Makin’ it Real

Makin’ it Real

How do you photograph a line of custom shoes before any have been made? Last Fall Nike partnered with Pendleton Woolen Mills to create a line of custom shoes to be featured on their NikeID website. The only trouble was since these were custom shoes, none of the them...
X-Men Character Poster

X-Men Character Poster

I love working on movie posters! There is something cool about working on a campaign for a big block buster movie like the latest chapter in the X-Men series. Last Spring I had the pleasure of working on this character poster featuring the young and old Magneto for...
Relaxed Glamour

Relaxed Glamour

Relaxed glamour should look effortless. But we all know true glamour takes work.So when Dallas based photographer Stewart Cohen, who creates some wonderfully glamorous shots, needed someone to add a touch of Photoshop Magic to make this image look effortless he called...
16 bits to the Rescue!

16 bits to the Rescue!

Ask any retoucher what their number one arch nemesis is and they’ll probably say “Banding”! You know them, those curving lines separating each band of color as the tones go from light to dark. These bands are caused when each step in color stands...
Naami Mohamed with Rick Rose

Naami Mohamed with Rick Rose

  Bringing out the best in a Beauty shot like this calls for keeping the retouching work subtle. The trick is to strike the right balance between perfect and human. And this demands paying careful attention to make sure the skin keeps that natural texture while...
She's Alive! with David Zaitz

She's Alive! with David Zaitz

When David Zaitz got the assignment from Dailey Advertising to create some photos for an upcoming campaign featuring Alive Multi-Vitamins he knew he’d need a little extra magic to get just the image he envisioned. And that was when he called me. The idea behind...