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BeforePortrait Retouching Services
Portrait retouching services for photographers, studios and brands, priced per service so you pay only for what each frame needs. From headshot retouching services to high-end beauty retouching, every portrait is retouched by hand and checked at 200% by a second retoucher.
5 services · order one or stack three
- Starting Price
Per-service pricing — skin, eyes, hair and glare are each billed on their own.
Turnaround
24h
Free trial
3 portraits
Rating
4.9 ★ 1,240 reviews
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16 years in photo retouching
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In-house editors
Portrait retouching services we provide.
Our portrait photo retouching services are split into five lines, each priced on its own. Order one, or stack three on the same photo. You are never billed for a full retouch when the frame only needs skin and eyes.
Skin smoothing and tone.
Skin retouching starts with blemishes, redness, shine and under-eye shadow, removed one at a time. Tone is then evened with frequency separation retouching: colour on one layer, fine texture on another, so the surface of the skin survives the edit.
Pores and expression lines stay exactly where they were. If a face needs less than this, we do less; the brief is always to make someone look rested rather than resurfaced.
from $3.00 per photo
- Blemish and spot removal
- Frequency-separation tone work
- Redness and patchiness evened
- Shine and hotspot control
- Under-eye shadow reduced
- Pores and texture preserved
Blemish and scar removal.
Spots, marks and temporary irritation are taken out individually with the clone and healing tools, sampling from the subject’s own skin so the repair carries the right tone and grain. Nothing is blurred away in a pass.
Birthmarks, freckles and permanent scars are left alone unless you tell us otherwise — they are the difference between a portrait of a person and a portrait of a type.
from $5.00 per photo
- Acne and spot removal
- Scar softening on request
- Sampled from own skin tone
- Temporary irritation cleared
- Cold sores and cuts removed
- Freckles and marks retained
Teeth whitening and eye correction.
Yellow cast is lifted off the teeth with a targeted hue and saturation mask rather than a brightness push, so enamel keeps its natural variation. Catchlights are cleaned and the iris is given a little local contrast so the eyes read awake and focused.
Both get a subtle enhancement, brightened to the point of looking healthy and stopped there. A pure-white tooth or a glowing iris is the fastest way to make an edit obvious across a whole gallery.
from $5.00 per photo
- Yellow cast neutralised
- Catchlights cleaned
- Red or bloodshot whites calmed
- Enamel variation kept
- Iris contrast and clarity
- Sclera brightened naturally
Stray hair and flyaway cleanup.
Loose strands are tidied against the background, gaps in the hairline are filled by cloning from denser areas of the same head, and the outline is cleaned strand by strand rather than masked into a solid shape.
Movement is deliberately kept. Hair that has been smoothed into a helmet reads worse across a gallery than a few strays would have, so we leave the ones that look like hair and remove the ones that look like accidents.
from $8.00 per photo
- Flyaways off the background
- Outline cleaned strand by strand
- Parting tidied
- Hairline gaps filled
- Frizz calmed, not flattened
- Natural movement retained
Glasses glare removal.
Reflections and hotspots are cleared from the lenses without blurring the area around the eyes or losing iris detail, and the frame’s own shadow on the cheek is kept so the glasses still sit on the face rather than float above it.
Where a reflection covers an eye entirely there is no data to recover, so we rebuild it from an adjacent frame if you send one. Two or three extra exposures make this line far cheaper than it otherwise is.
from $12.00 per photo
- Lens reflections cleared
- Iris detail preserved
- Eye rebuilt from adjacent frame
- Hotspots removed
- Frame shadow retained
- Smudges and dust cleaned
How our photo retouching service works.
Upload & brief
Drop raw files or JPEGs into Drive, Dropbox or our FTP. No sign-up, no card, and 3 portraits free on a first order.
≈ 1h reply
Choose services & get a quote
Tick each editing service you want and add a reference frame you already like. We reply with a written quote inside an hour.
≈ 12–24h
Retouch & independent QA
Each frame is retouched by hand, then checked at 200% by a second retoucher before it leaves the floor.
Every image
Deliver & revise
Delivered as JPEG, TIFF or layered PSD in your naming and folder structure. Revisions on anything we got wrong are free, with no round limit.
≈ 24h
Turnaround
Most orders come back within 24 hours. Turnaround depends on the number of images and how many services you stack per frame: galleries of 500+ photos take two to three working days. If a deadline is going to slip, you hear it from us first.
Portrait and headshot retouching by level of finish.
Three common combinations, with exactly what an editor applies at each one. Each list shows our retouching process in order, so you can pick the right portrait retouching level for your shoot.
Portrait retouching and colour.
The lightest finish we offer, and the one most galleries want. We set exposure and white balance, lift harsh shadow off the face, and clean what is temporary — then stop. Nobody looks smoothed, and nothing about the person has changed.
Background colour is corrected alongside the skin so a corporate set matches wall to wall. Across a page of high-quality images, that consistency matters more than any single frame.
from $10.00 per photo
- Colour and white-balance correction
- Light skin-tone evening
- Under-eye shadow reduced
- Blemish and shine removal
- Stray-hair tidy
- Background tone matched
Headshot editing and skin smoothing.
