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Retouching

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Hummingbird picture used as a basis for a pastel chalk drawing by artist Virginia Kynast.

Image selected as cover for coffee table book "Water Garden Lifestyles".

Two new Websites for local businesses released by spallek.com: K. P. Soergel & Associates, Inc. and Tammy's School of Dance

Kids Web magazine Issue 45 published

Heiko Spallek among the 2006 and 2007 Aquascape Photo Contest winners: First Place and a honorable mention for People and Ponds and two honorable mentions in the category Pets and Ponds as well as a second place in 2007.

New travel journal Websites released: Southeast Alaska, Galapagos Islands, Crete 2006 and Florida

Heiko Spallek presented as featured photographer on PhotoSig's homepage on 10/2/2007

How to salvage the not so perfect shot?

Many images you can see in glamour magazines, newspapers, journals, on the Web and on TV started out as rather ordinary pictures. However, most of them were processed by experienced professionals under supervision of art directors who applied their vision and expectations to the source material to produce a stunning visual display.

Many shots coming out of your camera are not so much different from the pictures these magazines started out with. However, in most instances you lack the experience, time or technical means to transfer them to great pictures. Our various retouching services will help you converting ordinary shots into stunning visual displays of your creativity.

Color correction can, for instance, fix odd color shift when using daylight film or daylight settings on a digital camera when shooting indoor, or add color where there was no color before. Examples on these pages will show you what we can do with your pictures.

Vignetting can be used to focus the observer's eye onto the main subject and away from unimportant image elements.

Re-compositioning group pictures can help to make the perfect group shot.

Sharpening can improve the final appearance of almost all images specific for their intended use.

Exposure corrections allow us to change the exposure of an entire image or of certain areas; or we can restrict the brightness changes to certain brightness levels.

Removing blemishes and other unwanted image elements allow us to fix many problems and improve your portraits in a way that everybody will love them.

We provide a wide array of input sources and output options.

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