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Below
please find the final Mantis on Thyme digital photograph as
it appeared in the newspaper editions of the About Computers
column -- Digital Photography For School, Home, & Office
. Immediately below that photo is the mantis photo before any retouching
or image editing was applied.
Further down are
thumbnails of some ten variations of the mantis photo along with listings
of the PhotoShop filters and/or Intellihance Pro preset enhancements that
were applied to create the special effects. To view the full-sized photos,
please click on the photos.
Adobe PhotoShop 5.5
and Extensis Intellihance Pro 4.0 were used to do the photo retouching and
image editing.
Final Mantis on Thyme
Above is the real
digital version of the Mantis on Thyme photo that appeared
in your newspaper.
Before Mantis on
Thyme
The above
Before Mantis on Thyme was cropped from a much larger
original digital photo. The original was cropped in order to get the photo
down to a two to three newspaper column width print size -- about four to
six inches wide. It also was cropped to let the mantis take a much larger
portion of the photo. That's because the mantis is the subject of the
photo -- not the thyme plant and lots of extraneous stuff in the larger,
original digital photo.
Compare the before
version to the un-cropped final Mantis on Thyme below. The
Final Mantis on Thyme was cropped from this larger version below in
order to make it two-columns wide.
Notice the before
picture has a flat, monotone pale green. On the other hand, the final
version has a much richer variation of greens and other colors. More about
that further down.
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Producing the Final Mantis on Thyme Image
The sequence of
images below shows development of the final Mantis on Thyme image starting
with the Before Mantis on Thyme image and ending with the before final
cropping Mantis on Thyme image.
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Figure 1b |
Figure 1c |
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Figure 1a is the original cropped mantis before
the application of any retouching or image editing. In
Figure 1b, the native PhotoShop 5.5 Auto-Level
and Fade-Multiply filters are applied. The PhotoShop
5.5 Clone Tool (Rubber Stamp) was used to remove
the thyme leaf that is in front of the middle of the mantis'
body to produce Figure 1c. Next the Intellihance Pro
4.0 Quick Enhance preset was applied to create the
before final cropping Figure 1d
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Some
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How to Create Super Digital Photographs,
Graphics, & Web Page Images
Use this information packed About Computers
Web site to find out why, when, and how to create stunning digital
photographs, cool graphics, and great Web images. Here are some
links.
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Here, at the About
Computers Web Site, you will find an archive of many past editions of
About Computers articles and some other helpful
information and links. The stuff you find here will help you get lots
of bang for the bucks you spend on your computer systems and software.
Many articles include references to helpful computer books with even more
help and information about the things discussed in the
articles.
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name of a great, informative, newspaper column. It's all about computers.
The Column covers all sorts of computer software and hardware. It includes
product overviews and reviews. About Computers shows you how-to-use
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