Before & After Comparisons
Background Image
Distorted Typeface
Background Image
I Found You
Created distorted Type with water droplet distortion
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Original Photo
Type removed plus various retouching
Embossed gold foil effect added
Original Photo
Give War and Peace A Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
Created embossed gold foil effect
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Original image with muddy water
Use hue/saturation in Photoshop to change muddy color. This will serve as a base to add clear water.
Final touch up and color adjustments.
Original image with muddy water
The Emerald Mile
The main goal was to make the muddy water look like clear water.
Main retoucher: Dolores Zorreguieta
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Love, Life, and Elephants
Hand coloring of old b/w photo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Every Friday Night
A daytime stockimage is changed to night shot featuring a manhattan skyline that I shot on the roof of my apartment building.
Publisher: Doubleday
What They Want
The original cover was deemed too sexy for certain markets, so I was asked to add clothing to the shot. I found a model with similar physique, and have my photographer shot it in similar angle and light. Quite a bit of retouching was needed to match up the 2 shots.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster