Nikon & iPhone 5S

so sweet Sadakos Frog :))

liquified background.

This adult female has not quite finished her meal here. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat. Some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk and if spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the Web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet.

HSS! Processed in Topaz: Texture Effects, wistful wind, and Glow Liquify 2

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Created for: Photoshop Contest week 896

Original photo by: Jaci XIV

Background photo is my own ICM image of magnolia blossoms.

The rabbit is my own photo shape.

Filters, canvas texture, and frame are from Photoshop.

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Converted in On1, liquified in Photoshop

The spiders main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. This adult female has not quite finished her meal here. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat. Some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk and if spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the Web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet.

The butterfly moved with tranquility and grace until it finally came to rest on some flowers in my garden.

Created for Award Tree - Textured Pieces Contest

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For Slider's Sunday.

The Black Swallowtail butterfly photo and swirled material texture are my own. The liquify is from Photoshop.

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Created for TMI's Spring Dreams March Contest

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This is my own photography. Filters are from Photoshop.

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Created for Photoshop Contest Week 865 - Beach Corner

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Thanks to Skagitrenee for the use of her starter image.

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All the other photography and photo shapes are my own. They are from Brighton and Worthing England. Starfish is my own photo. Filters and sandstone texture are from Photoshop.

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HSS

Created for Artistic Manipulation MixMaster Challenge #47

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CHEF brillianthues wants us to imagine a colorful, warm weather scene!

➤ The background of your image must be a visibly abstract pattern. Examples HERE. (A subtle texture will not do.)

➤ The image must include ONE circle, sphere OR orb.

➤ Also ONE bird OR butterfly.

➤ And flowers – as many as you wish.

➤ NO MUTED COLORS.

For Slider's Sunday.

Photography and the butterfly, flowers, and (oil)sphere shapes are my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

Thanks everyone for your views, comments, awards, invites and faves.

I am going to be slow getting stuff to groups, will do few each day or so, still real busy working on stuff. It does help a lot if you want this in your group just send a invite.

HSS!

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Created for Kreative People Treat This #290 - April 15th - April 22nd 2022

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Thanks to brillianthues for the use of her source images:

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Filters, frame, and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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This spider is usually found low down in vegetation in a funnel web often in brambles, gorse and heather, In late summer the female will construct a chamber within the web which is made up of a complex maze of silken tubes that will contain her egg sac and will often be seen guarding the entrance. The spiders main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat. Some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk and if spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the Web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet. Unfortunately most of us have been brought up in life from young children to fear a spider and most will feel sorry for the bee straight away but how many feel sorry for the bee in a beak of a stunning looking Bee-Eater Bird or the Stickleback fish repeatably being hit on a branch before being swallowed down whole by a stunning blue King Fisher or even a earth worm that snaps in half when being pulled out of the ground by our friendly Robbin in our gardens. The answer is not many as all three do not have eight legs and look like a spider, its a funny old world that we live in.

Abstract.

HSS.

Sliders Sunday: Photoshop

dreamscope edit

Thanks indeed everyone for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.

Awards are encouraging and especially from those that add my work to their 'faves'.

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For Award Tree's Challenge #206 - Water Treatment

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Photography is my own. Damselfly and koi photo shapes are my own. Black frame is from Photoshop.

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Created for Vivid Art's June Contest - Heat

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Photography is my own. Butterfly photo shape is my own.

Filters and sandstone texture are from Photoshop.

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a different edit of the frog pic from last week. I somehow like the liquified colours 😉🐸 HBW

Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 40-150mm F2.8

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to watch or leave a comment or award :)

All my photos are © All Rights Reserved. The pictures are for viewing, not to be downloaded and shared on any other site or for personal use without my explicit permission. And definitely do not post ads in my photos!!! Thank you! :)

- Textura: 9, Textura Extra: 8, Members Choice: 11

- Colors of the Heart: 8

- Sunshine Award: 9

- Nature in Focus 19A/47P

- Specialist Nature & Wildlife Photographers 7, Specialists' Choice Nature & Wildlife 4

Happy Halloween :)

a little fun with Photoshop effects ...

Created for Shock of the New Circle Mania Challenge.

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My own photography. Circles are from Fun Edits in Photoshop.

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Pose

Inworld Custom Pose > Posefi-X / AnyPose / Fate Hand Poser

SL Lighting

4 Lights / 1 Proyector

Photoshop

Liquify / Contour smoothing

Levels / Color & Fx Filters

Dodge and Burn Technique

Paper curl.

HSS!

Sliders Sunday: Photoshop

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For The Award Tree Challenge # 208 - October Fest

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Photography is my own including the two chippy shapes (outside pumpkin), caterpillar, mushrooms, red leaves, and two nuthatches. Filters and canvas texture are from Photoshop.

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Created for The Award Tree - Triptychs August 2020 Contest

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This is my own original of a motion blurred group of colorful fall leaves. Filters, effects collage and border are from Photoshop.

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Created for Vivid Art - Vivid Spooks!! Halloween Challenge

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For Award Tree - October Blur #199 Challenge

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For Slider's Sunday.

Thanks to Dennis Hill for the use of this source image.

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The rest is my own ICM photography. Filters are from Photoshop.

