Top Chef and the Free Desserts

Last month I worked with the good folks at Arsonal, www.arsonalla.com, to create the final artwork promoting Bravo’s new cooking show, “Top Chef Just Desserts”. In addition to the usual magazine ads this campaign entailed a tie-in with the current...

Dumplings and D.A. Wagner

I became a fan of D.A. Wagner’s work when I came across his website last year. Balancing deliberation and spontaneity with great concepts D.A. creates some fantastic still life images of food. To see for yourself just take a quick visit to his website here:...

What’s the most important skill for a retoucher?

In reading various blogs and articles by and about retouchers I see lots of folks focus on the dramatic before/afters as proof of a particular retoucher’s skill.Sure, that can be pretty impressive. But on some level that seems like we’re focusing on the...

Betty White is Hot In Cleveland

Recently I had the pleasure of working with Brad Johnson and all the great folks at Arsonal Design in Los Angeles creating images for the ad campaign promoting TV Land’s latest new show “Hot In Cleveland.” With three women featuring long, wind-blown...

The Last Airbender

Next week the ‘other Avatar’ movie, “The Last Airbender”, is due out hoping for a big debut weekend. Here in Los Angeles one of the local ad agencies I work with, BLT & Associates (www.bltomato.com), did a great job with the print campaign...
Shadow Work

Shadow Work

A recent discussion on ASMP’s email list touched on creating realistic shadows so I thought I’d post a quick tip here describing one of my favorite ways of creating realistic shadows when creating composited images in Photoshop.The most important things to...