Photoshopped Fish Competition

[rosswake]

Hey Everybody,

I was curious to see if anyone else had done some photo editing on their fish. Here is a picture of my edited Jack Dempsey. Lets see some pictures from people who have more photoshop experience or creativity than me. Winner gets a high five! ; ) (I know mine needs a lot of work)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6623/jack2editedos4.jpg

does anyone know how to get the image to paste here directly from imageshack? I have only been able to paste the link, but I'd like to make it easier for everyone to see the image. Thanks in advance.
Ross

[Lobo.]

put [ IMG ] URL goes here [ / IMG ] around the url without the spaces

although you could just go under "my pictures" in image shack, then copy the url that is shown next to the image, there are a cople that are labled for forums

[rosswake]

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6623/jack2editedos4.jpg
after

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1213/10008992editedrm8.jpg
before

Thanks for your help.

[fishflaps]

Instead of wrapping your link with [url].. try putting & It may help but without trying I don't know :) EDIT: Someone beat me to it.. :rolleyes:

Here's my photoshopped picture, its just a silly one as I am in a rush & can't do a better one just now.. It's my fish Lily scaring a cat with her halloween mask! Haha!

http://kirstie.otmb.org/misc/lilymask.jpg :D

[rosswake]

lol - thats pretty good! Perfect for the holiday!!

[wataugachicken]

very cute!

[rosswake]

by the way, does the unedited JD look like a male or female? thnks

[fishflaps]

Looks to me like a female. I'm no fish expert but i always got told males had a slight hump on the forehead.. unlike the smooth head yours looks to have..

I'll probably be way off but its a 50/50 chance eh.. :D

[Cylon]

Looks female to me as well

[fish_freak]

I would say that yours is a male. Generally with Jack Dempseys if there is lack of irridescent marks on the gil plate or only a few spots like yours then it is a male. If there is lots of irridescent splatches on the gil plate then it is a female. Here is a pic of mine that im prety sure is a female. Notice all the irridescent marks on the gil plate
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e178/bigjeff532003/fish/IM000874.jpg

[rosswake]

I'll have to post a more recent picture. the one thats shown above is from about 2-3 months ago, and its grown a good bit lengthwise, but has gotten a ton thicker and taller (if that makes any sense). It looks very similar to the one you just posted fish_freak (nice looking JD by the way). Except for the lower jaw coloration. Mine has less than yours, and that makes me think its a male. I guess I'll know one day if it ever lays eggs (or not) lol.

Fishflaps, I am not sure, but I don't think JD's get a nochal hump. I know for a fact that Green Terror's do, but I wasn't aware that JD's developed that at maturity. (mine isn't anywhere near mature enough to have one even if JD's do get them). Have you ever seen a picture of a JD with a hump?

[rosswake]

c'mon guys and gals. Are there no pictures that have been modified out there that people want to share?

[fishflaps]

:laugh: As I said, i'm not a fish expert but I have a friend who keeps some pretty nice ones - it must have been a different one he was showing me... it looked pretty much like a JD... but obviously not :p:

[rosswake]

I gotcha. I was just wondering b/c I would love it if mine developed a hump. I think it looks pretty cool!

[rosswake]

Here's my Green Terror - i think it looks better before I did anything to it. lol

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5534/mrteditedav0.th.jpg


http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/466/10009082el3.th.jpg

[Lobo.]

i think that you used the wrong code for those pics, they arnt showing... and they all have <img on the end instead of the HTML [img] soo try again

[rosswake]

yep, U R right. you noticed it faster than I could fix it. It should work now.

[rosswake]

for some reason, I thought there would be more response to this.

[fish_freak]

I dont have photo shop. Cany justify buying it when its cheaper to print pictures online at like snapfish. I have the crappy photo program that came with my camera. HP photo edit or something like that but its pretty much just a resize and crop program.

[rosswake]

yeah, thats what I've got at home too. BUT my job has a nice photoshop editor that I've been messing with in my spare time lately. Obviously, I'm not very good at it, but its pretty fun making normal fish look way different.

[fishflaps]

Hehe I didn't know they wore lipstick & had sharp teeth! :laugh: ..Pretty vicious eyes too :D

http://kirstie.otmb.org/misc/grr.jpg

[rosswake]

LOL!! Thats really cool!! Jack is gonna be so happy with his new fins! How'd you do that with his fins? :thm:

[fishflaps]

I used the goo filter with Photoshop. Its in Kai's Power Tools 6. If you can get any plugins for it, its so cool. I just love to mess about with pictures.. faces in particular can be fun! :laugh:

[rosswake]

yeah, It is fun. I just made my avatar pic look like mosaic art. I'll post it when i get to my computer again. I'm out for the day. ya'll take it easy!
ross

[plah831]

Here's my Green Terror - i think it looks better before I did anything to it. lol

I disagree. I like the orange and other bright colors. If that was a real fish, I'd buy it! :)

[portabuddy]

well i didnt know that a festae's existed and i thought that the original was shopped I said to myself Yah i can do that too. so i shopped it some more, note he happy fish on the left.

[portabuddy]

I "improved" my avetar image a bit. just some colour and contrast stuff, very small changes.

[portabuddy]

try this one on.

look its in breeding mode. :)

[rosswake]

Portabuddy, the tank with multiple fish is a really good job. The tank itself looks great, and the color changes you made make it look really wild. i like it!! I think I'm going to modify my blood parrot now. I'll post it in a little while. see ya'll soon.

[plah831]

try this one on.

look its in breeding mode. :)
pretty! Good work, it looks very nice. Coulda fooled me that those weren't its real colors.

[rosswake]

here is what Jack really looks like now. He has gotten bigger and the colors are darker. The only edit done on the photo was that I cropped it down so the size would be acceptable for the site.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1561/jacknov1acroppedei1.jpg

[rosswake]

here's another:
http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/1851/jacknov1croppedfl2.jpg

[rosswake]

I wish my GT would start developing some color like Jack is! He has gotten more and more colorful, and my Gt is still as plain as ever. : (


Does it still look like a male? It seems to have more color on the jawplate than it used to. I hope its a male b/c they get more colorful, but either way I'll be happy. I just want to know for sure what it is. lol. It seems like everyone has a different answer.

[KingOfTheDeep]

males dont have any color on their gillplates when mature

[KingOfTheDeep]

your talking about the jack right?

[rosswake]

allright, that means jack is a female since there is color on the gillplate! I guess I'm gonna have to change its name. lol.

[KingOfTheDeep]

lol, well i wouldnt chamge it yet, he's still got a lot of growing to do

[rosswake]

I figure if he turns out to be female, i'll probably just add an "ie" at the end and go with Jackie. gotta keep it simple for him. : )

[rosswake]

here's a pic of jack with some color edits. notice the new blue colors in the stripes

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/743/jacknov1coloreditmw5.jpg

[Rallysman]

dogfish

[rosswake]

dude, that is hilarious!!! see, I knew this would be a fun idea!!