TEN TRIPPY BUTTERFLIES

Well. Butterflies, with their colored wings decorated with all kinds of beautiful abstract artwork, can be considered trippy even as they naturally are. But in today's post, I decided to make them slightly trippier through Photoshop. I mean, I'm not so sure that the edited butterflies are actually trippier than their original versions. Is more like Photoshop changed the feel of the trippiness.

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I'll show you some of the ten butterflies promised in the title, in both versions, the original, and the more or less trippy edit. In this opening image, for example, you can see a perfectly normal Argynnis pandora butterfly in the animated left part and the Photoshopped one in the still part on the right.

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This is a photoshopped female of the Melanargia galathea butterfly. In the following animated GIF ...

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... you can see a male. For a short moment in the middle of the animation, you can see the original, unedited butterfly.

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Here you can see two trippy, photoshopped versions of the Aporia crataegi butterfly.

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This is a photoshopped version of the Minois dryas butterfly. I used only the simple "invert" option here. Just a one-click process.

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Here you can see the small Thymelicus action butterfly. When it comes to its color, this species is definitively trippier in this animation than it is in nature.

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Here you can see two versions of the Melitaea cinxia butterfly. Both versions show a Photoshop creature, not the real butterfly.

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Here you can see the "simply inverted" Pieris mannii butterfly.

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Here you can see the natural and the photoshopped/animated version of the Boloria dia butterfly. Both are very trippy, in my opinion.

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In this last picture, you can see two photoshopped versions of the Gonepteryx cleopatra butterfly.

AND THAT'S IT. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS SLIGHTLY UNUSUAL "NATURE LOVERS" ENTRY. WHILE SEARCHING FOR SOME OLD PHOTOGRAPHS FOR ANOTHER POST, I CAME ACROSS THESE SHOTS AND DECIDED TO HAVE SOME CREATIVE FUN WITH THEM. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHS, THE PHOTOSHOP EDITS, AND ANIMATED GIFs, ARE MY WORK.

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