This photo is completely un-retouched... ROTFL... in our wildest dreams. This image is 100% PSPv7 photo manipulation, there isn't one item that wasn't reworked, except maybe the hands and even they were cut out and re-colored.

A few years ago a chain of mall photographers, that also do pets, ran a special and we took our two Giant Schnausers for a "family portrait". Some time ago, as a joke, I revamped the photo in PSPv6, reworked it again in PSPv7 for this project... the dogs were almost silhouettes without detail, as they were even in the original picture. Photographing black dogs is a real challenge.

Introductions: starting clockwise, with one of the two females in this image, the voluptuous blonde, who is that woman?... oh! its me :::yeah right::: On my shoulder, a pied cockatiel whom we now call Nutcase (his name is a long rather sad story). Next, Elvis (he used to sing), a "blue" canary, now in birdy heaven. My sweet boy, Arnold, whose head was transplanted for this image. Front and center, am sure he would demand this... Ming, the merciless, a persian mix, who had his tail removed and put back on here... something that I'd sometimes like to do in real life. Behind him is my dh, a "Superman-ized" Teddybear, holding on for dear life to his camera-shy girl, Sweetpea. On his shoulder, a 18 year old, Moluccan cockatoo named Pincus. Finally another singer... TeeJay (Tom Jones) a "moptop" canary, that looks like he's wearing his nest on his head. You can read more about some of these characters, if you like. Thats our family zoo...er crest...: D