Halloween Photo manipulation using Pixlr

Have you ever tried to snap that perfect Halloween photo of your favorite little ghost goblin or ghoul?  Get a perfect picture of your little Princess or Ballerina for that holiday photo?  If you have, you soon realize just how difficult it is to get your little one to pose for a Halloween picture, especially if you want to take it in front of that scary haunted house with the howling sound effects as your little monster starts to cry.  Even if your little one is not frightened by posing in front of a haunted house, he or she is is likely to have such a Halloween candy sugar rush that your little monster won't stay still long enough to get a non-blurry photo.

Luckily, there is technology to save the day!  You don't even need an expensive photo manipulation software to create professional looking images. All you need is a digital camera. (Don't have a digital camera?  Check out my store at http://www.cafepress.com/darkrubymoon for flip camera)

Below is a video that takes you step by step through the process.  You can then follow along step by step through the rest of this instructable.

Step 1: Step 1: Get an embarrissing Halloween picture of favorite little one

The first step in this process is the hardest, though luckily you have all year to complete this task.  The first step is to take a non-blurry photograph of your kid, or in my case my niece, in their Halloween outfit.  It doesn't necessarily have to be an embarrassing picture, but that helps. If you don't have a kid or a niece around, it is probably not a good idea to go around taking photos of someone else's kid, so substitute a picture of any consenting subject, preferably someone you know, in a Halloween outfit or costume.

So, here is the picture I finally got of my niece wearing her Halloween costume.  Please note the Christmas tree in the background.  It took me until Christmas to finally get her to pose for a picture in her Halloween outfit.  It took that long for her to come down from the sugar rush from all the candy to finally get her to stand still for a picture.  Fortunately, kids like to play dress-up, so if at first you don't succeed in getting your Halloween picture,  try try try again.  A helpful tip: The threat of Santa not delivering gifts is always useful to get your kid to pose for a holiday photo.  Unfortunately the threat of the Great Pumpkin not delivering gifts does not work quite so well.