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Digital Retouching & Manipulation Studio Franco. Eastbourne and Cape Town
Got an old photo you want revived? Want to compose an image out of several
elements?
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At Studio Franco Design - I specialize in image enhancement, color correction,
photo montage, photo compositing and photo retouching.
I include 'Examples of Everything', because of the varied requests I have
received.
As well as visual puns.
Such as "Etaoin Shrdlu". Etaoin Shrdlu is the approximate order of frequency
of the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language. A combination
of letters set by running a finger down the first, and then the second
left-hand vertical banks of six keys of a Linotype machine, to produce
a temporary marking slug, not intended to appear in the final printing.
The first Delegation of the Vexvelt Vasche arrive on the Planet to meet
with World Governments.
Elements = Countless
Personal indulgence: From Jimi Hendrix -
"All Along the Watch Tower"
#vaschevexvelt, #vasche, #vexvelt
Elements = 4: Photo - Donna on beach with violin
Fire on violin. Landing ship. Background
Personal indulgence: Donna on Sirius.
"Mobs that are law-less and left wing fa-na-tics
Lu-na-tic frin-gers who build bombs in at-tics
Is-lam-ic zea-lots de-mand time on TV
These are just some of my Favorite Things . . ."
(From Julie Andrews' "Favorite Things" 1965)
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Manipulated photographs.
Elements = 1: Personal photography.
Digital manipulation to enhance 'the Black's'.
Promo-art for photo exhibition.
Client: Donna Darkwolf Vos
An Angel takes a break from musical practice
Elements = Enlarged photograph of Shiny Wfe posing with cello
Digitally manipulated with inclusion of wings.
Client: Donna Darkwolf. Magazine article.
Posed photograph converted to digital illustration
Elements = Many
Showing the Original and final Rendered Art.
Personal Indulgence
Elements = 2: Photo of Donna in her red flamenco dress. Book.
Client: Donna Darkwolf. Magazine Article
Elements = 3: 3 x Colour Photos of girlfriend
Three shots from my locked-off camera combined into one 'time-lapse' still.
Magazine Article
Elements = 2: Two photos of girl friend posing on different ends of couch
- montaged together
Magazine Ad
A mystical Red Queen moves her robotic knight thru' the chess maze to
commit an assassintion.
Elements = Countless
Photo of my wifes hand
Composite of "found" image components
Elements = 2: Photo of Wife #1 deep-etched and dropped into hand-drawn
background
Wine Event promotion art
Elements = 1: Alternative version of original
air-brushed artwork
Personal project
Elements = 1: Colour Photo of wife
Manipulated to a painterly effect.
Private Portrait
Elements = 5: Black 'n white photo of me as a conductor, colorized. Baton
changed for arrow. Flames added to score. Burning background. Frazetta
woman entering shot.
Farewell card for the girl-friend who took the photo
Elements = 2: Color Photo of my wife. Background.
Donna had been interviewed by a Wiccan/Pagan publication that want a photo
of her to accompany the interview. She told them she would supply the Art.
Meaning - I would supply the Art. Of course.
Elements = 1: Colour Photo of my Wife
Photo converted to black & white whilst retaining the RED elements
of her costume.
Portfolio Art
Elements = 1: Colorized black 'n white photo of her to hang up in our
house
Because I can!
Elements = 3: My illustrated crocodile. Shadow. Photo of Ponto d'Ouro
Beach.
"85 Million Years of Experience - One Goal!"
Self-Promo
Elements = 1: Colour Photo of girlfriend
Converted to Black & White, and colour manipulated.
Magazine Article
Elements = 6: Photo-montage. Photos of: My wife. Two chalices. Goldfish.
Reflection of wife. Reflection of goldfish.
Self-promo for Portfolio
Elements = 3: Charging lion photo
Computer monitor and keyboard photo
African wilderness photo
Magazine Ad
Read a Dictionary of Politics of Africa's Alphabet Zoop
Elements = 3: Photos of two fried eggs
Outline map of Africa
Magazine Article
Elements = 6: Woman suntanning at the roads edge of a cliff . . .
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Elements = Several
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
Personal exploration.
Elements = +/- 100: Montage of my art illustration work breaking free
from my mind..
Self-Indulgence
Graphic portrait re-imagined from a photograph
No machine involved. Visual Art
Just when you thought no one could fuck it up. . .
A modern take on Pandora's Box.
Elements = 65+
Visual Art
Elements = 3: Planet. Satellite. Path.
Good thing the Earth is round. Imagine the cost of putting a satellite
into SQUARE ORBIT!
Portfolio Work
Death. Destruction. Divine Intervention.
It's "The Sodom and Gomorrah Show"
Elements = 14
Political Commentary. Vlad Putin cigarettes as a cancerous enema. Posted
and downloaded everywhere.
Political Satire Protest Art
Elements = 10
Political Satire. Vladimir Putin's Nuclear Strike cigarettes.
Political Satire Protest Art
Elements = 19
Political Commentary. Vladimir Putin's Nuclear Strike cigarette poster.
Downloaded 35000+ times.
Political Satire Protest Art
Don't Believe It. Noah's Scam - More like it!
Elements = 15
Digital composition illustration for a client
"The Book of The Nephelim"
Website title Image
Elements = 2: My typography + image of Sirius A taken by the Hubble Telescope
A message to You!
Visual Art
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Image photo-composition
Elements = 6: Sourced images
Digital manipulation for story-board.
Elements = 26
Poster for an imaginary movie staring Little Annie Fannie, a comic series
character created by by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder.
Little Annie Fannie appeared in 107 episodes in Playboy magazine
Elements = 1: Scanned promo poster from video shop. Image enhanced / converted
/ posterized.
Title Parodied. Miami style-flecked background.
Ferrari 1973 365 GTB/4
Commissioned Artwork
Women. Life. Freedom. Iran protest banner
Elements = 4: Photos of Mahsa Amini
Hand, Flag art, Arabic text
Without going in, you will never know if . . .
Elements = 2: Guys at shop and Tesseract
Bit of Fun
Elements = 2: Shot of apple
Manipulation of apple skin to "box" shape.
Company Logo
Elements = 3: Photo of my Aztec plaque. Photo of my air-brushed eye from
another project. Graphic sprocket.
Commissioned for some home-pub
Elements = 4: Photos of background of painting
Photo of my "Alien Wonder"
Photo of my green Aztec plaque
Addition of glow and 'blue fire'
Elements = 9: Colour Photo of babies
Colour photo of field of daisies
Addition of sky.
Creation & addition of 3-D alphabet items
Client: Jensen's. Baby Bedding Ad
Elements = 2: Me wowing the crowd, and a photograph of a crowd taken from
a magazine
Promotional Cards
Elements = 5: Two arms. Dynamite stick. Lit fuse. Background. Typography.
Memorable message WITH A BANG!
Promo-art for magazine
Conference promotional material
Elements = 2. Movie poster and running agents.
Lunch Invite to My Shiny Wife. I presented the rolled up poster in a tube
marked: "Let's do Lunch".
She framed it and hung it up in her office
The background art for an invitation to one of my art exhibitions . .
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Portfolio Art
Elements = 2: My artwork. Stolen space vessel
My Private Collection
Portfolio Art
Saffron Rd.
Bracknell.
Easthampstead. U.K.
&
Mill Street
Gardens. Cape Town
My Mobile: +44 799 011 3314
WhatsApp: +27 76 129 9265
morenofranco.design@gmail.com
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday
08:00 - 17:00
Over-Time Rates Apply