JB Photography and Creative Services
Welcome! I am a creative and technical writer, and have been working with Corel
Draw and PhotoPaint now for twelve years doing custom artwork and graphics
editing. I am also familiar with a variety of
other desktop layout packages and word processors and am an expert at Microsoft
Word.
I
do a lot of editing of digital
images of photographs and can shoot stills with my Canon EOS 300D for custom
projects as needed. I had
taken film and art design in
college so I have a background but am mostly self taught. One of my specialties is to take digital images such as the ones below,
crop out the good parts and make
images like the 'after' sample:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
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Electronic Cosmetic Surgery is what I call correcting blemishes and 'old age'
problems after the fact. In the
following sample a 14 year old Visla
has her spine defects corrected, her chin tucked and some color added
back to
her white mane, bringing her back close to her prime! The original image
was in a living room,
and the floor and background was causing her to 'wash out'
very badly, even though the image itself was not
of bad quality. A little
cropping, some touchup and it's ready to be inserted onto any standard lighting
scene!
I do this work mainly for enjoyment, but recently have begun accepting
clients and doing work for others. Since it IS part-time my
availability may vary for onsite work or photography sessions, but I can
normally manage a very quick turn-around for editing work
that can be submitted electronically. The price
varies depending on job, but can be as cheap as $30 for a
simple cut and paste
or quick blemish correction. I can even take the digital
images for you if you are in the Dallas area. I enjoy
it so I'm much
cheaper then many professional houses would be, and more likely to work with you
to obtain the 'correct' end result
you are interested in.
One neat skill I offer my clients is to take their lower resolution or "problem" images
and turn them into
paintings of the original subject
.. amazing results can be had in just an hour
or so if you are
willing to take this approach, for example the following of my mother, and
of some
lower res images super-imposed onto artwork based on a popular TV-Show:
The following image of a friend who is breaking into modeling was too low res
to use for headshots or glossy 8x10's but served as a wonderful
inspiration for the following artwork, and yes Kerie would be interested
if you want her for a project! Provide me your contact and details and I
will
be happy to forward any requests:
The following are samples of 'Digital costuming' where a face is superimposed
on different backgrounds or into various
scenarios that might not be possible in real life:
I can also do custom artwork in Corel PhotoPaint or CorelDraw, a vector-based
drawing package, the following are some examples of logos and artwork I have
created using those packages:
Here are a few additional samples of some
of my recent work. Each of these has at least THREE elements in them, the
background, the original master drawing and at least
one other - if you can't
tell which is which that's good! NOTE: some of
these are from 'stock
stills' so if you have a specific end goal in mind
we can stage and shoot with
specific lighting to achieve better results ...
Free-hand duplication from images:
Some of my original (5+ years old) CorelDraw Vector work:
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