Purple Praying Mantis

agent A · Jul 9, 2012

Precarious said:
Orange you glad I'm such a nice guy?

Yay thanx

I want an orange mantis so bad lol

The closest species I've had to orange were gongylus gongylodes and Blepharopsis mendica

Precarious · Jul 9, 2012

agent A said:
Yay thanx

I want an orange mantis so bad lol

The closest species I've had to orange were gongylus gongylodes and Blepharopsis mendica

You'll have to buy an ooth from my rusty Oxy female and hope her babies show the orange. She is the most orange mantis I've ever seen aside from the orange Rhombodera valida nymph.

More photos here:

http://mantidforum.n...showtopic=24422

agent A · Jul 9, 2012

Precarious said:
You'll have to buy an ooth from my rusty Oxy female and hope her babies show the orange. She is the most orange mantis I've ever seen aside from the orange Rhombodera valida nymph.

More photos here:

http://mantidforum.n...showtopic=24422

I just might and I might buy a few Rhombodera when they r available

Crazy4mantis · Aug 1, 2012

Precarious said:
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.