What Is Digital Darkroom Services?  My definition of it is the manipulation of images or graphics, such as photographs, art work etc.  It can also be photographic restorations and art restorations.  It can be enhancing photographs or images.  Tonal and saturation adjustments. Almost anything.   Most photographs taken by someone can be very beautiful.  But are they what they really saw.  Are the colors and composition what they saw.  These topics can be adjusted to bring the memories back as you saw them.  Here are a couple of examples:

This is an photograph taken from one of my San Francisco trips. It was a really overcast day. Not the picture I saw or was looking for. But...lurking within, is a picture that will surprise most.  The picture I saw in my mind and what I wanted when I took it.

Recently, I've had a couple of clients requesting some digital darkroom work. Which I love doing.  I was given a piece of artwork, a watercolor piece, done by Brenda Deluca. My client said, I have Brenda's permission to use her image to make a Christmas card. Can you turn this into an image that looks more like Christmas? Sure, I said. Give me an idea of what you want and I'll see what I can work up. So, this is what I did. I loved it! So did my client! So I asked if I could use the image to market my services. Brenda said it would be all right. Thank You Brenda for the use of your image.


The above image is Benda's original watercolor. They love these little trailers to do their camping in. Here is what I came up with for my client.



I had another client who's cat passed away and the cats name was "Hamlet. My client wanted her cat dressed in an outfit that fit the cats name. She sent me a picture of her cat and an outfit she wanted the cat posed in and then she wanted to have it printed on canvas. She had tried to do a cut and paste originally. My client requested a couple of things to be done, and I made the up an image she loved. She will always have the canvas print of her cat. Here is what I came up with using the graphics she sent me.



Here is the image I put together with her corrections.

I have a lot of fun working on things like this. I hope to do more of it.

In the future, this service may move to Mr Digital Darkroom.  Stay tuned and we'll see what happens.