P. ocellata photoshopped

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Sparky

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This is done was done in Adobe Photoshop believe it or not. It was done by my friend Tamatha and myself. Took 4 days to finish, we basically just pasted the picture in the background and colored the mantis until it was all white,yellow and a little bit of light green then mixed in a few colors and added details. Well here it is...

We call it "Kiss of Death" A MUST CLICK!

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you would be better off shooting it with a white bit of paper behind it and saving u 4 days. :) what was the background u have before?

 
Kruszakus said:
It' ain't the best idea to feed them crickets...
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i know a freind thats breed walbergii and feed them just on crickets.i would rather use flys but when the flys are running low they can take a crikct or 2 . IMO :)

 
macro junkie said:
i know a freind thats breed walbergii and feed them just on crickets.i would rather use flys but when the flys are running low they can take a crikct or 2 . IMO :)
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That's exactly why I fed it a cricket, plus they can take on the crickets with no problem. The houseflies stopped coming because it's too cold now.

Well, we took the picture of it and the background is actually a bunch or drawers, baskets and a green chair.

This is a picture edited with NO SPECIAL EFFECTS. It was all done by hand using the paint tool to retrace and mix up all the colors. It took 4 days to

retrace it, not to take the picture.

 
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OGIGA said:
What did the original(s) look like? I can't even tell what's edited!
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It's here, notice how the cricket's antennae is down in the original and how off to the side the pic is. Look very closely at the pic and you can tell the difference. The mantid's head and the cricket is a big give-away, I think it was edited pretty well.

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Nice 1, i had always fed my whalbergii on fly ever since i had him as a tony nymph, but before going on a week end away i thought id feed him cause i he was a little thin, no flies around so i gave him 1 cricket, he is now dead :)

 
I resigned from crickets and now if I run out of waxmoths I just feed my mantids with roaches. Thea are cleaner I suppose, less casualties and besides they are more durable :)

Now I only feed my mantids with fruitflies, than the lesser waxmoths A. grisea (i noticed you don't breed those and it is a pity) and then greater waxmoths G. melonella...

 
Sparky said:
That's exactly why I fed it a cricket, plus they can take on the crickets with no problem. The houseflies stopped coming because it's too cold now.Well, we took the picture of it and the background is actually a bunch or drawers, baskets and a green chair.

This is a picture edited with NO SPECIAL EFFECTS. It was all done by hand using the paint tool to retrace and mix up all the colors. It took 4 days to

retrace it, not to take the picture.
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i understand it didnt take you 4 days to take the pic :rolleyes: what i mean is your be better of picking the mantis up and putting it on a white bit of paper..it will save you 4 days editing..it wil look alot better.

if u have phototshop u can cut and paste it on to another layer in 20 mins.

 
OGIGA said:
What did the original(s) look like? I can't even tell what's edited!
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thats cause you dont know what to look for..look at the back right foot.it looks out of place.a good effort tho :) its hard to get this right.i know iv tryed many timesi.its easy to do.but to do right where it looks natrula is really hard.u need to be really good at phototshop to do it.like igor does. its easier and saves you alot of time shooting them on a white paper.

 
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macro junkie said:
thats cause you dont know what to look for..look at the back right foot.it looks out of place.a good effort tho :) its hard to get this right.i know iv tryed many timesi.its easy to do.but to do right where it looks natrula is really hard.u need to be really good at phototshop to do it.like igor does. its easier and saves you alot of time shooting them on a white paper.
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Huh? The back right foot on the original and processed pictures look the same to me. Umm, am I missing something?

 
it took me 20 seconds to clone it out.i think it looks fine now..that bit on its back foot was very distracting.i hope you dont mind me editing your pic..if you do tell me and il delete the pic.i just wanted to show you what i ment,

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Oh Thanks! I was thinking of doing that, but I don't have Photoshop and my friend and I rarely get to meet up. I seriously want photoshop, all the other programs suck.

 
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Eh? What did you use? I thought it was Photoshop all along. Hmm, have you tried Gimp? I heard it powerful and has a lot of Photoshoppy features.

 
OGIGA said:
Eh? What did you use? I thought it was Photoshop all along. Hmm, have you tried Gimp? I heard it powerful and has a lot of Photoshoppy features.
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It IS photoshop, my friend has it, it was done at a friend's house. I tried Gimp and didn't like it; It's too complicated. I'm downloading trying Photoshop torrent right now.

 
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Sparky said:
It IS photoshop, my friend has it, it was done at a friend's house. I tried Gimp and didn't like it; It's too complicated. I'm downloading trying Photoshop torrent right now.
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if you get stuck using it and need tips pm me.

 

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