How to Edit Stain Out of Shirt for Christmas Photo?

If you send it to me I will edit it for you - I'm a photographer and it will take me two seconds probably... oh I see you got offers for that already! If you still need to send it: ____@____.com

I am a website designer and I use Adobe Photoshop. You kind of need to be pretty swift at operating that software and it is also not cheap. A better way is to use an online and inexpensive program called "Picnik". You have access to free editing features that don't cost a thing but $24.99 will get you a year of high class editing features that can remove anything from stains to facial wrinkles to adding eyeliner or plumping eyelashes. Check it out....you'll like it. wwww.picnik.com

I don't know of any photo websites that offer photo editing other than red eye correction or size cropping. If the photo requires complex editing (i.e. the stain covers a pattern or multiple colors on the shirt, etc.) you could check Craigslist for someone to do the photo editing for you. I have found that people charge about $35 for complex editing. (And for the perfect Christmas Card photo, it might be worth it.) Otherwise, can you find a friend who has photoshop to do the correction and trade for babysitting/cookies/etc?

See if a friend has some type of photo correction software like Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro. They have editiing devices. In Paint Shop they have little decorations you could put on them in the picture before you print. Or you could print the picture and put a little Christmas sticker (like a snowflake and put them elsewhere on the card) or a sticker that says something like "Merry Christmas" or "Happy New Year" on the card over the stain. No one will pick it off.

Check with friends. Someone most likely will have photoshop. That would be the easiest way to get rid of it. You can email them the pic and they could fix it in just a couple of minutes. Heck, if you can't find a friend, email it to me! It only takes a few minutes to fix.

I am laughing right now, because this is so real life! If you had the photo done at a studio, could they take it out?

No real advice on the photo thing, but you could just leave it and include a toung in cheek Christmas letter and explain your husbands stupidity and showing us all what we really have at home (a wonderful kid who gets dirty becasue Daddy loves him enough to get him ice cream instead of soy bean curds with sprouts!) Frankly, I would find it a great break from the uber perfect description of Hubby's great promotion, Moms new DIY solar panels, and the child on his way to pre junior olympic trials for what ever sport while juggling his 4.0 and buliding mud huts over the summer in a poor village in El Savador!

M.

Hi, I am a stay at home mom of three and completely understand your problem! I am also a graphic designer and work for a photographer part time. I would be really happy to fix your problem for you. I do have photoshop. Just email me your pic at full size and I will fix it and email it back to you. It should only take a few minutes to fix. My email is ____@____.com Christmas photo or something in the subject line so I don't miss it. (My husband does things like that too! :) L.

Picasa is a great free photo editing software by Google. Although I think you have to download the software to your computer, I don't think you can just do it from the website. I suspect that's probably the case with most photo editing software. You'll easily be able to do a great job in Picasa editing out the stain. If you can't download it to your husband's pc, is there another pc you could use? Or maybe download, edit, then uninstall?

You could edit something over the top of the stain. My mom puts a little holly in people's hair in the pictures or something like that...just an idea...