Ravenna and I found a dead beetle in our backyard. I put it in a jar & photographed it. Below is the image, with a couple of different styles applied to it>
Auto levels:
Manual Levels (ultra blue mix):
Sepia tone. Because the image already looks creepy, might as well go for broke.
These images make me realize that I really need to spend a bit more time in Photoshop & learn some new techniques. Nothing I did here was new. I pretty much used similar techniques back in 1998.