So, last week Melissa calls me and tells me that her supervisor (Alyssa) was attempting to fix a picture that she took of her two dogs, Barley and Owen, on paintbrush and prepare them for a Christmas card; with no luck. Melissa then recruited me to fix the problem myself, using my expertise in Photoshop. I wasn’t sure if I could do it, but I tried and I think I did a pretty good job.

Here is the original picture:

The problem was that Alyssa wanted the hoods on the dog’s coats to be over their heads, but as most of us know, dogs don’t cooperate that nicely and this was the best picture she could get.

She did take a few other pics which I was able to use, here are those two pictures:

I used this picture of Owen and placed it in the picture above, he was easy…

Barkley on the other hand had an ear coming out of the hood, which I worked on, as well as removing the ears from the wall and replicating the wall behind the ears to get this final picture below:

I doubt this picture even shows them, but I even added some berries to the little Christmas trees behind the dogs.

I work really hard on this picture above, but I think this one below was simply fun:

I love Photoshop…

–Cos

Saw this last night off of yahoo, from wired.com:

East Coast Blizzard Seen From Space

• By Betsy Mason
• December 21, 2009

The snowstorm that blanketed the East Coast this weekend was so big, it is even impressive from space. NASA’s Aqua satellite took this image centered on Washington, D.C., on Sunday with its MODIS instrument.

The blizzard shut down the federal government, stranded travelers, left hundreds of thousands without power and crushed the hopes of many retailers hoping for big sales during the weekend before Christmas.

The image covers 300 miles lengthwise. The two big rivers near the center are the Susquehanna (to the north) and Potomac rivers, which run into Chesapeake Bay. Washington, D.C., sits alongside the Potomac, just north of the river’s hook-shaped curve. The inlet to the north is Delaware Bay.

Higher-resolution image from NASA