Christmas Card Picture Photoshopped

Here is a rare occurrence on my blog: pictures of my children. I have a two and half year old and a 19-month old. Needless to say, taking Christmas pictures with two toddlers is always an experience. Erin wanted to get pictures of the children in their Christmas pajamas in front of the Christmas tree. Getting the children set up to cooperate with each other and mom (the photographer) is an effort in futility. Noah thinks it is a game of "catch me" where he runs away laughing while I try to catch him. Mihaela loved taking the pictures and would try posing, until Noah got too close and sibling rivalry kicked it with personal space being invaded.

Anyway, after many attempts, we finally got a halfway decent picture. The only problem is that to get Noah to cooperate, he had to be holding the remote control:




Obviously we can't send that picture out with the Christmas cards. No problem I say, heroically posing with my hands on my hips and my chest out. See, I have been playing with Adobe Photoshop so that I can do really neat announcement slides at church. Photoshop is powerful. It can get rid of a remote control.

However, my p-shop sk1llz r the noob (i.e., I'm not that good with it yet). So, instead of really crisp photoshopped picture, we ended up with this:



I'm not all that happy with it. But Erin thinks it looks great and nobody will notice the disformed hand, the lack of boundary between bottom and carpet, and the different light shading on the carpet. Oh well...I'll get better with practice.