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Photo Retouching Services | Professional Photo Editing Service

Fixthephoto is the most trusted agency in online photo retouching business since 2003. Simply upload photos, write your requirements, and we'll take care of the rest.

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Photo Editing Services We Provide:

Portrait Photo Editing

Only $6 per photo. We will make portrait photos look good and professionally edited.
Our retouchers will enhance body shapes and skin texture, remove all unwanted imperfections making your models look realistically edited.

Portrait photo editing services included:

Color adjustment
Skin smoothing
Blemishes and stray hair removal
Make-up correction

Wedding

Only $0. 25 per photo. Give a romantic feel to your photos.
Our team will add highlights, adjust colors and enhance the background fast and at the cheapest price.

Wedding photo editing services included:

Stylized color correction
Airbrushing
Skin texture retouching
Smoothing out wrinkles on the clothes
Fixing lighting issues

Body

Only $6 per photo. We will make any model’s figure look fabulous.
We will remove all skin and body imperfections reshaping body parts, muscles size increasing and fixing makeup.

Body photo editing services included:

Airbrushing
Making body curves slimmer
Dodge&Burn
Breast enlargement
Cellulite removal
Background enhancement
Stray hair removal

Newborn

Only $6 per photo. We will help you enhance baby photos to create a charming photo album.
Our experts will remove skin blemishes, adjust red tints/colors, remove props and transform the background naturally.

Newborn photo editing services included:

Skin tone enhancement and airbrushing
Nose, eyes, cheeks retouching
Background editing
Color enhancement
Unnecessary props removal
Body retouching

Product

Only $2.50 per photo. We will help you widen your customer base.
Our experts will skillfully edit your product/ecommerce photos and make them Amazon or catalog-worthy.

Product photo editing services included:

Background removal/replacement
Color correction
Editing out shadows
Ghost Mannequin technique
Noise reduction
Clipping path

Jewellery

Only $6 per photo. Make your jewelry photos shine and look flawless.
We will enhance gems, replace background, make color correction and remove any unwanted objects.

Jewellery photo editing services included:

Background removal
Making the gemstones look shiny
Color enhancement
Reflection removal
Making metal surfaces smoother

Photo Manipulation

Only $30 per photo. Make your photos or collages look more creative and fun.
We can fully replace heads, facial expressions, transform the background, turn your pictures into paintings and make funny collages.

Photo manipulation services included:

Photomontage
Background removal
Objects replacement
Heads/faces swapping
Applying special effects

Real Estate

Only $1. 50 per photo. Help your clients find a house of their dreams showing perfect photos.
We guarantee professionally edited photos of real estate properties and interiors covering real estate trends.

Real estate photo editing services included:

Horizon strengthening
Sky replacement
Lawn retouching
Unwanted objects removal
Window cut-out

Restoration

Only $30 per photo. We will bring your memories back to life.
Colorize an old family photo or restore a photo damaged by time/water/fire.

Photo restoration services included:

Restoring water-damaged areas
Repairing torn parts
Deleting stains
Face retouching

How Does It Work?

Upload photos

Write instructions

Get your edited photos

Submit for revision if needed

It’s very easy to start using our online photo editing service! You can do it in just 4 simple steps:

1. Create account and upload your photo/s.
2. Write detailed instructions, attach sample photos.
3. Get your edited photos back.
4. Accept the work or request changes (if necessary).

Be sure that our professional photography retouchers will follow your photo editing guidelines to create a digital masterpiece for your clients.

Photo Retouching Services

Professional photo retouching services provided by FixThePhoto perfectly meet requirements of a professional photographer who wants to save time or a beginner who wants images to be professionally edited.

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Our Customers’ Feedback about FixThePhoto Image Editing Service

