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Posted by Karen on Sep 21, 2012

Macro Beauty Retouch

Here’s a quick peek at my latest retouch – a macro beauty retouch with the focus on skin work. The original photo is courtesy of Dublin-base photographer, Kyle Tunney. Here’s the before and after (rollover/click to view the original image). By the way, the rollover is buggy....

Posted by Karen on Aug 26, 2012

Paint with Ice Tutorial

A while ago I was approached by a design magazine to create a tutorial for them. The result was this: The aim of the tutorial was to demonstrate how to use the little used “Apply Image” dialogue box to even out lights and shadows on skin (it’s a really nice retouching technique), and to show how you can create brushes to paint with some nice effects, an ice effect in this...

Posted by Karen on Jun 22, 2011

Just doodling…

When I have free time I attempt to something with the Advanced Photoshop free monthly competition images… Here’s my ode to Photoshop’s little used split blending sliders. (I’m a nerd, can you...

Posted by Karen on Jun 1, 2011

Retouching skin to retain texture

In the world of beauty retouching, there are many methods retouchers use to get flawless skin. The aim of great retouching is to make the subject of the image look like he or she hasn’t been retouched at all. Most importantly, this refers to keeping the skin texture intact. Because images can vary vastly it’s helpful to have a number of techniques under your belt so you can pick and choose...

Posted by Karen on Apr 28, 2011

Advanced Photoshop magazine: I’ve been published, yay :)

Here’s a quick pic of the two Advanced Photoshop magazines I’ve been published in (issues 47 and 61). I’ll be uploading more soon… Update: Thanks Advanced Photoshop – they published my Niyo design again for their readers gallery section. A full pager. You can see it on page 9 of issue...

Posted by Karen on Apr 21, 2011

Concept art

Here’s the latest card available for an upcoming strategy card game. More to come soon…

Posted by Karen on Apr 18, 2011

Concept art for strategy card game

I’m currently working on a very exciting project for an upcoming strategy card game. A website is in the process of being set up for it, so I’ll direct you to that when it’s done – it will explain everything. In the mean time, here’s a quick teaser of the artwork to...

Posted by Karen on Oct 30, 2010

American Chopper Artwork

A while ago I was commissioned to create some artwork for the Discovery Channel show “American Chopper”. This was one of the nicest projects I’ve had to work on recently so I thought I’d share the final result with you. The final project consisted of: 2 “digipacks” each consisting of 4 DVDs, with corresponding cover designs for each DVD onbody and outer-slipcases a...