During a photo shoot for Vileda, the model's hands holding the cleaning products were too large for the gloves. Mark My Word's Creative Director sort Stephen's help to retouch the photography and briefed him on making the hand and forearm shapes appear slimmer and more suited to the gloves' size. Franklin removed any creases or blemishes on the gloves’ surface, applied the necessary image corrections, and reduced the model’s overall arm and hand profile. As a result, the glove in each retouched image was cleaner and more diminutive, making it less distracting and bringing the focus back onto the client’s products.

Creative Direction: Mark My Words Advertising
Retouching: Stephen Franklin
Blue gloved hand holding a Vileda scouring pad.
The completed retouched product image with exposure and colour corrections applied.
Animated GIF showing stages of retouching for the Vileda product retouching.
Build-up of the retouching showing the removal of surface creases and warping of glove profile.
Original product photography of Vileda sponge.
Original product photography of Vileda sponge.
Finish retouched product photography of Vileda sponge.
Finish retouched product photography of Vileda sponge.
A new forearm was added to this composition and the end of the glove was reconstructed by cloning similar nearby textures. 
Original photography of blue gloved hand holding yellow sponge.
An additional image using the blue glove was required for the sponge product.
Finish retouching of blue gloved hand holding a Vileda sponge.
All surface discolouration was removed prior to adjusting the shape of the glove’s profile.

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