Amanda Fury - A verified customer on family photo editing service
(4/5)
- 06/09/2022
I promised one customer to return his pictures in time, after it I had another client whom I promised the same too. Consequently, that turned out to be a closed circle of broken promises.
The best decision was to google an online Photoshop editing service. Soon I realized that the retouching price of $30-50 per one hour was too much. Eventually, I found FixThePhoto. Only $2 per 1 retouched photo. At first, I didn`t believe that was true, because their quality was great.
For $10 every customer can order High End photo editing. Usually it takes me from 3 hours to do it. Now I co-work with them on a permanent base.
Regina Wood - A verified customer on commercial photography retouch service
(4/5)
- 16/08/2022
Usually I don’t leave service reviews but this is an exception. Working in the photography and retouching industry for many years, you realize that it’s difficult to find free time on deep photo editing.
Being just a hobby-like beginner, I had to improve my photography speed, skills and style. That requires much time and I didn’t have enough time to devote to mastering Photoshop or Lightroom. Unfortunately, Photoshop still remains sophisticated for me and I spend much time on manipulations.
Co-working with the online photo editing service - FixThePhoto is the first professional step in my successful career. I want to express my gratitude to this service for following my style and attention to detail.
Kate Perkins - A verified customer on portrait photo enhancement services
(5/5)
- 04/08/2022
Some years before, I was a frequent user of automatic image retouching services. But as soon as I discovered the world of photo industry, I began to understand that this type of cooperation did not suit me at all.
So, I referred to freelance photo retouchers but this co-working also did not satisfy me, that was rather slow. Then I addressed FixThePhoto. To make sure of their high-quality, I gave them one testing order with photo correction.
Since then I have been successfully working with them for half a year. No hidden problems concerning pricing, no delays. This touch up service can be recommended.
Richard Ferguson - A verified customer on basic photo edit service
(4/5)
- 11/07/2022
I have never tried doing retouching on my own, having trusted this procedure to freelancers. But this cooperation brings too many difficulties. Communication is almost impossible and deadlines are, as a rule, broken.
At first, I was quite skeptical about FixThePhoto photo editing service but being offered a free trial, I was able to estimate their quality. The results were satisfactory. So, with little fear I sent one paid order. The result overcame my expectations.
They have never ignored my deadlines. Their photo retouching prices are friendly that there are no changes concerning my standard package for customers. A great service for amateurs who don’t like making image editing on their own.
Peter Andrews - A verified customer on retouch services
(5/5)
- 23/06/2022
Many years ago I somehow managed to combine the occupation of a photographer and retoucher without any assistance. I tried to do it on a satisfactory level and my customers did not have claims.
Once I was asked to provide an unusual digital manipulation. I had to change clothing, backdrop and other little details. I didn`t want to refuse that particular order. Thus, I had to spend several long days in front of my computer trying to learn at least something that would be helpful in Photoshop. But still my result was too weak, awkward and clumsy to be shown to the client.
Fortunately, I came across this photo editing service and became totally impressed.

Our Photo Editors Works

Click on the Before and After examples below to see some of our recent retouching work. Professional photographers all around the world trust us and send their photos for post production photography services by our highly skilled Photoshop experts.

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Professional Photo Retouching Services Worldwide

Photographers often ask us where is our photo editing company located and is it possible to work if they are not in the USA. We are online photo editing service that means there are no limits and borders and we can work with photographers from any country and speak any language.

USA

USA is our primary business area. We have built successful collaboration with hundreds of professional and beginner photographers from West to East.
Main cities are covered: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Denver, Miami, Seattle, San Diego, and photographers from smaller towns also have highly appreciated our photo retouching services.
You can read reviews and testimonials from our USA clients, many of them are posted on our Facebook page by real photographers who have used our photo editing services.

Canada

Canada is the second destination and we work with Canadian photographers remotely with great success, as you can see from the testimonial below.
We have online support on our website (look at the bottom right corner) we you can chat with English or French speaking manager to ask question or discuss details of your photo retouching order.
If you are a Canadian photographer from Ottawa, Vancouver, Quebec or Montreal, or live in British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta. We can list there all Canadian provinces, but let’s say - no matter where exactly you live in Canada - just try our service to get all benefits of outsourced photo editing workflow.

China

This country has many talented photographers who are interested in growing their photo business by means of our photo retouching services. Since 2013 China photographers work with the digital artists in various direction – starting from basic color correction and artistic edit. China shooters always pay close attention to the smallest details of the photograph and we prove our quality by making their photos naturally edited by means of image post processing services.

Brazil

We take much pleasure providing photo retouching services for photographers from Rio de Janeiro, Sгo Paulo, Salvador and other cities in Brazil. Every day we provide professional photo editing services for Brazilian customers who understand what high quality photo art is. If you want you can try any level you like for reasonable rate. We provide only the best service and excellent results.

Europe

We are multi languages online photo editing service offering customer support in English, French, German, and Italian.
Our website has separate Italian and German versions to meet requirements of European photographers. There are no boundaries in the internet, you can order photo editing services wherever you live. Read testimonials from our happy clients and become of them.

Australia and New Zealand

From Sydney to Perth and from Adelaide to Darwin we offer professional photo editing help and support. Don’t hesitate to outsource your pictures to retouch up and get all advantages of professional post-production services.
New Zealand photographers are welcome to try our digital photo retouching services, we are always happy to work with different cultures and countries adapting to the client’s style and needs.

Japan

Our retouching portfolio consists of pictures made by photographers from Japan. We provide professional photo retouching with personal attitude to each customer which is highly valued by Japanese photo shooters. You can try any image touch up no matter what time is in your town. The great amount of permanent clients are from this country we are proud of having such famous shooters in our client list.

United Kingdom

Our experienced masters work with many portrait and wedding photographers from London, Bristol, Liverpool, Lancaster, Wales and other. UK amateur and professional shooters can take advantage of our photo post production services in all genres and of all levels. FixThePhoto team collaborates with many customers from this beautiful country which artists do not stop surprising us with their outstanding portfolios. We are happy to help them with photo editing process.

