This is the final retouched image. Retouching airbrush art was much harder than I'd anticipated as there are so many rolling gradients everywhere, it's not easy to find a good cloning source. There were other pieces to fix as well: working from a printed piece as opposed to the original art, paint giving off reflections when photographed etc. etc. Give me a shout if you want to hear more about any aspect of the assembly required for the book – technical or editorial.
5 comments:
Norman, these retouch step-by-step posts are invaluable! i can't imagine what they did pre-photoshop to get these results... seems they would've had to work on the image itself...
-mia
Well with that particular image it wouldn't have been possible.
Good separators could correct color casts, but not much else without considerable expense - dot etching, or making dupe transparencies or prints and hand retouching with dyes and/or paint.
But Overspray gives a pretty accurate portrayal of what the art was intended to look like.
Wow Norm! So I just sat down and read through all your blog posts thus far, and I am truly impressed! Top notch stuff here! Keep 'em coming!
Can't wait for my copy of the book to arrive!
;-)
oh, so you visited the picturebox site then?
Really good.
Regards,
SBL Graphics
SBL image retouchig
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