Balloon Baby

 

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I have Spring Fever BIG TIME!

 

I played around in Photoshop to create this whimsical,

carefree...SPRINGY portrait of a baby floating by

balloons.

 

The photo is a compilation of three other photos!

 

If you want to try it...here's how I did it:

 

I started with a photo of someone holding up a baby in the air.

 

I took this one last fall.  I had to do some magical cloning

to get rid of Dad's hand and arm.

 

 

Then I cloned my kids out of this photo so I could

use the background.

 

 

I snagged the balloons from this photo...

One of my dud photos from a trampoline photo

shoot last summer. 

 

But the balloons were perfect!

 

 

I layered it all together and got this:

 

 

Look through your photos for somebody running,

or jumping or spreading their arms like this:

 

 

You can use my background, and I made a PNG of

the balloons for you to scoot into your photo.

 

 

And create something like this:

 

 

Or this:

 

 

Create some spring MAGIC!