The best frame has one child looking at the dog
Family photos with a two-year-old rarely line up. In this example a family stands by a hay bale at a pumpkin farm in low evening sun. The grandparents, the mother and the father all smile, and everyone is in the right place, but the toddler has turned to look at a dog and only shows the side of his face. A second frame, taken moments later, has him looking straight at the camera, though in that frame the grown-ups have moved.
Who uses this
- Parents making a holiday gift or a large wall print from a family photo
- Anyone whose best group frame has one child looking away or blinking
- Photographers who need one frame to work for a whole family from a short burst
How the edit is handled
A human editor takes the toddler's head from the second frame and fits it onto the body in the first one: same position, same size, the same orange hoodie collar. The tilt of the head, the curl of his hair and the warm side light are matched, and the four adults keep their faces, poses and clothes from the first frame. Faces are compared with the original at full size.
The join at the neck and collar and the way the hair catches the wind are rebuilt from the surrounding picture, so they are an estimate made to look natural. The result is a family picture put together from two frames, and small differences in the hair or the expression are possible.
What to upload
Send the main photo and the frame with the better face, ideally from the same burst so the clothes and light match. Tell us which person's head to replace.
This example uses 2 photos you send: the main shot and the next shot, where the toddler is looking at the camera. Both are edited into the result, so it is 2 photos, 2 credits. A photo you send only to show the editor something is free.
Photos
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family.jpg
1 credit ($8)
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replace.jpg
1 credit ($8)
2 photos to edit
Instructions
My toddler's looking at the dog in this one. Can you swap in his face from the second photo, where he's looking at us?
Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos
The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.
