A forensic artist who "age enhanced" an image of Madeleine McCann, the young girl who disappeared while on a family vacation in Portugal, needed to combine her knowledge of anatomy and forensics with a little bit of artistry.
"It’s not quite as straightforward as putting a whole bunch of photos in [a computer], pressing a few buttons and out it pops," Teri Blythe told CBC News in a phone interview from her U.K. home. "It's using the training I have, the experience I have and knowledge I have of how faces change. But it's also using the artistic side of it to actually manipulate photos into a new face."
Blythe was asked by the Metropolitan Police Service to create the image, which was made public ahead of Madeleine’s ninth birthday on May 12. Madeleine has been missing since she disappeared a few days before her fourth birthday from a holiday apartment at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007.
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