Best retouchers World has to offer?

SteveB2005 · #46 09-19-2007, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by cricket1961

"Nucleus?"

John Rosen's Company? Hmmm. I'd be surprised.
No it is an offshoot of Coloredge. The salesman broke off and took a bunch
of retouchers with him. AMong the clients were Steve and Annie and some other large catalogue work. Damn. I need to check my books when I get home. I have the name on some of my invoices.

Steve

Meisel is extremely reclusive. He rarely if ever leaves his studio/apt.
In fact, for one job I had to go there with the salesman in order to know what he wanted. Very different. At least for me.
Check out my website. Thee is a list of everyone there(nearly complete) that I have worked with. Right now I am doing another image for Michael Thompson.

I love Avedon's work and would have loved to work with him also. I have doen some work with one of his contemporaries, Melvin Sokolsky. And had an opportunity (hopefully still) to work with one of the last greats around, Hiro. That I would jump at the chance to do.

Chris

Chris, since you have worked with Steven Meisel, I finally found a video link on youtube from the 80's on an actual photo shoot. He looks like he is having fun with the models, he almost resembles Alice Cooper in the eye makeup dept, haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1FFKCkkfk4

steve

cricket1961 · #47 09-19-2007, 02:02 PM

Oh yeah. He has a REAL eccentric look.

Rydiant · #48 09-30-2007, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveB2005

I don't know who the best retouchers are, but I did have a video of a retoucher working on photos of Cindy Crawford, for the cover of Cosmo, I think shot by the late, great Scavullo. This was back in the Scitex days and the operator was working from a printer's proof where the art director redlined everything to fix, although the image and lighting were great out of the camera. The files were sent to the retouching house located in Tenn from NYC

Steve,

I think we've seen the same thing. I taped a segment of a show called Behind Closed Doors, a late 90s-early 2000s show on A&E hosted by Joan Lunden. I think the company was called NEC, not to be confused with the Japanese electronics company. The retoucher worked on what appeared to be a Scitex Blaze system. It seems to be a Blaze given the the only visual reference to the system I've seen online, presented by the guy who designed its interface. Check it out: http://www.rozin.com/insideout/proje...opup.asp?id=31.

Man, I love seeing those proprietary systems.

Back to the thread...

zganie · #49 09-30-2007, 05:10 AM

I dont know if anyone read the article in july and august PDN magazine it was on the best retouchers in the world.Someone told me about it did not get a chance to see it so it would be interesting to see the list of names if anyone has them

zganie

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SteveB2005 · #51 10-03-2007, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Rydiant

Steve,

I think we've seen the same thing. I taped a segment of a show called Behind Closed Doors, a late 90s-early 2000s show on A&E hosted by Joan Lunden. I think the company was called NEC, not to be confused with the Japanese electronics company. The retoucher worked on what appeared to be a Scitex Blaze system. It seems to be a Blaze given the the only visual reference to the system I've seen online, presented by the guy who designed its interface. Check it out: http://www.rozin.com/insideout/proje...opup.asp?id=31.

Man, I love seeing those proprietary systems.

Back to the thread...

Yep, same show with Joan Lunden. I lost the video, but it certainly was a Scitex system. Now of course, a fast Mac/PC and Photoshop CS 2-3 can basically do the same high end retouching and probably more than the early and very expensive Scitex systems could produce. Back then, Scitex operators could bill $300-500 per hour for high end retouching for pre-press. Man, I wish I could find that video. Learned a few tips from a real pro. Interesting stuff
steve

pixelzombie · #52 10-03-2007, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveB2005

Now of course, a fast Mac/PC and Photoshop CS 2-3 can basically do the same high end retouching and probably more than the early and very expensive Scitex systems could produce.
steve

the one thing i have yet to reproduce, is to place a vector logo over a bitmapped image and then mask the image so the vector logo goes inbetween a persons heads and the background...i can do this in photoshop, but i have yet to find a RIP that can handle such a file...

BodegaGo · #53 10-03-2007, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by zganie

I dont know if anyone read the article in july and august PDN magazine it was on the best retouchers in the world.Someone told me about it did not get a chance to see it so it would be interesting to see the list of names if anyone has them

zganie

PDN July 2007 the top retouching studios featured:

1. Procolor (singapore) www.procolor.com.sg
2. Remix Studios Bangkok (thailand) www.remixstudiobangkok.com
3. Royal Post Club (germany) www.royalpostclub.de
4. The Living Room (belgium) www.thelivingroom.be
5. Rocket Studios (california) www.rocketart.com
6. Rob Frew (johannesburg) no website listing

apparently this feature is part 2 of 2, so if someone has a June 2007 issue and could post that'd be nice. someone seems to have walked off with ours

superkoax · #54 10-03-2007, 04:31 PM

I googled him and fount rob frew here...

http://adsoftheworld.com/search/node/rob+frew

don't know how old these ads are...

gerry

dvaught · #55 10-03-2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pixelzombie

the one thing i have yet to reproduce, is to place a vector logo over a bitmapped image and then mask the image so the vector logo goes inbetween a persons heads and the background...i can do this in photoshop, but i have yet to find a RIP that can handle such a file...

Send me an example (even a jpg) of what you are trying to achieve and I can probably help you out. david@vaughtstudio.com

pixelzombie · #56 10-03-2007, 10:07 PM

i can reproduce it in photoshop, the problem is trying to get it to film...the file chokes when it gets to the RIP...

dvaught · #57 10-03-2007, 10:14 PM

Send me a file and i can help you with it. Trust me.

cricket1961 · #58 10-04-2007, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by pixelzombie

the one thing i have yet to reproduce, is to place a vector logo over a bitmapped image and then mask the image so the vector logo goes inbetween a persons heads and the background...i can do this in photoshop, but i have yet to find a RIP that can handle such a file...

Should work saved out as a eps file with vector clicked on in the save dialog.
This has worked for me numerouse times in the past.

Chris

pixelzombie · #59 10-04-2007, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by cricket1961

Should work saved out as a eps file with vector clicked on in the save dialog.
This has worked for me numerouse times in the past.

Chris

yup, but i have yet to get past the rip with this kind of file...

KR1156 · #60 10-04-2007, 08:49 AM

we used to do a lot of work for KOOL, and a lot of our packaging and advertising art consisted of a bunch of vector art incorporated into the Photoshop file...one of our vendors, fuel digital, couldn't handle the files output bc of their RIP.....they had to export some of these complex vector pieces into illustartor and quark (at the time) it was funny.....that's a lot of work!! man they prob hated us!!