Enhancing Photos to sell reptiles

[pugsly]

So does anyone do it or has anyone been duped?

I have only just got Photoshop and damn it is so easy to change the photo it got me thinking if anyone has been caught doing this!

 

[pugsly]

What about new colour morphs!

 

[junglepython2]

wow do you have the before shot to compare?

 

[Magpie]

Ha, I'll give ya $50 for it
I've enhanced photos, but only to use as avatars and stuff. I'd never enhance a pic to make a sale, although I do use the best pics I have usually. Unless the pic does not show true to life. Nothing turns me off buying an animal like a bad photo.
I need to get photoshop.

 

[Magpie]

Steve, you need to take the shots in front of a plain background so you can make the background colours normal once you've modified the colour of the animal The bredli works well because it has a green / blue background and you've only changed the reds.

 

[pugsly]

Thats the colour it was!

Few more then

Red seems to be easiest..

 

[yommy]

nice hypo if only they where that red.
I'm sure if someone was stupid enough to try it they'd be shown up for being shonky.
Pretty tigh community we have and the last thing you want is a bad name if breeding is what you want to do.

 

[nightowl]

Photoshop is great!! I've been using it a while now and you can do anything (graphic related!) with it.

Here is a link to some wallpapers I made from scratch when I first started.

http://users.tpg.com.au/theowl/garsed/brett-website.html

Shane

 

[junglemad]

no one would do that. here is a jungle i euthenased coz it was the wrong colour

 

[pugsly]

Yeah true that.

This one will get you!

(No its not mine lol)

Nice work Shane!

 

[MrSpike]

why photo shop an adult chondro to be red? just get a hatchie red phase hehe, there is no doubt in my mind that some people do do it

 

[Retic]

I can't see the point in doing it, all you would achieve is getting bad feedback because animals don't look like they do when they turn up with the new owner.

 

[Kirby]

this site shows heaps on how they do it on blue tongue lizards... http://bluetongueskinks.net/care.htm just scroll down heaps...

ENJOY!!

 

[pugsly]

All good points, just thought it might be worth some discussion, by the way it is a ripper of a program!

 

[Kirby]

the reason they do it is because they could make an extra few thousand dollars even a few thousand in america....

 

[CodeRed]

Yeah Ive been juped by a breeder that does quite a bit of photoshopping. Wont be buying of him again.

Always best to see the animals in the flesh, especially with highly variable ones like jungles and orange/red bredli.

 

[Kirby]

they dont really care about feed back.. they just want money

 

[pugsly]

Wow great site ta!

 

[JandC_Reptiles]

Don't know how to use the program but MUST learn to (remove blemishes etc from portrait pics)

 

[triptych_angel]

I have photoshop somewhere on CD, if only i knew where it was, or if it wasnt thrown out accidently. I love that program.