Peter Figen Online Upload & Sell: On
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A cast logo like that is really hard to remove and make it look like it was never there. I'm not sure I would say awful. More like a time consuming pain in the ass that you get to bill for.
Over the last fifteen years I've ended up doing a lot of complicated retouching jobs for companies like Honeywell, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Apria Healthcare just to name a few. A lot of times it's pretty straightforward, but every once in a while it's something like "Could you remove that bus stop bench behind the people and replace those two people with these from this frame?" or "Could you remove that name tag" that was on a shirt - a plaid shirt with contours over the body. Oh yeah, that was easy. After doing those two, which were for L.A. Metro, the art director told me over the phone something to the effect of "You know you can say no, that's impossible." For me, it's the challenge of doing something that they thought was impossible. Or another art director telling me "if it was easy, I'd have called someone else."
For the image is just getting started when it comes out of the camera. I remember watching a friend retouch an image for me in 1994 and I was mesmerized. When I started using Ps myself in January '95, it was something that just made sense and I followed the path of least resistance to where I am today.
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