Photographs of my Cichlids
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Onion01;1324195; said:not a very bushy nose on your bushy nose pleco
females have little to no "bushy" on their nose.
Camera isn't great, it's a Fuji Finepix S6500FD. I'm quite handy with Photoshop though, you need good photographs as a base but Auto-Colour/Contrast/Levels and some sharpening can go a fair way.
Here's a quick guide for any interested. These photographs were taken using the built in Flash of the camera.
I'm using Photoshop CS3 for this, there's probably similiar settings in Paint Shop Pro etc. and I'm sure older versions of Photoshop are exactly the same.
Original image resized to 1000x750, not a fantastic photo but it's alright. Follow these steps in this order. Very basic. You can play around with all of the manual settings if you wish to, I generally won't bother.
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Colour
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Contrast
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Levels
Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen
I just use it to make the photograph look like what it actually does in person, not just prettying it up. Cheers for the comments too, much appreciated.
Here's a quick guide for any interested. These photographs were taken using the built in Flash of the camera.
I'm using Photoshop CS3 for this, there's probably similiar settings in Paint Shop Pro etc. and I'm sure older versions of Photoshop are exactly the same.
Original image resized to 1000x750, not a fantastic photo but it's alright. Follow these steps in this order. Very basic. You can play around with all of the manual settings if you wish to, I generally won't bother.
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Colour
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Contrast
Image > Adjustments > Auto-Levels
Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen
I just use it to make the photograph look like what it actually does in person, not just prettying it up. Cheers for the comments too, much appreciated.
i've always wondered wut a gt and a jd's hybrid would luk like...and i guess this one is rite on the nose 
although...is this a female jd or something...?
although...is this a female jd or something...?
blazin_dragon18;1325641; said:i've always wondered wut a gt and a jd's hybrid would luk like...and i guess this one is rite on the nose
It's a Blue Acara. His/Her colours have been a bit off for about a week or so, not really sure why, doesn't really have a solid territory as he gets bullied around the tank a bit by my Green Severum.
It's not a pure Blue Acara, but a strain of it from a different location. Pure BA's don't have the orange tipped Dorsal fins, or any orange/yellow colouration on the Caudal fin. I was scared it was a GT at first but it's a very docile fish and shows really great colours when it wants to (At the moment now its either when he decides to man up a bit against other fish, or when hes eating)
Better photo, no flash so it's not great but it shows how his colours can look true to life.
