Just a taste of my
DIGITAL ARTISTRY…

A full bottle of imagination — choose a good year.

A few cups of color — choose complementary colors with high contrast for best results.

Mix generously within the tried and true rules of layout design.

Pour into a well-prepared receptacle. Lightly dust with GF flour.

Bake with inspiration and patience.

Serves a creatively hungry team.

Season to taste.

I created this digital montage to illustrate a recent article I wrote, 22 Ways to Listen to Your Gut in 2022, posted on LinkedIn.

There’s always a visual to tell the story.

These were researched and developed in support of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Make your personas come alive.

This set of conceptual holiday cards attempted to capture the warmth, magic, and wonder of the holiday season at the end of the year and at the beginning of a new one. The concepts needed to be culturally and globally appealing.

Capture and inspire.

Feeling a strong need to understand and support my fellow colleagues in whatever environment I may find myself, I make it a goal to understand what they are trying to accomplish to support them to be successful. In getting to know the various roles within an organization, I’ve found it extremely helpful to share with others not only the value of each of these roles, but also the humanity behind each persona.

Support the understanding & success of colleagues.

These are some of the many pictures demonstrating photo manipulation and creation of parts of images never there.

The unique proportions and ratios of picture elements in the organization’s newer content management system (Adobe Experience Manager, AEM) with their responsive and image-heavy UI layouts required some type of photo manipulation in nearly every photo — products, people, landscapes.

Typical manipulations such as color corrections, background removal, removal of warping, repair (blemishes, brightening, smoothing), stretching of certain parts of an image were common place. More time-consuming were constructions of something not in existence, such as building shoulders not there.

The extremely wide and narrow (panoramic) format was popular in many of the UI layouts chosen and implemented — and there is never a good “cheat” in using pictures of people who have been cropped in the photographic frame.

From these common challenges and more that came to me to fix, I developed an AEM Photographic Guide for content creators, shown in the last image here.

Attention to details makes the difference.

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