Those annoying relatives

As the holiday season kicks into full gear, the cameras will undoubtedly come out in full force. Sometimes I long for the old days when everyone used film cameras so they were more particular about the shots that they took, and they limited themselves to a few mostly posed pictures. Nowadays, digital shots cost nothing to take, so statistics rule -- take as many shots as you can and surely one or two will turn out good and then you delete the rest.

I found a new site the other day that showed a rather unique digital image editor. It's got a lot of other features as well, but the one that really stuck out was their ability to literally strip people (or objects) out of a picture -- almost imperceptibly! The demo that they show at their site removes one of two kids jumping in the grass. When it's done, it's very hard to see where the missing kid once was. They call it their smart resizer... It'll be interesting to see who gets stripped out of their family pictures this year. Hope it's not me!