On Fri, 26 May 2006, Austin Hair wrote:
On 5/26/06, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
:-) You might want to try doing it via photoshop, ie. sit your baby down somewhere and have someone take a photo of him while you keep his head still and hands out of his mouth - make him look at the camera by clicking your fingers, waving a rattle etc. Then you can photoshop yourself out, plus anything in the background, making it neutral. If you don't have photoshop, you could use something like the GIMP <www.gimp.org>. If you can't/don't want to do that yourself, load it onto Commons, and have someone do it for you :-)
I don't know about in France, but our state department is inclined to reject any photo that shows any evidence of having been altered, digitally or otherwise. And when you think about it, you really can't blame them.
It's true, you would want to be pretty darn confident of your photoshop skills... or of your puppeteering skills
SJ