“Seeing Double Edits”: 20 Animals Meet Their Puppy Selves In Adorable Photo Edits, By This Artist
Interview With ArtistMandy 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.
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I've got three of my own to share, if that's okay! First is my German Shepherd Ember, who was my heart-dog. She is about 6 months old in the left-hand photo, and 12 years old in the right-hand photo. She was my everything, my love, my best friend <3 She has been gone lo these many years, but I still miss her. This is a good example of how much a dog's fur can change over their lifetime XD She wasn't "black and tan", she was "cream and silver" (dilute gene) but she'd lost pretty much all of her markings by the time she was 12 XD She developed mammary tumors in 2010 and I had to euthanize her. ember_pup_...631c37.jpg
Here is Stilgar, who many of my fellow Pandas know well! He is a German Shepherd x Kuchi Dog (a livestock guardian breed). In the left-hand photos, he is 9 days old. In the right-hand pic, he is two years old. He lost pretty much ALL of his puppy markings! XD He is about 65 lbs now; he should probably have weighed at least 100 lbs, but he had distemper as a puppy -- the litter was probably already infected when I met them :( -- and the virus caused a lot of physical issues for Stilly. He's definitely undermuscled/underweight for his size, but he is as healthy as he *can* be and our vet is happy with his weight :) stilly_fro...ce1123.jpg
How can you not fall in love with every one of them - young and older? I'd take all of them home and give them tummy tickles.
I've got three of my own to share, if that's okay! First is my German Shepherd Ember, who was my heart-dog. She is about 6 months old in the left-hand photo, and 12 years old in the right-hand photo. She was my everything, my love, my best friend <3 She has been gone lo these many years, but I still miss her. This is a good example of how much a dog's fur can change over their lifetime XD She wasn't "black and tan", she was "cream and silver" (dilute gene) but she'd lost pretty much all of her markings by the time she was 12 XD She developed mammary tumors in 2010 and I had to euthanize her. ember_pup_...631c37.jpg
Here is Stilgar, who many of my fellow Pandas know well! He is a German Shepherd x Kuchi Dog (a livestock guardian breed). In the left-hand photos, he is 9 days old. In the right-hand pic, he is two years old. He lost pretty much ALL of his puppy markings! XD He is about 65 lbs now; he should probably have weighed at least 100 lbs, but he had distemper as a puppy -- the litter was probably already infected when I met them :( -- and the virus caused a lot of physical issues for Stilly. He's definitely undermuscled/underweight for his size, but he is as healthy as he *can* be and our vet is happy with his weight :) stilly_fro...ce1123.jpg
How can you not fall in love with every one of them - young and older? I'd take all of them home and give them tummy tickles.
