Purple Praying Mantis

[Sucrose]

Photo by: Glen Hush

 

[stacy]

Super pretty!

 

[gripen]

Photo shopped...

 

[jrh3]

Photo shopped...

+1 Its fake.

 

[guapoalto049]

Whoever did it works well in photoshop! You might like this one sucrose:

 

[Mvalenz]

Whoever did it works well in photoshop! You might like this one sucrose:

Nice one.

 

[tylersterrain]

I have a hard time believing that is Photoshop work. But at the same time, since when are mantids purple? Lol... could they have dyed the exoskeleton? Or is it completely legit? Either way, that's a beautiful picture.

 

[Crazy4mantis]

well, the whalbergi pics in kids books (labeled "tropical flower mantis" lol.) are dark pink. maybe they based it off of these?!?!

 

[frogparty]

Could very well be legit in the video, just enhanced with filters. Just because our limited gene pool in the USA doesn throw purple doesn't mean it's not possible.

 

[happy1892]

Photo shopped...

How do you know?

 

[guapoalto049]

I think the video is legit, the photo may be "enhanced."

 

[gripen]

I think the video is legit, the photo may be "enhanced."

+1

 

[Precarious]

Photo by: Glen Hush

This took 2 minutes in Photoshop...

 

[happy1892]

This took 2 minutes in Photoshop...

Very good!

 

[Crazy4mantis]

Howd you do that? I'm not that good at photoshop

 

[Precarious]

Howd you do that? I'm not that good at photoshop

This one was very easy because the mantis contained almost all elements of that particularly color. Normally it would be more complicated.

Go to the drop-down menu for Image / Adjustments / Hue/Saturation. Where is says Master, drop-down and select Magentas. Move the Hue slider to change the purples to other colors. You can then use Saturation and Lightness to further tune the effect.

Part of the flower will change too so I first created a duplicate of the original layer and applied a layer mask that allowed the mantis to show from the adjusted layer below.

 

[agent A]

This one was very easy because the mantis contained almost all elements of that particularly color. Normally it would be more complicated.

Go to the drop-down menu for Image / Adjustments / Hue/Saturation. Where is says Master, drop-down and select Magentas. Move the Hue slider to change the purples to other colors. You can then use Saturation and Lightness to further tune the effect.

Part of the flower will change too so I first created a duplicate of the original layer and applied a layer mask that allowed the mantis to show from the adjusted layer below.

shame on u, no orange mantis? :tt2:

 

[Precarious]

shame on u, no orange mantis? :tt2:

Orange you glad I'm such a nice guy?

 

[mantidsaresweet]

Orange you glad I'm such a nice guy?

HAHA awesome!!