Short Glossary
Pantone® is a printer ink to ensure true colors on press.

.gif .png and .jpg are file types used on the internet. .png is the least lossy, Quality degrades precipitously with mulitple save-overs on many file types.

Vector images are scalable with no loss of quality also known as linework. Bitmap images follow the beetle rules at right. Not infinitely scaleable.

.pdf : portable document format developed by Adobe® for sharing files and archives of files.

html : hypertext markup language designed to inter-connect Universities - now makes us all hyper


Reverse type : limited use only please, see how hard this is to read?

 
 
 
 
An Explanation or two ... what's in a name. A Pixelmap is another word for the image that you see. In all media whether print or on-screen, it is composed of tiny pieces...thus my identity with a mosaic, and what I do is often pretty technical.

Can you fix it? Often yes. I fix things pixel by pixel when necessary, particularly for redeye.

Bitmap degradation on scaling up

The above demonstrates a good photo right, blown to unuseable proportions left. If it is a terrible source, it is very hard to fix.

2 photos become 1 with a lot of retouching

When you have a very large hard to move object that is about to ship out, I can still deal.

Photo and a lot of illustration

About to ship and plexiglass protection stays on! I drew in necessary details to show off the product. This can be called photo-rendering, where some part is real and the rest can follow. I love this kind of work.

Summer becomes winter for postcard image

This took a bit of doing, but worked well.

2 plates of 2 color printing

Pantone Orange 1505 and black. The dimensionality of the door was created from the 2 colors, 2 plates. The printer did a fantastic job of controlling alignment on press.

photo cleanup to direct the eye

Again, photography conditions are often not ideal but toning down the background achieved focus on what was important.

old photo enhanced for lighting conditions

Better, but still not what I saw that evening, Fred was glowing.

Christmas pugs

How funny that the pug friends lined themselves up, and that I was able to find the hats to fit their specific personality. Note the shadow mimicing flash behind.

New operator face

For demonstration purposes only, you would never know this my very alive friend and not a historical portrait.

Photo assemblage tools of the trade with motion effects

Some days it would seem as if things were flying around here.
 
Photo retouching, hand like icycle with falling drops

I finally caught a falling drop on one photo and the tiny one on a different photo. The hand icicle is the real shape, I altered colors to enhance translucency.

See an animated version on site map

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