About FixThePhoto Photo Retouching Service

Image Retouching Company Growth

FixThePhoto has been in business since 2003. Earlier we specialized in portrait photo editing in Photoshop and GIMP and offered only basic image retouching services. Today we provide the widest range of professional online retouching services of the highest level. Our retouchers make any kind of Photoshop work for all photography genres and of any level of complexity.

Our mission is to offer fast, affordable, secure, and high-quality photo retouching help for beginning and professional photographers who can’t or don’t have time to do image editing on their own.

At FixThePhoto we understand that many photographers are just starting out, so we provide specialized photo editing services for everyone. We are constantly developing and trying to make your work easier. You take photos, we edit.

FixThePhoto Photo Editing App
We launched our own application, Fix The Photo Editor & Retouch, on iOS and Android which allows anyone to receive individual photo editing, color correction and even photo restoration on the phone in a couple of clicks and get the image done online in minutes. Send your photos, highlight the face/s, choose what changes you want (background correction, face or/and body retouching, colors fixing, adding stickers, change faces, etc.) and get notified as soon as FixThePhoto’s expert edits your picture. Our app makes editing faster, now you can ask for professional retouching anytime you want. You can order all photo editing services our website offers right in your phone.
Reviews Professional Photography Editing Software Gears
FixThePhoto starts sharing its skills in professional photo editing services so we are creating articles and video tutorials that will be a helpful hand in professional photographic retouching. They will allow everyone to find some ideas about photo retouching and post-processing. Our YouTube videos will provide training for any level: newbie, intermediate and expert photographers. In those video tutorials you'll learn the ways of using photo editing softwares, tools and working with layers. We'll teach you how to shift your wedding, product, real estate, and portrait photographs to the pro high stage. Our lessons will show methods of photo editing, posing guides, creative ideas as well as plenty of image retouching techniques and useful tips about how to run a successful photography business.
Shop for Digital Photo Retouching Tools
Later we open our Shop where customers can download useful free and premium tools to enhance photos in Photoshop, Lightroom or Capture One. They are easy-to-use and can be applied by amateurs and experts. These are Lightroom presets, brushes, Capture One styles, Photoshop actions, overlays, textures, brushes. Besides, one can download photography marketing templates, photography logos, pricing templates, invitations that are very useful for promoting photography business. We add new products every day to make photo editing workflow easier and quicker.
Digital Image Retouching Manipulation
This year we start to provide our clients with photo manipulation services as well as digital drawing. This kind of professional photo editing services is widely used when photographers can't take this kind of pictures or naturally edit them because it is technically too difficult. We create completely fantastic and surreal photographs, sketches or cartoons realistically and for the affordable price. This online retouching service merges real objects and photos to offer funny or unreal outcomes. Our retouchers work with different file formats. Having got many years of photo editing practice our professional retouchers and digital artists may create a masterpiece from any shot.
Product Photo Retouching Services Clipping Path Photoshop Service
After successful launch of Lightroom photo editing service FixThePhoto begins to offer product photo editing services for e-commerce photographers who need professional photo editing help for their projects. They can order clipping-path, color correction, ghost mannequin, and other related Photoshop services. As an international professional picture editing service, we start cooperating with more than 1000 clients from advertising and marketing agencies, online shops as well as with a plenty of professional photographers from all over the world. We assure that with our help they get the professional photo editing services for reliable fees with the fast-delivery time – especially in case of bulk orders.
This year we started a blog that features hundreds of articles about photo editing, photography news, photo gear reviews, latest trends, etc. In this blog our photo retouchers and experienced photographers present information about their experience, illustrate their favorite and recent photographs, before and after photo editing samples, etc. The images are accompanied by stories, tips and photography techniques.
Lightroom Photo Editing Services
In several years Lightroom starts to gain popularity, so we offer bulk photo editing. Our retouchers start offering Lightroom photo editing services that are oriented on beginning and professional photographers who're specialized in event photography. We provide the following grades of photo retouching services: image culling, color correction, and artistic photo editing. The online photo editing services are carried out by the professional photo editors who consider the clients’ feedback and follow instructions. To save photographers’ money, we offer Lightroom Photography Editing Packages that are useful in high seasons.
Old Photo Retouching Restoration Services
This year our retouchers begin to restore old photos or images damaged by time/fire/water. Our clients send us scanned original photographs and then we use Photoshop to edit the old images that can be printed later. No matter what happened with the damaged images, our photo retouchers fix them. Amongst other photo restoration companies at the market, we offer low costs but the top-notch quality and realistic photo retouching technique, fast turnaround time, online order monitoring possibility, and nearly 24/7 customer support.
Portrait Retouching Services
FixThePhoto starts editing portrait photos. Our retouchers do basic photo editing of headshots, couple, baby, and family photos. The photographer’s style is followed. For affordable price we do everything a photographer needs for realistic results. Using our image editing service, one can be sure we don’t publish, sell or use his/her photos without permission. The Photoshop service helps photographers to be ahead of their competitors..

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Digital Photo Retouching Services Online

If you searched on google you will find that Photoshop has been officially released in February 1990. Since then, the world of Photography and the art of photo retouching has come to a new era.

It's the digital era digital retouching, digital photography.

It all has started with basic stuff in Photo Retouching that can be done using Photoshop and only limited to the Mac version. With constant enhancements Adobe has made to Photoshop through the years, the world of Digital retouching has gone so far beyond what was thought of to be a high technology back then.

The word " Photoshopping" has become so popular which is meant by Retouching Photos, though there are other photo editing apps that can retouch and edit photos and designs, but never have been so wide as Adobe Photoshop does.

Nowadays ordering a photo retouching service online is handy and easy as eating an apple pie with different websites and companies providing photo editing services and a variety of price lists.

Photorelive is one of the best Photo retouching companies that can provide a digital photo retouching professionally.

Either if you are looking for the High-end retouching level such as celebrity, fashion and beauty photo retouching, or daily portraits of your clients.

We provide our service for an affordable and decreasing pricing system which is made for Photographers and clients who order constantly bulk amounts of pictures to be retouched.

Following are some digital photo retouching samples and services made by Photorelive

The most known type of digital retouching which is more about beautifying a photo, mostly used for fashion and modeling.

Fashion and model photo retouching is one of the services we provide, concentrating more on the details which need a professional retouching artist who knows deep in the digital Retouching art tricks making the photo look professional, giving it the magazine-cover look.

As most of the professional photographers request detailed and very natural skin retouching for fashion photos.

We try our best to make sure that the photo meets the guidelines as requested by the client, for amateur photographers editing your photos with Photorelive will for sure help making your photos look professional for affordable pricing.

Models photo retouching, we start by color correction and cast and exposure adjustments which is preferred on the RAW version of a photo, giving more control over colors and color grading, fixing exposure, enhancing shadows and light in the image, increasing color saturation a little enough to make the photo more vibrant, applying filters as sharpening and other enhancements before the retouching process.

Skin highlighting is the part which is for finalizing the photo using dodge and burn tools to add depth in the photo for the skin and other objects as needed, fixing or applying makeup on the model all the way to adding eyelashes, enhancing eyebrows fixing it

While the main thing that takes the eyes when looking at the photo is the body of the model.

Which we edit using the liquify tool to enhance the shape of the body and slimming the extra parts out. All the way to make up retouching to cover most of the sides when retouching a photo.

Edits applied:

Eyes color, Hair color changed
Skin smoothing, Make up higlighting
Nose shape enhanced
Lips color changed
Stray hair removal

Edits applied:

Full make up, eyes make up
skin highlighting and smoothing
Body shape enhanced
Dress wrinkles softened

Edits applied:

Full face make up
Eyelashes was added
Slight face slimming
Eyes color enhanced
Lips color applied

According to Wikipedia : Some photo manipulations are considered skillful artwork while others are frowned upon as unethical practices, especially when used to deceive the public.

The words Photo Manipulation is an equal to what is known to be Photo Retouching, while Manipulation is known more for a deeper level of retouching photos.

In the world of digital retouching, Creative retouchers can do any type of Photo Manipulation using Adobe Photoshop and other tools to retouch photos made especially for graphic designers which give the ability to convert your photo into a piece of art.

Whether it is a personal or professional model picture, photo manipulations will make your picture look completely different. digital photo retouching tools with some creativity let us make such a unique type of work.

To cartoonize a photo is an example, which gets done by selecting each item and object / color in the photo and recoloring it with a solid color, adding special effects to give the animated look into your photo with special and colorful backgrounds for a fantasy touch.

Edits applied:

Merging a street photo
Applying a special effect

Edits applied:

Changing background
adding effects

Edits applied:

Photo cartoonized

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Because everyone wants to look beautiful, we use Photoshop to slim body parts and enhance the shape, starting from the face and double chin removal and slimming the waist, legs and the other parts of the body and decreasing extra pounds.

Photorelive provides a variety of Retouching Services online, we understand that every client wants to make the best out of his/her photos, if you need to retouch photos professionally, Body Editing and Reshaping with highlighting the skin is something we can do for you and do it professionally.

In the photo below you can scroll between the before and after to check the results after retouching, which looks much more professional after editing the photo.

Reshaping and resizing breast or making it bigger in shape. With other enhancements to the look of body and face including whitening and resizing the eyes to look bigger, editing the cheeks and the shape of the nose for a better look.

Hair fixing and retouching, changing colors, adding eyelashes, eyebrows or refining them the way you want them to look.

All the way to making you look fit in your pictures. All that can be done using our Photo Retouching Company.

Edits applied:

Body slimming
Background replacement
Breast lifting
Skin smoothing

Edits applied:

Body & face slimming
Skin retouching

Real Estate is a big industry and needs a good marketing, while marketing starts with a good professional photo.

Real estate photo editing service is to retouch and enhance the photo of a house, a palace .. etc. If you are a photographer or an architect and looking for editing Real estate photos, you have actually come to the right place.

