RETOUCHING

RETOUCHING SERVICES

SERVICES

  • Independently or additionally I offer professional creative retouching & compositing. It is my goal to change and optimize the characteristics of an image in order to create the maximum impact - I edit as little as possible but as much as the job requires. In doubt less is more. High End Retouching, Creative Retouching & Compositing of digital images from RAW files.

    • I accept all popular and latest RAW formats of different manufacturers

    • Canon, Nikon, Sony, Phase One, Hasselblad, Leaf, Leica, Panasonic and more…

    • digital image data processing, conversion in different formats (TIFF, PSD, JPEG, PNG,…)

    • Digital Asset Management (DAM)

    • Pre-Press conversion into CMYK formats

    • the image editing process is done on a calibrated Eizo monitor

CREATIVE RETOUCHING

Creative retouching involves enhancing images through various digital manipulation techniques. The objective of creative retouching is to deliver images that are visually pleasing, captivating, and inspiring. It can also remove flaws and imperfections from products, models, locations – or in this case – a hand model in order to focus on the product and provide the viewer with a more pleasing image which can result in better sales.

Before retouching, an image may be dull, ordinary, and lacking in substance. However, after retouching, the same image can become an instant eye-catcher, full of life, and packed with detail. Creative retouching is a powerful tool that brings a new perspective and adds value to images, making them more striking and memorable.

PHOTOSHOP COMPOSITES

I create complex composites with sometimes hundreds of layers from location stills, stock photos, images from our own library or from custom photo shoots with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects.

FINAL ARTWORK

The final artworks are created in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator for print or digital output. I also create final artworks for business cards, postcards, stationeries and film posters. See also Art Direction

RAW »DEVELOPMENT«

  • In those very simple examples you see the power of RAW images which contain much more information than it first seems. Imagine that the RAW file is like an analog negative filmstrip from which has to be »developed« in the lab and printed on paper in order to see its full potential.

  • There is much more flexibility in post-production when the images at a photo shoot will be generated in RAW format. Skies that seem »blown out« on the JPEG can be pulled back in the RAW file. Shadows that appear pitch black can suddenly be pushed to show some texture. The only thing to remember is that the photographer has to set his camera to RAW before the shoot - otherwise most cameras by default only produce JPEGs or TIFFs which hold far less information.

  • Even modern phones like the iPhone 13 Pro & 14 Pro are able to produce RAW images (called »Apple ProRaw«). They take the computational photography which is generated by the phone and »bake it« into the RAW file. If you want to learn more about retouching iPhone photos click here.

  • If you want to know more about RAW images you can learn the difference between RAW and JPEG images by clicking on the button below (external link).

    If you want to learn more about computational photography click the other button below (external link).

    Click on the images themselves to enlarge them and see the difference between a JPEG straight out of camera (SOOC) and the processed RAW file.