Christophe Huet

Christophe Huet is a french photoshopretoucher. I find his work very interesting and fascinating. He does advertising and I think that is even better because he can make money from his work. He created advertisings for Nike, Motorola, AIDES and Playstation. He started out working as a printer, and he trained himself on retouching. He has been retouching now for 10 years. I read that his main purpose is to make people forget the retouching itself even if it seems obvious because of the singularity of the image. Now he keeps on working as retoucher and manager at ASILE since 2005.
Sometimes, he refuses projects for personal reasons like ads for cigarettes, for junk industrial food, or others that degrade any kind of people. He thinks we have to be responsible for our act, that’s the attitude he tries to have for himself even if it’s not always easy to do. He does not want to say ‘yes’ to everything in the name of money. The artistic part of his job can’t make him forget his responsability. Likewise, he always tries to keep time to offert his job for association that struggle against cancer, smoking, aids, all bad treatment, ecology...
On his website, we can view his work and he also has a section where he shows the different steps involved in making the complex images. I find it amazing how he starts with one image and ends up only using a portion of it. He uses so many images in one piece and he makes it look so real even though most of them are impossibilities. I think his website is great. I like how he is not just a photographer and a retoucher, he comes up with the advertising ideas that are so original and eye catching.
I hope to develop photoshop skills that are half as successful as his are.
link: http://www.christophehuet.com/