It’s that time of year again when millions of parents attempt to catch the essence of their offspring’s charm on camera in order to send pictures of said cherubs far and wide to relatives, friends, former neighbors, etc.
My dilemma is this – we have a cute picture of the boys sitting on Santa’s lap from a ride on the “Santa Express” train we rode over the long weekend. It is a much better picture of them than the multiple dozens we had attempted over the prior week. Time is running short. mr. jolt wants to use the santa pic for the holiday card. I, however, don’t want to impose santa on my non-santafying friends, and, frankly, don’t really want to include some stranger in a suit in our yearly photo.
Any suggestions?
Advertisements
November 28, 2007 at 1:04 am
Without seeing the picture this one is tricky. Could you crop it so that Santa is fairly absent? If one kiddo is on each knee you could edit Santa out entirely and dink around with the background. Shutterfly has some options where you can add vignettes and other borders that might help if both kids are on the same side of the photo. You might also be able to take one really good picture of each (not necessarily the Santa picture) and use photo editing software to create a fun picture- something different from the norm.
Confession: a few years ago the pictures I got of the kids were crap. In frustration I took a wonderful professional picture, scanned it, uploaded it to an online photo service and had copies made for our cards.
November 28, 2007 at 10:05 am
Thanks for the suggestions, but I am so not good at photo-fixing(don’t even have the software actually, how lame a mom am I?) I think I found a solution on snapfish – I was looking at their holiday cards & they have some that can take more than one photo. So I’ll just take photos from earlier in the year (I can definitely find one good one of each of the boys) and plop them in there. Yipee!