I agree that with some planning and minimal setup (pre-processing) the amount of time on post-processing can be dramatically decreased, and the final photos could be great.

I thought so as well. The picture could be called "Dog in Air"! But, it was a rough out and simply done to see how long and well the task could be done in Paint Shop Pro X4, which (due to cost and features) is my software of choice.

Clearly more time and effort can be put in to these pictures, but the penalty is additional time. I read the 100 pictures a week and thought to myself, that may take some time.

I use Paint Shop Pro X4 and I believe it i son sale now for about $40. Maybe someone can make a donation to the shelter of a <$100 photo editing software.

I spent about 5 minutes with your picture. Steps were:

1. object extractor
2. insert new layer and color blue (behind the dog!)
3. use erase to touch up areas around the dog.
4. use the soften brush to smooth out the edges of the dog.

Assuming 100 pictures a week and spending 5-10 minutes of processing, that is between 8-16 hours a week.

Here is a photo I took last summer from the top of the eye.

LOLcats and other funny animal pics weren’t born with the Internet; they’ve been around since the end of the 19th century. Here are some of the early photographs that inspired them.

Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/130968

The missed moment

David Burnett JUN 15

Forty years after the “napalm girl” picture changed the tide in the Vietnam war, a photographer who was there and missed capturing that image reflects on its power and on waiting for the moment.

http://tinyurl.com/6uxfudg or the original URL is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/forty-years-after-napalm-girl-picture-a-photographer-reflects-on-the-moment-that-might-have-been-his/2012/06/13/gJQAfoToeV_story.html