Born of the devil

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Born of the devil

Postby blacknstormy on Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:18 pm

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Postby Maximus on Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:32 pm

There's one reason we all sleep indoors now. Freaky looking thing that.
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Postby moggy on Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:48 pm

Great shot but I give up, what is it? :?:

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Postby Dug on Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:40 am

this is the rare photoshop hopper an endangered species much like the Australian Drop Bear it is not spoken of incase we scare off the overseas tourists.

It is safer to tell them that psycho axe murderers and sharks are the real dangers rather than tell them the truth about the outback.

It is believed they grow to about 20 ft in length but no one has ever seen a fully grown one and survived.

The mating call sounds like metal on glass screeching "lEEEEKLIQIFYFILTERRRR"

This is obviously a juvenile who is not hungry it has probably just eaten an large dog or a small child.

:shock: :D :shock: :D :shock: :D :shock: :D :roll:
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Postby Zeeke on Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:32 am

Looks like that bug ran into a Liquifying action in photoshop and came out with a Gnarly paint job aswell .. bet its packing everything under the hood too... .22222 of a hp of pure grasshopper grunt

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Postby LostDingo on Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:28 am

great detail and the out of focus background adds to the uniqueness of the creatures shape
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Postby Maximus on Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:34 am

Bah - they should ban heavily PSd images unless they carry a warning! :roll:
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Postby Mal on Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:47 pm

Maximus wrote:Bah - they should ban heavily PSd images unless they carry a warning! :roll:


Hang around long enough and you get to know who is into PS and who is really good at it. Normally Blacknstormy will explain how the shot was achived.
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Postby Mal on Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:47 pm

 BTW nice PS job blacknstormy.
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Postby blacknstormy on Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:28 pm

Hi guys - sorry I couldn't respond ... for some reason the system locked me out, and only just let me back in :(

Yes, it was PS'd... sorry, it was late and I was bored, but the colour of the grasshopper is actually true colour, the only thing I changed were the background to b&w, and excessive use of the liquify tool......

I stand ashamed :) :wink:
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Postby Greg B on Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:31 pm

Would it be wrong of me to make "first wife" related observations?

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Postby blacknstormy on Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:38 pm

It's ok so long as she doesn't ever read what's in the forum :) :lol:
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Postby Willy wombat on Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:26 pm

Greg B wrote:Would it be wrong of me to make "first wife" related observations?

:lol:


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Postby mudder on Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:56 pm

Phew, I just opened the image and thought what the heck is that thing! :shock: I feel safer after finding out about the photoshop stuff... :oops:
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Postby mic on Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:54 pm

Wouldn't want that crawling up ya :shock: :oops: :shock:

Very interesting B&S

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