Finally

I have procrastinated and procrastinated the finishing up of our family photo for numerous reasons, but finally decided it was time to tackle it.  First I had your mom select the one of the originals that was the best.  In case you don't know by now, when you get this many people together you will never get all of them looking good at the same time.  One of the biggest problems was that Hallie's face was hidden behind Megan in every single one that had the whole original group.  I have indicated some of the other problems on the images below.

NOTE:  You can see either one of these photos significantly larger by just clicking on it.

This is what we started out with.

 And this is about 6 hours later with me and Photoshop.

Was it worth it?

Yes there are still things I'd like to have different and better and I may rest up and tackle a few more things tomorrow, but believe it or not I'm tired and have a headache from this.  The most important thing is that I'm so grateful to finally have a family photo with everyone included even if it was a lot of work for everyone.  Thank you so much for everybody's help in making this happen.

Don't try to use this one for printing, it is too low of resolution.  Everyone will be getting a CD with every photo on it, obviously including this one in the maximum resolution that we have.