If I have to say so myself, I make beautiful babies and, like most doting parents, I have hundreds of very special pictures of them. Unfortunately, I have "temporarily lost" many of my favorites :-( For Christmas of 2002, I gave myself a new scanner with a film/slide adaptor because I wanted to preserve some of these precious images. I scanned some really cute ones, spent hours cleaning them up and sent a few to my daughter, Rhonda (now 37!), a graphic designer in Chicago. She was so excited that she wanted me to send her all my pix and she would design a book for me. While busily scanning and "cleaning up" some of these images my hard drive failed.

I say "temporarily lost" because the images are still available but the work I'd done to restore them is lost and will have to be redone. To give some small idea of the work I will have to redo to restore them, I've included some examples of the images in their unrestored state. Thanx to members of Fujigroup.net, I learned how to use the "healing" and "patch" tools in photoshop. The photo of Rhonda, one of my "all time favorites", is the beneficiary of my new found proficiency.