Father asks internet to edit the only photos he has of dying baby daughter

[King Gizzard]

See...the internet/and forums aren't all bad...



'You have made my day' - Father asks internet to edit the only photos he has of dying baby daughter

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A father has been overwhelmed by internet users' responses to his request for someone to digitally remove the medical tubes from the only photographs he has of his late baby daughter Sophia.

Nathan Steffel's appeal, posted to Reddit at the weekend, read: "My daughter recently passed away after a long battle in the children's hospital. Since she was in the hospital her whole life we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes. Can someone remove the tubes from this photo?"

The Ohio father did not anticipate the speed, scale and generosity of the response.

The highest-rated reply, posted by Reddit user Funkybrewster, came with the comment: "This is super late but I really wanted to help out too. Here's my attempt. I hope I didn't overdo it on the color correction."

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Reddit user Funkybrewster removed the tubes from the photo and altered the colours. Credit: Imgur / Funkybrewster

Another popular post, by ChangingYang, said: "I did a paint over for you (painting over the photo itself). I took some liberties with the color, and background."

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ChangingYang added a paint effect to the image. Credit: Imgur / ChangingYang

Responding to the amount and quality of digitally-enhanced pictures he received, the Nathan Steffel said: "This is really amazing. Everyone you have made my day.

"All I wanted was a nice picture. What I received was a lot of love and support from a bunch of strangers. A long with a lot of great photos, drawings and paintings. Thanks everyone!"

One Redditor produced this more natural-looking version of the picture.

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Imgur user jloooong posted a more natural-looking version of the picture. Credit: jloooong / imgur

Redditor Izzyzzi even drew an original sketch of the baby.

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Another Reddit user even produced an original sketch. Credit: Reddit / Allonsybadwolf

In another post, Mr Steffel concluded: "I just wanted a picture and what I received was a lot of wonderful drawings and pictures. I couldn't be happier."

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-07-16/you-have-made-my-day-father-asks-internet-to-edit-the-only-photos-he-has-of-late-baby-daughter/

[Pete.]

iconic :clap1:

[MeMyselfAndI]

thats really sweet :love:
& sad :(

[Josy]

Omg :sad:

Little things like this restore my faith in humanity

[King Gizzard]

Nice to see reddit/other sites getting good coverage for a change and not just all the bad stuff about trolls etc etc

[Natalie.]

That's nice of them

[Kizzy]

Omg :sad:

Little things like this restore my faith in humanity

I was thinking the same.

[Cal.]

this is absolute just..

i can't even at how lovely and heart wrenching this is at the same time :(

[Kazanne]

Made me tear up a bit,how lovely,people like this make up for the nutters in the world.lovely,lovely bitter sweet story.

[Z]

Beautiful :)

[Shaun]

that's so sad :( but yeah Reddit do have quite a few good turns now and then. Just the angry 4chan-like lot that get the most coverage.

[mooo]

So sad at least he has those photos now x

[Ammi]

..how beautiful she was...:lovedup:..and people are quite amazing, most people are but if you expect people to be not great then that's quite often what you look for and see...

[Vanessa]

Awwww! This is so sad! :bawling::bawling:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Heartbreaking. Not sure if this will be more painful for the parents as time goes on-pondering on what could have been.

[GypsyGoth]

:sad: