Most of the images we get are taken by amateurs, or shot under less than ideal circumstances. The client could send images like this to a professional photographer, but the cost would high, and it might take a while.

We routinely manipulate images, at a low cost, and do the work quickly.

As an example, we received an image from the National Empowerment Center of Dr. Daniel Fisher shaking hands with Senator Kennedy.

This is the original shot, taken with a cell phone. It’s a great image and luckily the resolution was high enough to give us plenty of flexibility. But there is a lot to distract you from the moment.

We manipulated the image and put a date on it.

This image has been posted to two of my client websites: National Empowerment Center, and
National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations.

This image had all the ingredients for an excellent group shot to be used on a corporate website. But there was one problem, was it OK to show someone holding a beer?

We tried to Photoshop the beer to make it look like something else, but it would have been too time consuming. Instead, we used the “content aware” tool in Photoshop to remove the persons arm holding the beer 🙂     Note that the leather couch behind looks normal.