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Rich, since your post #89 here's some things I've learned:
pelicans keep the same plumage thruout the yr---only during breeding their cinnamon neck and nape get more intense. other possibilities: 1. some birds are not connected to seasonal changes--particulary in temperate down thru tropics, and will breed thruout the yr.. 2. birds that get larger in size take longer to mature. for ie--bald eagles don't get their complete white head until approx. 4yr old. they are immatures and don't breed until then. wouldn't be surprised if pelicans are immature for awhile. don't know about the cormorants; inclined to think they mature in their first yr.. these can be birds about to see their first spring or they might breed thruout the yr and these are juveniles.
can't open your .xar file. will try again another time
nance
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I saved the file from the forum and was able to open it. Don't know why you couldn't open it.
We are just back from the beach. No birds in sight. It was low tide and we went shell looking. No shells either. Mook and Kai needed to run on the beach before it rains again.
Rich
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Nance, Did you right click on the file name and use save target as to save the file to disk. Then open the file in Xtreme. Just a thought.
I'll have to look at the pelicans more closely.
Rich
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an experiment with one of Rich's butterflys (used with permission)
I couldn't open your .xar file cuz my X is temporarily 'down'
nance
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Rich, here is a scan of bird silhouettes (shore birds) taken from one of my bird books. the extractions that you are using--straight from your photos--are exactly what these are (non-graphically speaking). one of the first ways of id-ing a bird is by seeing its Sill-O-ette. you can id a bird without ever seeing any color becuz bird postures/profiles by species are always the same.
4. cormorant (flight)
5. loon (flight)
6. great blue heron
7. mallard
8. pied-billed grebe
9. marbled godwit
10. greater yellowlegs
11. dowitcher
12. clapper rail
13. whimbrel
14. black-bellied plover
15. turnstone
that looks like a very very OLD rock layer. looks like it has a fossile folded into it?? where's that from?
oh, about your bird extractions. the extraction in the far upper right corner, the one you used and posted a page or so earlier in this thread...I'm curious about this one becuz you've got a G.B. Heron in yours, but this is the Sill-O-ette of a crane. remember herons fly with folded necks and cranes fly with neck fully extended---that is IF you want your birds to be realistic
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Thanks Twidder,
That was a bird from two images. The one standing in the grass, and one flying. I added the legs. Didn't know about the neck. Maybe some image warping. Rich
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oops, sorry, need to fix my own mistake: if you are intending to change your extraction from which you combined two others others from---also the beaks for both crane and heron are extended as well
nance
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I was intending to warp the image to change the neck.
The rock image was at Davenport Landing. Years ago ships were loaded with cement for transport. The cement plant is still active.
Rich
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that's neat how you can 'warp' something in the manner you're showing. I wouldn't know--yet--if psp has any comparable feature to do that
that looks much better for the heron. you have an excellant photo of your own to interpret from--the one where you caught the heron just as it appears to be taking off. now, can you warp to pull the bill up straight, then try pulling the entire head/neck back towards the body some?
here is a sketch of G.B. heron in full flight. you are welcome to download this. maybe you have the ability to change the perspective to more of an overhead viewpoint(??)
nance
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here's my first attempt at simulating your extraction (got the bill wrong---a few other parts as well--- and don't know how to change it except for doing the whole thing over). could only place it on another layer. suppose if need be I could float it and use in another image that way(?)
used the photo from one of my bird books of the Willet
nance