Toronto photo retouching
All retouching is done here in Toronto by a full-time professional with over 20 years of digital retouching experience. I do not off-load work to third-parties and nothing is sub-contracted to low-paid pieceworkers in other countries. You are in direct contact with the person doing your retouching.
Retouching interior photos of homes, offices and factories is a common request. It's important to have vertical walls, good colour and contrast, and minimal distractions.
How does it work?
1: Email your picture and a description of what you want done. I work only with digital files. You can send your files by email, WeTransfer, Dropbox, or any other similar service.
2: I'll send you a quote based on $140/hour plus tax. After you've agreed to the price, I will do the retouching.
3: You will receive a watermarked proof of the finished photo.
4: If the retouching meets your needs, I'll send an invoice. After you've paid by credit card or Interac e-transfer, you will receive the finished photo.
If the retouching doesn't meet your needs, I can do one revision or you can cancel the work without any cost to you.
5: It's important that you make backup copies of the retouched photo because I do not keep any copies.
These pictures were for a construction company to show the before and after of a home renovation.
Photo retouching policies
(This list may change from time to time.)
I won't remove watermarks or copyright notices from photos.
I won't put your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse's face on another body.
I won't distort a photo to make the subject look worse.
I won't alter the text in any document.
I won't alter images of currency or postage stamps.
Photos intended for news use will receive only limited retouching in accordance with journalism standards.
One more thing
There are many people offering to do photo retouching. Some start at a dollar per photo. You get what you pay for.
I've been digitally retouching photos for over 20 years. Before this, I retouched photos the old-fashioned way with brushes, paint and dyes.
Each photo is retouched one at a time. This means that if you have a number of pictures to be retouched, it may take a while. I make no apologies for this.
Retouching is not magic and it has limits. My retouch skills also have limits. I won't accept a project for which I don't have the necessary skills.
Artificial intelligence software will one day make retouching quick and effortless but it's not there, yet.
Too much retouching? Everyone may want to look 20 years younger but it's not realistic. Good portrait retouching should be plausible and subtle.
Portrait retouching should remove blemishes, minimize but not remove wrinkles, tidy up loose hairs and smooth the skin tones. If it doesn't look realistic then it's too much retouching.
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Retouching can correct mistakes made by the photographer. It can fix camera or lens issues, and it can hide any subject failures. Properly retouched images make you look good.