This web site represents my 25 years in advertising, showcasing my skill and work experience as a high end (boutique even) photo retoucher.

Except for the times I had access to a junior artist to help cut masks, every paint stroke featured here was done by me. Unfortunately, I feel the need to assure people of this as I have seen and been the victim of "artists" who've taken work I (or others) have done and represented it as their own.

Copy Rights… those images that weren't doodled for my own pleasure (see "doodles for myself") are owned by the agencies that commissioned them or by the photographers that took them. In most cases, I have labeled each image here with the names of the agency that commissioned the work and their client.

Please don't rip them off.

Your monitor and these images… on my monitor (more or less calibrated for print work) the color of these images is pretty f'n accurate if a wee bit over saturated.

If they don't look right to you, well… calibrate something.

Regarding my "before and after" section… some of you might be wanting to see "before's" of celebrities featured in various images on this site. Well, unfortunately, but for obvious reasons, I've been asked not feature the "before's" of some of these folks.

Reality?... my ass. Even that missing kid pictured on a half gallon carton of milk has been retouched.

Chow, Marc