Before & after - memories for our granddaughter

[swalkr]

Our son passed away in 1999 at the age of 27 of cancer. His daughter, our granddaughter misses him terribly. She was an attendant at her high school's homecoming event last year. Her father would have been so proud. I decided to try to memorialize this event, even though her father couldn't be there. I am going to work on this some more probably with a different background, but this was my first attempt to put two images together and have them on a different background. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

http://picasaweb.google.com/walker65...dKyleeTogether

[Russinator]

Swalkr: I'm sorry for your loss. It had to be terrible to lose a child [for you] and a father for your granddaughter.

I love what you did with the two pictures.

Russ

[kevq]

Great job with the blending.
What a wonderful gift for your granddaughter.
Kev.

[Hypnomedi]

Suzanne,

The thought is great and she will love it !
But the blendings need a lot of work.
For a start, you show the pictures in a very low size.
Even than , I can see the cutting and pasting. (no feather)
something to look is the sunshine (and shadows if there are any)
The father stands in sunlight and daugther has non (inside).
In a smaller picture it is less visable but if the picture is much larger
it is very good visable.
see separate pictures.
A very good thing is that the poses match great and that help a lot.
background is very personal, maybe better in front of bushes and trees,
flowers?
If you want some help you may send the pictures at full size !! to me.
The larger the pictures,the better you can adjust.
don't enlarge them or you loose a lot quality if you not used to do it.
only the full size as they have been token.

If you want to do it yourself, use a softer brush for the selection mask.

Johan

[Wendy]

Hi ...

I think that you have done really well with the images ... because they were taken at different times and are at different resolutions its never possible to get a perfect match but you have done really well with it

She will love it .. and will be so proud that you did it for her

Wendy

[uniqcrafts]

Nice job! What did she think of it?

[JuliaM]

Nice job with the picture. I'm sure your granddaughter will truly love it; it's something she'll treasure.

JuliaM

[AngelicKim]

Suzanne, so sorry to hear about your son. You have done a great job so far on the two photos. I am sure your grand daughter will treasure it forever.

[nkeevers]

Suzanne, so sorry to hear about the loss of your son. You did a great job putting them together in one picture. She must be so pleased to have a picture of the two of them at her homecoming.

[Patty]

You did a great job. I think your granddaughter will be pleased.

Could you explain to me how you did it. I have a few photos that I would love to add someone too.