Click on photo to return to home page.
Photo Retouching/Manipulation
Our background in traditional drawing and painting gives us an advantage in this area. We are artists (BFA, Art Institute of Chicago) who have acquired computer skills, as opposed to computer operators with little or no traditional art training.
Photo manipulation includes everything from retouching blemishes, color correcting and photo restoration, to creating entirely new images. We can solve many common problems such as changing a label adding or deleting a product feature or completely changing a color or a background.
Scroll down to see samples
The design was first worked out by traditional drawing on paper, then the final product created using new and existing photography, spliced together in Photoshop.
Instead, at far less trouble and expense, the result was achieved with clippings from catalogs which were then scanned, "dirtied", distorted, rotated and "piled up" on forty Photoshop layers.
The "pile", client product and a stock photo were then spliced together in Photoshop
(1)small flat products,
(2) three dimensional products and
(3) large products.
The shots were arranged in our offices and Polaroids taken.
The Polaroids were given to a commercial photographer who duplicated the Polaroids by tracing the images onto the viewing glass of an 8 x 10 studio camera. The three shots were then spliced together in Photoshop.