Retouching & Special Services

Experienced retouch artist Katie Deobald offers advanced retouching and digital art services to clients and photographers in Saskatoon and the surrounding area.

Big things are coming.

Hello Saskatoon!

While I am not resuming my photography just at the moment, I am now offering a variety of creative services. More details and new website content will be coming soon. Here’s the basic run down of what I will be available for:

– Retouching (Commercial, Portrait, Wedding, etc. You name it I’ve probably done a lot of it.)
– Digital Art (Whether you’re a photographer in need of a complicated composite or a creative in need of a book or album cover, I have a huge amount of expertise and can guarantee you the product will be 100% made by humans, end to end, absolutely NO generative AI.)
– Graphic Design (Need help defining your brand identity? Whether you need a logo, poster, brochure or just a simple logo and basic brand colour package, I’m happy to help.)
– Writing & Editing – (Need someone to write copy for your brochure, website or social media? I love finding just the right words to make your business shine, and again — All content is 100% written by a real live actual human being.)
– WordPress Help! (Looking for help setting up a wordpress site? I’ve been working with WordPress for over a decade and would be happy to help you on your website journey.)

Want to learn more? Head on over to my contact page and drop me a line!

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Wednesday Photoshop Experiment – Photo to CG.

Ever wonder what you would look like as an anime or game character? I can help you with that. I created this while playing around with an old image in Photoshop. Move your mouse over the image to see the before:

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I have found there is a very fine line when trying to change the shape or size of someone’s eyes. While a less realistic,”big eyed” look is possible, experiments have proven that making the eyes significantly larger only works well on images that have been shot with this effect in mind. With this image, I made changes to the shape of the mouth and nose to give the effect rather than mess with the integrity of the eyes, and I definitely prefer the result.

Of course the work done to this image was not just on the overall face shape. I put a lot of work into producing a more “CG” feel to the image. I call it the “Final Fantasy” effect as the idea was to create something that felt more like anime or video game art.

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