yeah, it seems like a lot of work to make a species that close to reality on photoshop. usually, people go extreme for photoshop fakes, know what i mean?
It doesn't take much in photoshop to increase colour. I think both pics are real. It does look like there is pink/red light being thrown on the first aro. Maybe NAN lighting. Someone might think that the colour was enhanced since everything in the pic seems pink, but NAN lighting would create that effect.