I uploaded the photo to Picnik http://www.picnik.com/ and cropped the photo to get rid of the background then used the 'neon' effect. It's really easy to do and better still if there is no 'fussiness' in the background. These are the original photos that I used.
Tiff that is so cool i tried doing that with my turtles before and cham pics but they didn't turn out well i just tried my leopard gecko, not nearly as good as yours! lol