Making a Horse Profile on OMHPS (2023)

 As promised, here's a continuation of the OMHPS series. All directions are based off of how it looks on my Acer laptop, I have no idea what it looks like for you. It should be similar though! :)

Making a Horse Profile:

Step 1. Take a photo (or two) of your model.

Step 2. Open and log into OMHPS. Click the "My Horses" tab at the top right.

Step 3. Click the "Add Horse" button on the far left top of your "My Horses" page.

You should see this page:

Step 4. Start filling those blanks in. If your horse is a purebred, ignore the crossbreeds drop down. Try to fill in all the fields especially make and size. You upload your photos at the bottom and you can use the drop-down to select what privacy setting you desire. Watermark gives your images a watermark all over, private makes them invisible to other users, and public leaves it just as you see it. Regardless of what you select, judges will always see your original image.

Don't hit create yet!!

Step 5: Once you have filled out this page, scroll to the top and hit the next tab: references. This is optional, but if you have a rare breed you may want to link over to it's breed website, or to a picture of it. I linked to the American WB registry. (Don't worry, you won't lose your previous page of work).

Step 6. Workmanship next! On that tab bar you want to switch over to workmanship. Here you can fill out your color and pattern. If your horse is solid, just use the solid option in the pattern dropdown. You can hit the "use main horse image box" too. The pic won't appear yet, but it will once you hit create (but don't hit create yet!).

Step 7. Last one! Collectability. You can fill in your horse's release info here, like what years he was made, and what type of run it was. You can also choose the piece count. (Tip #1: Most regular run models have piece counts of 5000+. Tip #2 IDYB is your friend for this tab.) 

Step 8. Technically, you could go ahead and hit create horse now (bottom left) but I always like to take one last check over my first page again.

Step 9. Create horse!! Most fun. Press the button, pass the reCAPTCHA, and wait a couple seconds. The next page should look like this:

Congrats! Your horse is now on OMHPS. :) Tomorrow I will cover entering your horse in shows.

As always, please comment with any questions! I'll catch them in the next post. Thanks for reading!