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BUDAPEST, Hungary — A self-taught photographer in Hungary is using her technical skills to help homeless dogs get adopted across the world.
Sarolta Bán, a photographer known for her beautiful landscapes with dream-like features, is on a mission to put abandoned dogs in their own beautiful photos using her unique Photoshop style for a project called "Help Dogs with Images."
“Abandoned dogs, sadly, have really few chances to appear on a photo that will help them get out of the shelter. A photo that stands out from the crowd, and 'speaks' to a person,” Bán wrote on the project's Facebook page. “I would really like to help sheltered animals and for sure a good picture can be worth a thousand words.”
Bán is asking her hundreds of thousands of Facebook fans to submit pictures of animals that need a home so she can create a photo montage with them, and hopefully help connect them to their future owner.
"There is a (low chance) for shelter animals to get adopted because they get little visibility," Bán told The Huffington Post in an email. "That's why it's a really great idea that everybody can be a hero with a single iPhone if they take a picture of a shelter dog, and upload it to the Internet."
She has already received images from around the world, including the U.S., Spain and Argentina. Users can submit their own high-resolution photos here.
Ban told Yahoo that she layers as many as 100 images to create a final product.
The project ends on April 13 and anyone who adopts a pet from the project will receive a signed photo of their animal from Ban.
To view the complete gallery, visit her website here.
