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My first problem was the very different lighting. The daughter pic was very bright with intense colors while the parent pic was not bright, not colorful and had shadows from a nearby light source. I scanned each picture at a very high resolution (300 dpi).

Using Paint Shop Pro, I did the following:
1. lowered brightness and contrast on daughter pic
2. lowered color intensity on daughter pic
3. increased brightness on parent pic
4. used the cloning tool to "paint" daughter into parent pic
5. used the cloning tool to refine the edges of painted daughter
6. used the sharpness tool to sharpen the new combined pic.

Of course, it took planning and trial & error to arrive at the final product. But it's alot of fun to be creative in this way.

Officials used video surveillance to scan images of fans as they passed through turnstiles to watch the Super Bowl last weekend.

Thousands of football fans were subjected to a "computerized police lineup" at America's biggest sporting event last weekend, as police used cutting-edge technology to scan the crowd for pickpockets and terrorists.

Like surveillance cameras in convenience stores, at cash-dispensing machines, ATMs, or on street corners, the cameras installed for the Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants captured images of people in a public place.

But unlike most video surveillance systems, which store the images on tape, the cameras were connected by cable to computers that scanned the images, instantly dissecting facial features and comparing them to a digital database of known criminals and terrorists.

Signs outside the stadium warned fans that they were under video surveillance, police said.

The video system, which uses biometric technology to compare facial features such as the size of a nose, the set of a brow, or the cut of a jaw, was offered to the Tampa Police Department by Graphco Technologies, a Pennsylvania-based database and "knowledge management" firm.

The test project compared images from the video cameras to a relatively small database of about 1,700 faces -- including crooks ranging from pickpockets to domestic terrorists -- assembled from FBI and police files.

Future uses would hopefully include larger databases of tens of thousands of criminals.