Mandy Helwege, the talent behind Seeing Double Edits, creates amazing portraits that combine a dog’s puppy and adult photos into one heartwarming image. It all started with her Great Dane, Elliott, and quickly turned into a popular service for pet owners who want to capture their dog’s journey.With years of art education and self-taught photography skills, Mandy carefully blends each picture using over 75 layers in Photoshop to make the images look as real as possible. She even works with stock photos for dogs that were rescued as adults, matching markings and features to imagine what they might have looked like as puppies. Mandy’s work has become so popular that she now has a waitlist that books months in advance, showing just how much people love her unique way of celebrating their furry friends.More info:Instagram|Facebook|seeingdoubleedits.comThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Mandy Helwege, the talent behind Seeing Double Edits, creates amazing portraits that combine a dog’s puppy and adult photos into one heartwarming image. It all started with her Great Dane, Elliott, and quickly turned into a popular service for pet owners who want to capture their dog’s journey.
With years of art education and self-taught photography skills, Mandy carefully blends each picture using over 75 layers in Photoshop to make the images look as real as possible. She even works with stock photos for dogs that were rescued as adults, matching markings and features to imagine what they might have looked like as puppies. Mandy’s work has become so popular that she now has a waitlist that books months in advance, showing just how much people love her unique way of celebrating their furry friends.
More info:Instagram|Facebook|seeingdoubleedits.com
This post may includeaffiliate links.
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To maintain her creative flow, especially when handling multiple commissions, Mandy has developed a structured weekly routine. “I’ve found doing things in blocks really helps keep my energy and flow in the right place. The first half of the week I spend communicating with clients, going through the photo selection process, putting together concept options and getting full resolution photos and approved mock-ups, while the second half of the week I spend finalizing edits!”
Regarding the tools and techniques essential to her work, Mandy admits, “I honestly don’t even feel qualified to answer this question, if you can believe it, because I am completely self-taught with Photoshop and likely don’t even use it to its full potential. I use the burn/dodge tool a lot to manipulate light and shadows as well as the color replacement tool to help get me on the right path to matching tones. And in Lightroom, I primarily use individual layer masks to bring the two together.”
Finally, Mandy offered advice to aspiring artists looking to blend their passion for animals with digital art, saying, “The advice I have would be to just start and try not to worry too much about where you may end up! I started doing these for fun for my own dogs almost seven years ago now and it’s grown over time into something I never could have imagined it would, especially for such a specific niche. But believe a lot of my growth has happened because I was doing it because I loved it and was passionate about it. I never started with the idea that it would become a successful business, I just wanted to play around with something I thought I might be kind of good at.”
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