NEW ZEALAND ISSUE 486 Aug 2014

Novo Retouching is a fresh new company with passionate and creative image retouchers at its heart. Based in New Zealand, owner and director Kelvin Gilbert has been striving to be the best in the country since he began his photographic career. In 2013, he won the New Zealand 'Illustrative Photographer of the Year' award and other multiple gold awards internationally.

Novo Retouching's key specialistions are retouching and compositing photographic images. These include clear-cutting and preparing clipping paths of subjects with seamless compositing into new backgrounds, or as files ready for design layout use.

The company produces well-rendered images to a high standard, believing that post-production and finishing can significantly increase the potential of images and add strong emotive impact, vital for marketing purposes.