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for Smile on Saturday

The red dog bin in my local park came in very handy for this one. The spider's main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. This adult female has not quite finished her meal here. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat.

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Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

155th MMM Elephant Image Challenge

Thanks to Paul Kane for the use of his elephant starter image:

www.flickr.com/photos/pk2004/4001277290/sizes/l/

Clown - Clip Arts

Small balls - Public domain

Kaleidoscope background - Public domain

Filters and frame are from Photoshop.

Thanks for your views, comments, awards, invites, and faves.

Created for Artistic Manipulation MixMaster Challenge #47

www.flickr.com/groups/artisticmanipulation/discuss/721577...

CHEF brillianthues wants us to imagine a colorful, warm weather scene!

➤ The background of your image must be a visibly abstract pattern. Examples HERE. (A subtle texture will not do.)

➤ The image must include ONE circle, sphere OR orb.

➤ Also ONE bird OR butterfly.

➤ And flowers – as many as you wish.

➤ NO MUTED COLORS.

Photography and the Blue Jay, flowers, and (oil)sphere shapes are my own. Filters are from Photoshop.

Thanks everyone for your views, comments, awards, invites and faves.

There are 16 species of Araneidae to be found in the UK and all with 8 eyes and many and have distinctive abdominal patterns. Some species can be found in a variety of colours but will always have the abdominal patterns usually remaining the same. Can sometimes be known as the Pumpkin Spider, Cross Orb Weaver, Crowned Orb Weaver or Diadem Spider. These spiders are also Cannibals and will prey on each other which sometimes happen when mating just before or after sexual activity. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat. Some spiders can produce at least six different kinds of silk and if spiders were scaled to the same size as us it is said that the Web would be strong enough to catch a helicopter. It has also been claimed that a cable of silk as thick as a thumb woven from spider silk would be able to bear the weight of a jumbo jet

Just having fun

playing with liquify filter, mixing hands and free smoke brushes from deviant-art

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This beautiful rose was already drooping, and I decided to help it along with subtle liquification.

Hope this brightens your day whenever you see it! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.

© Melissa Post 2017

The spiders main primary function is to quickly immobilize and subdue its prey and start the digesting process. The venom can contain many different substances which can include amino acids, proteolytic enzymes and neurotoxic polypeptides. This adult female has not quite finished her meal here. Once a spider has caught its prey and will want to eat its food the first step is to literally vomit a digestive fluid all over the food and then to chew the item with the jaws (chelicerae), then on to suck up the fluid back into the mouth together with the liquified meat.

1 raw, selectively converted to B&W, then liquified

I started with the photo posted in first comment box. After changing the colors,and many PSE filter sliders, I found DISTORT~LIQUIFY. I had a blast playing with this treatment!! Happy slider Sunday everyone!!

Playing With Sliders...

From the archives...

In October 2021we took a day trip to Caledon and took some fall shots, the image was in my to be edited folder and i decided to play with the liquid filter and push the trees around a little bit making them appear very bendy. .

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for Sliders Sunday

Pose

Inworld Custom Pose > Posefi-X / AnyPose / Fate Hand Poser

SL Lighting

4 Lights / 1 Proyector

Photoshop

Liquify / Contour smoothing

Levels / Color & Fx Filters

Dodge and Burn Technique

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Created for Mystic Challenges - Chinese Zodiac

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For Slider's Sunday.

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Thanks to abstractartangel77 for the use of her source image - Rainbow Sphere

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Chinese rabbit symbol is from a Yahoo image search. Two rabbit characters are from Dreamstime.

A pet rabbit we had named (Wilson), and the red bg are my own photography. The filters, blue wash/canvas textures, confetti, and frame are from Photoshop.

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Take a moment and really look at the terrain below. If you were standing here May 17th, 1980 you wouldn't have been able to see it because you would have been standing in an old growth forest of Douglas Fir on both sides of the river. The valley, which was six hundred feet deeper, was lush with ferns and flowers were beginning to bloom because, like in this shot, the snow had just melted. The initial blast from Mount Saint Helens started at 220 mph and accelerated to approximately 670 mph, (the blast was heard in Montana but not in Portland Oregon leading some to believe that it was supersonic) about the speed of sound, and ripped ALL soil and vegetation from the valley before burying it in a tidal wave of debris propelled by gas and the instantly liquified glaciers.

It is against the law to walk off trail anywhere in the blast zone which extends from the crater nearly 15 miles down that valley, (about the Hoffstadt Bluff Rest Area) as scientists from all over the globe study this erosion, growth, sediment deposits etc. to gain a better understanding of the effects of these violent Earth burps. (patent pending) :)

Central British Columbia

DID YOU KNOW? Feathers are fed to the grebe chicks almost immediately after hatching. In fact, feathers are very often the first item eaten by newly hatched chicks of many grebe species. So these grebes evolved to use their feathers as a way to slow down digestion. The feathers form dense balls in the digestive tract and appear to slow the passage of food long enough that the food can be safely liquified. The bird then regurgitates the tough bits within a ball of feathers.

tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMWtx9SEgy8

Mirrolab explosions worked with paint filters in Photoshop and the great liquify tool on Photoscape X.