Testimonials
"It is a pleasure working with the folks at Winter Orchard ... Always attentive and include all details right at the first shot."
- Ilana Ben Harav
"Eric and Barbara bring enthusiasm, energy, and a spirit of collaboration to their design work. I was extremely pleased with their professionalism and the unique level of artistic talent demonstrated in producing my photography website. It is visually engaging and user-friendly. With their combination of graphic design background and computer savvy, they provide the perfect skill set for web design at an affordable price. Without reservation, I would recommend Winter Orchard Graphic Design."
- Margaret DaRos
Scorpio Rising Photography
"Look the word 'easy' up in the thesaurus and there you’ll find every word possible to describe how it was to work with Eric and Barbara at Winter Orchard. Leon and I had been putting off the website because of the time we thought it would take. We were pleasantly surprised to learn just how easy it was. We highly recommend Winter Orchard Graphic Design; and are so pleased with our Website."
- Kelly and Leon Vaillancourt
Vaillancourt Builders, LLC
"I am very pleased with your web design and the conversion from my old website to the new. I especially appreciated your sensitivity to my visual and artistic 'demands.' I have had, almost daily, compliments on my new website. As I am a self taught computer person, and computer illiterate in those terms your tutelage was very much appreciated! This conversion went so much more easily than I ever expected - thank you"
- Suzy Verrier
North Creek Farm
"Winter Orchard Graphic Design took my ideas and quickly designed and built a professional website for my business. I couldn't be happier!"
- Joe Jose
Linekin Bay Woodworkers
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Photo Retouching
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We do all kinds of retouching work with pictures. Everything from a simple clean-up to a “glamour-type” of photo for portraits, to an all-out manipulation of the picture- like something you might see in a magazine. We also do color correction, can sharpen photos, and turn color photos to black and white or even sepia tone. If you want something specifically done, ask us. We can probably do it.
Pulled dancer out of original background. Smoothed skin on face, neck and body, created shadow and then composite background from other stock photos and added titles for her brochure.
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Pulled dancer out of original background. Smoothed skin on face and softened shadows on face and body. So that it appeared that she had more costumes, the whole color of her costume was changed from red to burgundy-purple. The toes of her foot at the bottom of the picture were painted in and titles were added for her brochure.
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Pulled out subject from original background. Smoothed skin on face and body. Painted out imperfections in skin. Softened features in face. Repainted in eyes to give more presence and whitened reflections to give more sparkle.
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Created mysterious misty background. Sharpened original photo, redefined eyes, mouth, lips. Turned color photo to black and white and then re-colorized photo to shades of grey and pink to match brochure background. Painted in photo over misty background to give the effect of the photo coming out of the fog and painted in the shadow of the fingers in the hand on the curtain. Added titles.
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This client had many photos that she wanted retouched for possible video covers.
The original photos were of very low quality, small size and taken from video stills.
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De-interlaced the picture, evened out her skin, re-defined lips, re-defined eyes and added in reflections to eye.
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De-interlaced the picture, evened skin tone, took away shadows from skin and neck, re-defined lips and added subtle shine, re-painted in eyes, including light reflection.
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De-interlaced picture, evened skin tone, smoothed arm, took away line from her body stocking, painted in eyes, re-defined teeth and lips.
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De-interlaced picture, smoothed skin and lessened shadows, re-painted eyes and light reflections, enhanced a subtle lens flare on lower edge of costume.
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Enhanced face to make it “pop” more, re-defined lips and eyes, painted out annoying reflections of the veil on the face, enhanced the blue of the veil, added in titles.
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The final is a composite between two pictures. I liked the camera position of the hands in one and the facial expression of the other. So I made a composite of both pictures, taking body, arms and hands from one and neck and head from the other. Both pictures were de-interlaced first then composited. Afterwards I smoothed the skin, de-emphasized shadows around the face and eyes, re-touched eyes, and then for fun elongated her and took off a few pounds.
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