POSTERSDISPLAYS IDENTITY/LOGOBRANDING OFFSET/DIGITALPRINTING VIDEO/WEBTHUMBNAILS VEHICLELETTERING CARVED/VINYLSIGNS RETOUCHINGCOMPOSITING RENDERING/DRAFTING

Always an Original.

Working with bitmap and raster images is part of our daily work. Generally we design everything we do in vector based graphics. Vector based images are resolution independent which means their quality is only limited by the resolution of the device creating the image. Vectors are the only real choice for machining, carving or cutting. Bitmap images or digital photographs are pixel based and their quality is limited by the number of pixels the CCD in the digital camera was able to capture. With ever increasing camera resolutions it became possible to do amazing things with digital photographs. The images below are just a few of our attempts to colorize photographs 15 years ago to match written descriptions and actual small, aged physical artifacts. The latest software and Artificial Intelligence programs appear to making the old hand colorizing method obsolete. In fact we are now able to animate and colorize a still image with AI, amazing! The vintage photographs we repaired below required quite a bit of work and time 15 years ago. Today AI can make it a simple process of online drag and drop. No skill, Photoshop or software required! The final image of the Cavalry with the train is one of the very few totally composite images we have done. The entire work is pieced together from public domain images. Even the faces of the soldiers are unique to this image. We do composite work all the time but rarely like this image. You will see the process lightly applied in our posters and mast heads. We do them rarely and lightly because we strongly believe in protecting the IP or intellectual property of artists and photographers. Even changing a little of another artists work matters. We know how it feels to have our art stolen, profited from, torn apart, changed and rearranged. We do heavily use composite imaging in our architectural renderings at Shedwrights. We frequently place our architectural models with or attached to other real world property to show a client how their addition, alteration, renovation or building will look on their property. The photographs we use are either our own or the clients.

PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE RETOUCHING, REPAIR & COMPOSITING