We have edited thousands of pictures through the years and have the experience in retouching properties, luxury Real estate, interiors photos professionally in a short time.

Simply create an account with us, submit an order, upload your photos and write your requests, you will get your photos finished in 24 hours made by our professional retouching team.

We also provide discounts for bulk and large orders for photographers ordering constantly. It all happens automatically as our system decreases the pricing for each client through the month, the more you submit orders the more the discount percentage increases for your next photo editing order.

For Real estate photo retouching, we apply a set of filters on each photo by sharpening and enhancing picture colors, increasing the clarity of the photo, decreasing the noise, editing contrast followed by exposure editing and light overall and color corrections to make the photo more alive and attractive.

Taking care of the perspective / lens distortion of the photo horizontally and vertically to look professional is actually the main thing when editing a real estate photo especially for the outdoor ones.

The grass gets enhanced and cleaned, any distractions get removed. Also one of the most important things which gets the attention of the eye is the background. And in our case here we are talking about the sky mostly, the sky must be enhanced if not replaced at all with a better contrasted blue sky. Adding HDR effects may also enhance the final look of the photo and make it look professional.

Edits applied:

Prespective enhanced
grass cleaned
Slight HDR effect
Distractions removed

Whenever you open a magazine and find an advertisement for a product, mostly it is photoshopped, the photo of a product passes through multiple stages all the way to digital retouching the picture of the product.

To enhance the way it looks for commercial use.

Retouching the product photos for galleries to be printed or for usage on a website, either way the background gets smoothed and different types of effects get applied .. fading shadows and reflections to look professional and pleasing.

Investing into the way the product looks like has a big impact on sales and the whole image of the brand itself, which shows the quality of the brand, the way a product photo or video is finalized can really tell how big and trusted the company is, low-quality media simply means a low-level company.

That's why attracting the eyes is the key to gain an expected client, Retouching product photos online and clipping path of its background professionally can be done online through multiple websites and services.

Photorelive is one of the best photo retouching companies to get your product photos finished professionally. Expert photo retouchers will work on your photos and fix the light, adjusting exposure and color saturation of your product.

Sharpening or smoothing the texture to look firm and wrinkles removal from either the background of the product itself, removal of any light glare over the product or replacing it with a solid white background with a gray shadow around.

Retouching service for prototypes and products which are not finalized yet we can fill the gaps and edit your product with the needed requests the way you are looking for the goal is to reach an outcome that satisfies the eyes doing whatever it takes using Adobe Photoshop and other software in the retouching process of a product.

Edits applied:

Background replaced
Chair color enhanced
Color corrections
Sharpening the photo

Edits applied:

Wrinkles decreased
T-shirt color changed
Background replaced
untying the folds

Each wedding is a ceremony that people celebrate which gets memorized into photos and videos, that’s why retouching wedding photos is a need to make the best memory of a lifetime.

While accidents always happen unexpectedly during the wedding day, Wedding Photo Retouching Service is to fix issues caused by the makeup artist or maybe a nonprofessional photographer or a rainy day made the hair look messy.

We start editing the wedding photo by applying filters to enhance the look of the picture, color corrections and exposure adjustments for a professional look.

Fixing the tie or suit of the groom and other defects to enhance the wedding day pictures, with the removal of unwanted objects or people, even adding people into your wedding photos and changing the background to a fantasy one.

Edits applied:

Wedding album cover design

Edits applied:

Exposure adjusting, sharpening
Skin smoothing
Objects removal
Body and face slimming

Edits applied:

Wedding album design

Edits applied:

Basic retouching
Exposure adjusting
Skin smoothing

Edits applied:

Wedding album design

With Photorelive you can outsource your photos to be edited, we provide color correction service for bulk amounts with a decreasing price system, whether the pictures are for an event or a wedding or any other type, we provide the service that can fix your photos colors to look professional.

Making color corrections which is more efficient on RAW Photos.

For old photographs color may appear to have an overall pink or blue tint to them, this is primarily due to the chemicals within the various layers of the photographic paper starting to breakdown, often due to age, and the way that the photographs have been stored, which we can fix to look much better and giving good prints for memories.

Edits applied:

Sharpening
Exposure adjusting
color corrections

Edits applied:

Sharpening
Exposure adjusting
color corrections

Here are more samples of the digital retouching made using Photoshop, with several types and cases.

We are a professional Photo Retouching Service company that you can count on, in 24 hours you can get your photos retouched with a new discount and price reduction each time you order.

In the examples below you can find people removal from a photo, eyes glare removal, color corrections to a dead photo bringing it back to life and many other edits.

Clients and Photographers who are looking to outsource photo retouching are welcome, with 12 years of experience in retouching services and post processing online, we can handle your work and guarantee your satisfaction.

