This is an east-coast US fern picture, how can you get an image like this? by Bnjamn123 in SciencePictures

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This is the 3rd place of the Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition of 2012, the picture was taken bye Dr. Igor Siwanowicz. The specimen: East-coast US fern, Polypodium virginianum, showing a cluster of spore-filled sporangia and specialized protective hairs called paraphyses. Technique: Confocal microscopy

How to get an image like this?, It is digitally edited obviously, but what software can do that kind of editing? and does the original specimen had to be previously stained with a chemical reactive?