I worked with some fantastic people at Hazelden — project manager Dawn Carlson, writer Teri Ryan, marketing director Lisa Neary — to produce Hazelden’s 2008 annual report.

Hazelden’s vision, while not easy to achieve, is simple and beautiful: “All who seek recovery will find it, and the stigma of addiction will be overcome.”

In keeping with this, we paired simple but beautiful imagery with a simple but sophisticated layout. I’m very proud of this effort.

Over the years I’ve been asked occasionally to show examples of previous Photoshop work, including image manipulation and retouching. So I threw together a mini-portfolio for that purpose.

I have expert-level Photoshop skills, which include:

• retouching
• custom pattern work
• complete knowledge of layer and path tools
• special filter effects
• color correction
• optimization for web or print

And a background in illustration and drawing helps me to render images that are convincing, with no telltale marks of manipulation.

Product display renderings | Anagram International

This company wanted to pitch a new display concept to a nationally known drugstore chain. I created this mockup for the pitch using existing product images and my own photos of Anagram’s display equipment and the drugstore interior.

Image retouching & manipulation | Terris, Barnes and Walters

Custom imagery for a political campaign piece. I removed existing embossing and added the poison sign in the same style.

Image retouching & manipulation | Working Assets

I removed the background, created a clipping path, retouched the screen and color corrected.

Image retouching & manipulation | Terris, Barnes and Walters

This stock image showed a rooster instead of a hen, which didn’t fit with our message. I brought in a hen and brightened the egg slightly. (I also created the typography.)

Illustrations | BI

My client on this project designs employee incentive and rewards programs for other businesses. A trip to the Caribbean was the pitch to this major sewing and embroidery machine manufacturer. We went with a Pirates of the Caribbean theme for the trip, so I dressed up the presentation materials with custom spot illustrations using an embroidered effect created in Photoshop.

Image retouching & manipulation | Working Assets

I replaced the screen with the GUI from a different phone and added the photo.