Edits applied:

Sharpening
Exposure adjusting
color corrections

Edits applied:

Skin smoothing
Contrast adjusted
Stray hair removal
Glass glare removal
background smoothing

Edits applied:

Skin smoothing
Contrast adjusted
Stray hair removal
Color corrections

Edits applied:

People removal
Exposure adjusting
Sharpening
Skin retouching

Edits applied:

Sharpening
Exposure adjusting
Body and face slimming
Stray hair removal

Edits applied:

Exposure adjusting
color corrections
Skin retouching
Photo collage design

Restoring the old memories through photoshop and photo restoration, while colorizing the photo may actually mean a lot to some people who are hoping to keep a beautiful glance from the past of frozen moments.

Old photos usually are cracked or either has cuts and tears, for a reason or another as liquids get dropped on or scratches made by accident, turning the photo at some point to be damaged.

If you need a professional Old Photo Restoration Service, our retouchers are expert enough to fix old photos and restore its colors, sharpening and removing the noise on the photo removal of scratches and fixing the cuts over the picture.

Here you can check samples of old photos restored by Photorelive :

Edits applied:

Exposure adjusting
color corrections
Sharpening
Color cast removal

Edits applied:

Scratches removal
Contrast adjusting
Photo colorizing

Conclusion:

Digital Retouching is not limited to magazines only, you can be your own star and look your best just as you see on tv and magazines, You can order a photo retouching service online through several websites, while Photorelive is one of the best retouching companies for an affordable price.

With special discount system for photographers who need a photo editing service that you can count on.

Digital Photo Processing

This article brings together the most important techniques for digital photo processing (also called "post-processing"). They don't necessarily form a routine that you'll apply to all of your shots, but whenever you want a shot to look "right" you'll remember these methods.


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The image after processing more accurately conveys how this scene looks to the human eye - in most cases, this is the purpose of processing. Only white balance correction, exposure compensation, shadow restoration and sharpening were applied to the picture - all of these techniques are described below.

Overview: Top 10 Post-Processing Techniques

The techniques are listed roughly in the order in which they should be applied:

White Balance - Temperature and Tone Correction
Exposure compensation - Exposure compensation, shadow and highlight restoration
Noise reduction - during RAW processing or using external programs
Lens Correction - Correction of distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration
Detail - sharpening and local contrast in the picture
Contrast - Black Point, Levels and Curves Correction Tools
Composition - perspective and framing
Touch-up - color rendering and selective correction
Size - enlarge for print or reduce for website or email
Output sharpness - depending on subject and size of print or screen shot

Note: The title of each method refers to a summary of it later on this page with the most important considerations for each method. Within each summary, there are also links that will take you to more detailed information on each of the methods.

The above methods are essentially universal, so almost any photo editing program will do. If you're shooting in RAW (which is highly recommended), the order in which these methods are applied is almost irrelevant, as they will automatically be applied in the correct order during the RAW post-processing programs. Otherwise, the sequence of actions is critical - especially when it comes to sharpening, resizing and noise reduction. Be careful: over-processing of JPEG files can cause images to be posterized.

1. White balance

Just getting the white balance right can often greatly improve the color of an image. An incorrect white balance will introduce color shift into your image and can significantly reduce both contrast and color saturation:


Wrong white balance	Custom white balance

Control elements . First adjust the balance with the temperature slider, and then refine it with the tone slider (in some programs it is called the green level). The first controls the relative warmth of the image, while the second controls the purplish-green shift.
Problem scenes . Paradoxically, cameras tend to get the most wrong white balance in the most dramatically lit scenes (which can benefit the most from white balance correction as a result). Pay special attention to white balance when shooting sunsets, indoors, in low light, etc.
Other tools . If there is a neutral gray object somewhere in the picture, you can use the "white point eyedropper" (or similarly named tool) to automatically set the white balance so that the tonal shift of that object is subtracted from the entire picture.

2. Exposure: Compensation and Recovery

This step assumes that you have done your best to get the correct exposure while shooting. However, this is not always possible (or practical).


Underlight (loss of shadows marked in blue)	Perfect exposure	Overexposure (highlights shown in red)

Fortunately, exposure can be corrected using the exposure compensation tool. Some general tips for its use:

Image histogram . Use it to evaluate your actions. See Image Histograms: Hue and Contrast
View . Evaluate your shot at a small size on the screen for exposure. Also keep in mind that there is no "correct" exposure; often it depends on the artistic intent and just "looks right". This topic is discussed in more detail in the article on digital exposure methods.
Limit tones . Pay special attention to the presence of highlights or loss of detail in the shadows. If the program you're using supports it, you might be able to restore them with "Fill Light Repair" or "Black Eyedropper".
Restrictions . Avoid overcorrection. If you increase the exposure too much, there will be significant noise in the shadows, and if you reduce it too much, the presence of highlights will become more obvious. In any case, this most likely means that the exposure of the picture was incorrect, and it would probably be better to take it again.

