealing with it has been to post more and more about the process I go through when making my art, so that other people may get some ideas how they can do stuff....easy stuff like matching the lights on the elements, softening the edges so that it doesn't look so cut and paste, soften it with texture at the end to blend it all together etc - typical errors that a lot (and I mean a lot) of manippers do in the beginning. I was lucky to have photoshop in my education, so I've had about 250 school-hours in photoshop (3 months of photoshop 20 hours pr week + plus homework in photoshop on top of that), where the teacher taught us how to soften the edges etc, otherwise god knows how I would have made my manips...