Image Manipulation

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, I 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.

I 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?

I tried to Photoshop the beer to make it look like something else, but realized it would have been too time consuming ($). Instead, I used the "content aware" tool in Photoshop to remove the persons arm holding the beer 🙂 Note that the leather couch behind looks normal.