3. Noise reduction

If the picture was taken at high ISO sensitivity, it will most likely benefit from noise reduction:


Noisy shot (High ISO)	aka after noise reduction	Best (low ISO)

Priority . Noise reduction is most effective when applied before any processing (with the exception of the two steps mentioned earlier: exposure compensation and white balance).
Varieties . Visual noise is different; Some of its types are easy to remove, others are difficult. Luckily, the noise caused by high ISO is of the kind that is relatively easy to deal with. This topic is covered in more detail in the article on visual noise.
Restrictions . Use suppression rather than noise removal, as the latter can make things look unnaturally smooth. Some noise is acceptable and even expected.
Special programs . In the case of problematic images, it may be worth trying special noise removal programs such as Neat Image, Noise Ninja, Grain Surgery or their equivalents.
Sharpness . Noise reduction often goes hand in hand with sharpening, so it may be necessary to apply it in conjunction with the fourth step (depending on the program being used). This is due to the fact that they can affect each other: sharpening increases noise, while noise reduction often reduces sharpness.
In some cases, you can apply noise reduction by averaging pictures

4. Lens correction

The three most problematic (but fixable) lens imperfections are:

Vignetting	Distortion	Chromatic aberration

The vignetting is most pronounced at low f-stops, although some lenses also show it more than others. A little bit of vignetting is often beneficial as it draws attention to the center of the image and makes the edges of the frame less harsh. Also note that vignetting correction increases visual noise at the edges. However, if the vignetting is caused by a physical obstruction (such as a lens hood or filter), unfortunately it cannot be corrected.
Distortion (distortion) will show up most when you use a wide-angle or telephoto lens (or use the near or far end of the zoom lens). Don't try to fix them until they're visually noticeable as you're lowering the edge resolution and changing the composition. Distortion is often acceptable when shooting landscapes, but unacceptable in photographs of architecture.
Chromatic aberration (CA) is most noticeable at low f-stops at the edges of the image and in areas of high contrast detail. When adjusting HA, use the high-contrast brightness drop at the edge of the frame as a reference.
However, be aware that not all CA types are easy to remove. If HA cannot be corrected with standard tools, you can try other methods. For example, Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW have a "fringing" tool that allows you to reduce even the most stubborn views of HA (however, at the risk of reducing detail).

5. Detail: Sharpness, Clarity and Local Contrast

The purpose of this step is to correct the smoothness inherent in the camera sensor and lens (“input sharpness”). It's important to use it conservatively because you'll be applying "output sharpening" later on as well. Sharpening must be done carefully as it can exacerbate other image quality problems (such as visual noise, chromatic aberration, etc.). However, when applied correctly, it can have a huge impact on the subjective quality of an image:


Original	Sharpness Correction

The basics of the methods used are covered in the following articles:

Image sharpening (practical overview)
Sharpening with a mask (details on how the unsharp mask works)
What is sharpness (factors affecting sharpness)
Local Contrast Enhancement (Sharpness Enhancement Method)

6.

Pictures taken against the sun or near a bright indoor light source often have low contrast (because they are affected by lens flare). Increasing the contrast often gives pictures the ever-in-demand "volumetric" look:


Before levels applied: low contrast	Application result: contrast enhanced

Excessive contrast can make a picture look unnatural if the original contrast was a distinguishing feature of the picture (when shooting in fog or haze).
Increasing contrast also makes colors more saturated.

Details are described in the following articles:

Using levels (Photoshop and other imaging programs)
Using tone curves (Photoshop and other imaging programs)

7. Composition: Perspective and Crop

Most pictures can be greatly improved by simple cropping to enhance composition. And while there are no universal rules, some good principles are outlined in Composition: The Rule of Thirds.


Original image	Cropping

When cropping, you can also refer to the selected print size (eg 10x15 cm). The cropping aspect ratio can often be set in an imaging program, greatly simplifying the process.

8. Touch-up: color reproduction and selective correction


Original image with dust spots on sensor	Digital touch-up result

In fact, any action can fall into this category, but there are some typical steps:

Color reproduction - correction of saturation, atmosphere and other aspects. However, this is often overdone, and this stage may not be needed at all if the white balance, exposure and contrast have been chosen accordingly.
Selective Correction - Removing dust or imperfections (as shown above), creative sharpening (such as on the eyes of a model in a portrait), and selective noise reduction (on initially smooth skies or skin). Important tools include the healing brush, clone stamp, layer masks, and adjustment brushes. See the help for your imaging program or browse the context menus to see which of these tools are available to you.

When finished processing, do not forget to save a copy of the snapshot , because all subsequent processing steps depend solely on how the snapshot is published. This will save you from having to repeat all the previous steps whenever you want to use the image for other purposes. In any case, at this stage, the image on the screen should look complete.

9. Size: Increase for Print, Reduce for Website

Whenever you change the displayed size of your image, you need to change the file size (using a process called "digital image interpolation"). Resizing strategies can vary greatly depending on whether you want to enlarge or reduce the image.

