Grieving Father's Touching Photoshop Request

[jodymcdougle]

I read this article this morning, and it has crossed my mind throughout the day! it is so heart warming and touching for complete strangers to help this guy. As a father and Photoshop user, I can't tell you how proud I am of the people that stepped up!

hope you are able to enjoy!

-Jody



http://news.yahoo.com/reddit-users-h...133853414.html




When Nathan Steffel's infant daughter, Sophia, died after spending her six weeks of life in a hospital with tubes to help her breathe, he turned to Reddit with a simple request.
My daughter recently passed away after a long battle in the children's hospital. Since she was in the hospital her whole life we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes. Can someone remove the tubes from this photo?
The painful appeal by Steffel, who lives in Ohio, was answered by a collection of kindhearted individuals who edited Sophia's photo just as Steffel asked. The results were stunning.
Redditor funkybrewster posted this version and wrote, "This is super late but I really wanted to help out too. Here's my attempt. I hope I didn't overdo it on the color correction."

(Reddit/funkybrewster)

Other attempts were equally beautiful.

(Reddit/ChangingYang)

And others responded with sketches of Sophia.

(Reddit/emrythelion)

Steffel was clearly touched by the efforts.
"This is really amazing," he wrote on Reddit. "Everyone you have made my day. All I wanted was a nice picture. What I received was a lot of love and support from a bunch of strangers. A long with a lot of great photos, drawings and paintings. Thanks everyone!"

[Shorty]

This is really sweet.

I'm moving this o GC, I hope that's okay!

[jodymcdougle]

yeah that's fine. wasn't really sure which one to put it in.

[escobert]

aww it's always nice seeing people as a collective doing something nice for someone they don't know and probably never will. Gives you have a little hope for humanity.

[Aelitalily]

I did see this and I felt the same way. So sad and so beautiful at the same time :3

[Christmas]

Being human is a given, but keeping our humanity is a choice.

[Pumpkin]

I saw this yesterday. Its so great that they helped this man who is going through so much

[Pike]

I saw this earlier and thought it was really sweet

[Pheesh]

Wow, that's incredibly sweet. Also that first picture is just some amazing Photoshop work.