Rick Whitmore is a Los Angeles based artist and designer.  As well as his personal creative work, he has worked full-time for

well over two decades as a high-end digital retoucher and color specialist. In this capacity he has been called upon to:

› Execute highly detailed retouching and color manipulation on countless images of models, celebrities, automobiles, any product imaginable.

› Retouch/illustrate to extend and create new sections of art and graphics to fill compositions, matching diverse styles of original art from various sources

› Compose pieces from numerous sources into 1) single images for media boxes, posters, billboards, etc. 2) images of people from various

body parts and clothing 3) large landscape backdrops from random parts 4) countless other variations.

› Create high res builds from rough low res design fpo’s for all manner of entertainment industry graphics, packaging and display.
› Do CMYK conversions from complexly layered supplied RGB files. Work extensively in both CMYK and RGB environments.
› Create effects on still images, such as burning buildings, explosions, making day-time images into night-time images, changing the lighting on objects, etc.
› Create attractive, detailed high resolution images to be viewed large-scale from otherwise unusable low resolution supplied files.

› Reconstruct highly damaged antique photo images (as well as many newer ones that had accidents!)
› Be responsible for critical color match on files for innumerable ad campaigns.

› Basically be available to meet any still digital imaging challenge that would present itself, far too many over the years to list

This site is a portfolio of samples of some of that work.

the retouching and color

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