When enlarging a picture for printing:

Always try to enlarge yourself, do not leave this work at the mercy of the printer (otherwise it is easy to get visible digital distortion).
If you see a halo around contrasting edges, you may have overdone the intensity of the input sharpening (or set the radius too large).
See also Digital Image Enlargement Optimization

When reducing the picture for website or mailing:

Avoid unnatural patterns such as moire shown below.
See also the article "Reducing images for websites and mail"

	→	(unnatural moire)
Original image		50% scale

In any case, often much more important than the reduction method is the application of output sharpening (next step).

10. Output sharpening

Output sharpening is usually the final step in image processing. As a result, its setting depends on the selected display device and may take into account special considerations based on image size, type, and viewing distance. The output sharpening can also compensate for any blurring caused by downsizing a site or mail shot.

For details on this topic, see the Image Sharpening Guide.

Other recommendations

Backups . When you're done processing, don't forget to back up your photo. It would be a shame to lose the time and effort spent on image processing (not to mention shooting).
Monitor calibration . The time spent processing images is only useful when your screen is set up correctly. If you haven't already, check out the article on monitor calibration for digital photography, which covers this topic in detail.

Digital photo processing

Lovers and fans of photography since the advent of this new art form have been looking for beautiful, unusual views, trying to capture unique shots, thanks to which one could take a completely new look at the objects around us, people or nature. To do this, they also experimented with camera exposure, developers, and different grades of photographic paper.

With the advent of digital photography, the possibilities of photo artists have expanded significantly. Digital images today are increasingly used not only in photography, but also in advertising, marketing and other areas of activity. They can be printed on a printer or sent by e-mail to your friends and acquaintances, posted on the Internet, used to create advertising posters and announcements. Digital photography today is also an integral part of the style of communication between people.

With the advent of digital photography, completely new possibilities for image processing have opened up, which are currently available not only to professional photo artists, but also to people who are just starting their journey in the art of photography. Actually, image processing begins from the moment you have received a digital photo using a digital camera, or using a scanner - an ordinary photo or slide can be easily converted into digital form. What's next?

Modern technologies make it possible not only to correct defects in old photographs (retouching, color correction), but also to artistically process digital photographs, creating completely unexpected effects (for example, placing an object in an unusual setting or creating an original collage of several images). Currently, the software market is full of various programs and photo editors that allow you to process digital images in a convenient way. So, what opportunities do modern photo processing technologies provide us with today?

One of the most popular types of processing is photomontage, when different objects taken from different photographs are combined in one picture. During installation, both original photographs and ready-made templates can be used. Interesting and truly creative pictures come out mixed from hand-drawn objects and real photos.

Digital photographs often turn out to be inaccurate: the color reproduction of most inexpensive amateur cameras is far from ideal. The problem of color correction is relevant both for old color photographs and for modern photographs in which there are distortions in brightness and color balance. However, with the help of digital imaging technologies, it is possible to correct colors and eliminate such defects. Thanks to the use of special photo editors, you can correct the balance of colors, significantly expanding their range, which means increasing the brightness and saturation of the image. In addition, you can change the ratio of different colors in a photo, which is especially useful when correcting scanned aged photographs.

Colorization of a black and white image allows you to bring the image on the old photo closer to the present. Thus, breathing new life into it and making the image more natural. In this case, you can independently choose colors that will match each detail depicted in a black and white photograph. Cropping or removing an insignificant part of an image is also a very popular and popular technique in digital image processing. With the help of this simple trick, you can “remove” the desired fragment from the picture and focus the viewer’s attention on it. Cropping, thus, makes it possible to cut off everything superfluous in the image and focus on a separate, necessary element. You can also cut out individual objects from the overall picture and place them against the desired background.

Applying filters in photo editors allows you to hide noise in photos or smooth out grainy pictures taken at high ISO values. With the help of such filters, you can turn a blurry picture into a spectacular frame due to the fact that the blurring of the borders will no longer be visible, and the object will be placed behind the ribbed glass, as if covered by it.

Thus, digital processing of photos allows you to achieve a variety of effects for adjusting images, decorating a picture under a photo album or printing an advertising poster. To do this, various graphic and photo editors are used today. Such programs allow you to creatively process digital photographs and make the necessary changes to them.

Today you can find both simple software packages with a convenient simple interface and limited features, and professional editing programs, literally crammed with a variety of functions, tools and filters. The second type today is the Abode Photoshop program, which occupies a dominant position in the market for professional digital image processing software, being in recent years a kind of model for all other editing programs. Such programs are constantly used by professionals working in the field of advertising, marketing, press and portrait photography. Currently, there is no need to use all editing programs at once, you need to use only those that are most suitable for solving a particular task, or those with which you are more familiar with the features of working. Therefore, it is recommended to gradually, with the necessary experience, move from simple editor programs to more complex software packages.

Digital image processing allows you to create a complete photograph, this is a way not only to compensate for flaws and defects in shooting, but also to get almost limitless opportunities for embodying your artistic intent and the most incredible ideas. In addition, the processing of digital photographs today is also a vital necessity for many professionals involved in the field of advertising, media and photography. The most important thing when processing digital images is to remember why you need them.