Image Retouching Services
We have 8 years of experience in professional photo retouching. We specialize in portrait retouching, background replacement and photo restoration. We find retouching photos to be rewarding work because our customers are thrilled with our results!
We utilize manual retouching techniques so our work can hold up to enlargement without revealing the modifications.
Retouching can include (but not limited to):
- Facial: Blemish, wrinkle, loose hair, red eye, eyeglass reflection removal, whiten teeth and eyes
- Backgrounds: Replacement, color change, simulated lens blurring, and introducing a vintage look.
- Color Balancing: Exposure, hue, saturation, true blacks and whites, colorize, create black and white from color
- Object Removal: Background distractions like telephone poles, wires, people, etc
- Reconstruction: Replace blinking eyes, remove bulges, adjust busts, waist reduction, and rollback aging
- Cropping: An image can transform from ok to fabulous with an appropriate cropping of the image
- Restoration: Old photo restoration (prints, tin-types, deguerrotype)
We have competitive pricing with high quality results and our specialized techniques allow us to work efficiently and save you money! Often, we can complete the work online within a couple of hours!
No job is too small... whether you want a simple photo touch-up or an intricate merging of fine details.
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Services
In addition we offer the following services:
- Same day service (based on project size)
- Email retouched proofs for your approval
- Photo printing services or electronic distribution
- Volume discounts
- Repeat customer discounts
Samples
We have taken on some interesting and rewarding work, for instance:
A sibling came to us with a family picture with her brother between two other family members. Her brother had died and she didn't have an individual photo of him, so she asked me to remove the 2 other family members. The individuals were overlapping each other, thus I had to reconstruct the person's entire left arm and shoulder after remove the other person. To enhance the challenge, her brother had an intricate sweater with a lot of detail. To her delight, I was able to reconstruct the image and deliver an 8x10 print of her brother. That was very rewarding!
A client asked us to restore some 1800s vintage tin types and daguerreotype images that were severely degraded. Utilizing a high-end scanner with some careful tweaking of the settings, we were able to reproduce the images in a digital format. The restoration went so well, the client asked us to add back the look of an aged image!
A client wanted a CD album cover with a mixture of graphics and photographic images in the background. The challenge was to integrate the diverse elements into one cohesive image.
The mother of a bride came to me with 2 CDs of wedding images. The photographer made some severe errors while shooting an outdoor wedding and asked us to salvage the wedding pictures. We were able to retouch out flare, fill in harsh shadows, color balance, and recrop images to produce a wedding album for her.
A client wanted a staff photo superimposed over a beautiful mountain scene. We took the staff photo in similar lighting to the proposed background image with portrait fill lighting to blend the two images together for a good portait and believable merging of images.
A recent client wanted a priest removed from a formal wedding image (note: color balance was not allowed to change for this job):