Adrian is discovering the wonderful world of image editing.

He knows that photos can be “photoshopped” and has seen enough examples online. Today he discovered how that actually works.

One of the games on our PlayStation that we play together is called Ultimate Chicken Horse. It’s a multi-player platform game where you build the level together, as you go. The player characters are animals – a chicken, a horse, a sheep, a raccoon etc. To me the name of the game sounded like a chimerical animal, half chicken, half horse. When Ingrid heard that she made a chicken horse for me in ibis Paint, which she otherwise uses to draw anime-style pictures.

Adrian was impressed and wanted to learn how to make images like that. Today Ingrid gave him a quick intro to ibis Paint and showed him how to import pictures into layers, and erase part of a layer to make another layer visible. He was mesmerized and proceeded to create a chicken-headed, tentacled superhero out of parts he found in Google Image Search.