Corey Van Zandt

My niece helps my Mom with the desert making at Christmas every year and a good opportunity came up to make her a nice photo for her hard work.  My mom took this photo with her phone camera so it  was not the best quality, but I figured I could toy with it and make it in to something memorable.  I used Photoshop 5 to do so.  I knew I wanted a white background to symbolize winter and I also wanted to erase the cabinets in the background.  I decided to use a star shaped brush to mask the unwanted area and trimmed out a candy cane frame I found on the internet.  I also cut out some pictures of random Christmas cookies I found as well.  I thought the font I chose added to the time of the season.