Graphic restoration will clarify blurred images, enhance color and when teamed up with special effects such as cloning
and artist's-hand finish work, produces an incredible finished product. Below are various samples of restoration and enhancement techniques.

Graphic Enhancement and Artist's Hand

Graphic restoration is a combination of software techniques, computer graphic techniques and the artist's hand. The object is to
recreate the image, logo or photos to their original source quality. Too many conversions to an images looses quality and the
various "end output" can cause images to be blurred, wrong color rendition and complete absence of detail.

The following are the "Before and After" images using graphic restoration.

Before

After

Before

After

Stanford University: Coronary and Peripheral Atherectomy Procedure
(See Full Project in "Brochures" above)

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UC Medical Center, San Francisco: Enhanced imaging for artificial insemination of human fetal.
By enhancing the original fetal sonogram, Doctors can more easily see healthy growth process
or abnormalities that can save birth defects and foresee miscarriages. This also allows the woman to
decided how to continue with her artificial insemination program.

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The logo was also created in 2001 and there were no files or copies remaining from the original creation. As I
match the fonts, I noticed that the logo was made up of four different typefaces. This was probably done for
copyright infringement safety rather that for esthetics. Since the logo had been resampled so many times
the blurring cloaked the fonts. I restored the copyright by using the four original fonts. One of the letters
came from a font that is no longer in use, so I hand drew the letter to match. I drew a new graphic (the green image),
and added it to the type.

I convert the corrected file to several different formats so the client would have the proper quality for the venue
it was directed.

Please see the 3D page for the sculpture that was later created.

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Before

Several years back, I had been commissioned to create a resume/CD sample/self mailer for a singer to
use as a promotional piece to be sent to Agents for bookings. Years later, the client contacts me with the need
to show her Agent her original promotional piece to be used as a guide for a new promotional. All she had were the
color photo copies I gave her for proofing on the original job.

The client scanned the color copies, converted them into low resolution jpegs and emailed them to me. That makes
three major generation loss of quality. Since the Agent only needed a readable sample that showed the placement
of information and photos, and how it folds and holds the CD, we didn't have to do a full restoration or full remake.

I took the elements and resampled them to a high resolution, then separated all the images and copy except for
some parts where the copy ran over the photo. I then re-calibrated the images so that the least amount of pixelation
would appear in the final file conversion. I use highlights and cloning of areas to be dropped back in over areas that
I needed to replace copy. Some of the copy was retyped and some, like her name was retyped and overlaid on the existing
copy to clean up the old copy that was jagged.

I then placed the individual pieces together to create the folded final piece and used a very light shadow gradation over the
newly created pieces for shading. Remember, the request was just for sampling purpose not a finished product, so
it wasn't time/cost effective to make it look like a photograph of the piece. This is very important. I listen to my clients request
and their budget and give them what they ask for. And, I give them the option to go further if they so choose.
In an extreme makeover case, I would have created an entirely new file, redraw the graphics
and dropped in the old retouched photos. No over kill or under produce.

The final piece was calibrated for the end usage and had to hold quality while going through the email process
and a low resolution of 96 dpi for the web site.

After

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This client needed a brochure for her business and she wanted her photo to appear on the piece. The only recent photo she had was
from her vacation in Maui. The photos were lacking some polish for this particular project so some enhancement was needed.
To warm up and make friendly the background, the section of the Maui sky was cropped and enlarges from one of the photos.
The client's photo needed much work. It was cropped to eliminate the bareness of the clothing and the background was dropped out
and overlaid onto the Maui sky image. Then to clean up the straggled hair, hand drawn curls of hair were created and filled with cloned areas of the hair from the photo. This smoothed and filled out the presentation of the hair. A slight transparent mask was cut to fit over the face to to drop back the Maui humidity, but not too much since the client is promoting a healthy glow product.

The images and logo that the client had was from the parent website where she obtained her training and thus she had no clear
rendition of these elements. Even the parent company had issue with their imaging as well. This meant that the elements would
have to be redrawn by hand and some computer graphic techniques. Some of the elements regained their clarity by simply adding a
black line around the color area to give a crisp edge. Others had to be completely redrawn. Some originals were in black and white
or just outline and the client wanted full color. The client also wanted the skin color to be more "general" and to have more clothing
coverage, along with a knocked our background replaced with the look of foliage.