How did you process the Donnie images?
The images came from multiple sources, and the photos were taken at a variety of angles and at different resolutions. The intention was to focus on Hunt’s artwork, so we tried to bring them into a consistent format and tidy them up as best we could. Obviously with a low resolution image, there’s only so far you can go, so some of the images are quite poor, but in all cases we were able to tidy up the non-Donnie elements (neck, knobs, pickups) which would otherwise be quite distracting, leaving us with an idea of how the guitar would have looked when it was new.
All of the images were imported into Photoshop and processed against a standard template to ensure that they were consistent. As appropriate they were de-noised, saturated, warped, scaled and sharpened. We applied subtle shading and highlights to help emphasise the 3D nature of the guitar.