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k.k.Martin

When taking photos of the band "A LA CARTE" I shot some ect solo shots of K.K.Martin for his up and coming
CD releses and Tour. The photo & botom text/artwork were placed together in InDesign before sending to the printer.
Cover of Magazine



Latest cover Nom de Plume 2010 Summer catalog. Three options were given to the client with of degree of photoshop work done. The header and text layout were put together in InDesign for the printer.

Cover of Magazine



Cover of the Nom de Plume 2010 Halloween catalog
shot with Canon digital camera. The other images in the backround were taken on location & composited
on a iMac in Photoshop for this cover.



I was commissioned by the former Sergio Vleté who was to start a new line of jeans "Sand". There was a big New York agency after this job but I beat them out not only on price but the fact that I could do all the work in house. I created the design and photography plus deliver all the digital work to the magazines. This is just one of the pages from the magazine publications, In which there were 12 in total in the US & South America.

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The header of Bizarre magazine was designed in illustrator to be super sharp, then a color gradient was applied, a drop shadow with bevel edges was also applied for the 3D result. (Illustrator is a vector graphics program for artwork were as photoshop is a bitmap graphics program for photographs) This assignment for Bizarre was a contract to design all the layouts and edit the magazine for 3 issues, it's a 114 page 4 color magazine. I also contributed photography inside & this exclusive cover shot of Julie Strain.

The Flash movie below demonstrates a very simple way to put the header behind the model's head on the cover of a magazine layout. Just cut the head out and make a new layer in Photoshp and then place it on top of the text or graphic layer.

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I am shooting in the studio for a new book insert chapter "How to shoot ring light images" and we can only find a blonde wig that will work for the shot. But the Art director would prefer to see a dark hair wig on Lana. So I changed the color in Photoshop®. That's how we do it! "Tips & Tricks"
Lana