Our most ordered combination, and the standard for headshot retouching services and professional headshots. Frequency separation evens tone without touching texture, then dodge and burn shapes the light by hand rather than with a preset.
For professional results, a client should not be able to point at what changed, only notice the person looks well. If you want an area left alone, say so and it stays untouched.
from $10.00 per photo
- Everything in natural clean-up
- Hand dodge and burn shaping
- Teeth whitening
- Frequency-separation skin work
- Eye brightening and catchlights
- Refined colour grade
High-end beauty retouching and editorial.
High-end beauty retouching is for frames where the skin itself is the subject, or the image will be enlarged. Every pass is worked at 200%: makeup refined, hair detailed strand by strand, clothing pressed, and light shaped across the whole face.
This is the level that survives print at size and close inspection, which is why retouching studios and editorial teams outsource cosmetics campaigns here.
from $15.00 per photo
- Everything in professional retouch
- Strand-level hair detailing
- Full-face light shaping
- Makeup refinement
- Clothing and wrinkle work
- Background clean or replace
What makes a best-in-class portrait retouch..
Six checks every portrait passes before release. After sixteen years of retouching portraits, this list is what separates the best portrait retouching services from a smoothing filter, and new hires learn it in week one.
01
Pores survive at 200%
Zoom to twice actual size and skin still has surface. If image quality drops, texture goes waxy or cheeks go flat, the frame is reworked, not shipped.
02
The person is still recognisable
Permanent marks, freckles, and expression lines stay unless you asked otherwise. We remove what is temporary, never what is characteristic.
03
Eyes and teeth read as healthy
Brightened enough to look awake, never enough to glow. A pushed eye or pure-white tooth is the fastest way to make an edit obvious.
04
Light is physically consistent
Dodge and burn follows the key light that was actually on set. Shaping that argues with the original lighting looks wrong even when nobody can say why.
05
Grade holds across the set
Skin tones checked frame to frame, not one at a time. A gallery where warmth drifts between images undoes the work on every individual file.
06
Spec sheet obeyed
Crop, canvas size, output format, layer structure, and file name checked against your sheet. Consistency across a delivery is what clients notice later.
Sixteen years as a professional portrait retouching service provider.
A retouch looks simple until you zoom in. This is what stands behind our professional portrait photo retouching services, stated plainly.
2010
2M+ images delivered
Single headshots through to 3,000-frame wedding galleries and cosmetics campaigns for professional photographers, alongside our jewelry photo retouching for product brands. We have met most faces, lighting setups and briefs this craft can throw at us.
22+
Editors on portrait retouching alone
A specialized portrait team of 22+ professional retouchers, five of them Adobe Certified in Photoshop. Unlike a general photo editing company, nobody rotates in from a cutout queue for a beauty frame.
98.6%
First-pass approval
Measured across every retouch order. When a frame does come back, the reason is logged and the editor who worked it sees the note.
NDA
Written commitments
Signed NDAs, encrypted transfer, and revisions until the skin holds at 200%. Unreleased campaign work stays in a separate clean-room queue.
What we see go wrong in photographers’ files.
Most difficult retouches were made difficult on set. These six portrait photography issues cost our editors the most time, and each one is cheap to avoid before the shutter clicks.
Heavy-handed presets baked in
A JPEG exported with clarity and contrast already pushed has lost the tonal room we need. Send the raw files and let us open them flat
Blown highlights on skin
A clipped forehead or nose has no data left to recover. We can paint tone back in, but that is reconstruction rather than retouching.
Mixed colour temperature
Window light on one cheek and tungsten on the other splits the skin into two tones. Correcting it evenly is slow, and it never fully disappears.
Soft focus on the eyes
If the eyes are not sharp, no amount of local work makes the portrait feel alive. Sharpening a soft iris just produces a crunchy soft iris.
No reference on the first order
Ten portraits, ten interpretations of “natural”. Five minutes agreeing a reference on the trial saves a revision round on every batch after it.
Flattened files requested by mistake
If your team plans to adjust the grade later, ask for layered PSD. A flattened JPEG means paying again for work you already own.
Professional photo retouching vs. the alternatives.
A preset costs nothing and an AI filter costs almost nothing. If you are comparing the best portrait retouching services online, this is where a human retoucher earns the difference, and where they do not.
| Hand retouching | Lightroom preset | Ai portrait filter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps real skin texture | ✓ Pores intact | Partly | ✗ Smoothed |
| Removes blemishes selectively | ✓ Per mark | ✗ Global only | ✗ Averages the face |
| Person stays recognisable | ✓ Always | ✓ | ✗ Features shift |
| Consistent across a set | ✓ QC checked | Varies by frame | Varies by face |
| Editable later by your team | ✓ Layered PSD | Settings only | ✗ Flattened |
| Cost per photo | From $2 | Near zero | Near zero |
Sunil Barman, Retouch & Colour Lead
Sunil runs our portrait retouching floor and the 22-editor team inside it. He has spent ten years on portrait, beauty and editorial work, wrote the six-point retouch standard on this page, and signs off every new client’s first batch.
Portrait photo editing services, answered.
Portrait retouching services start at $2 per photo for skin retouching, blemish removal, teeth and eye correction or hair cleanup. Glasses glare removal is $5 per photo, and full finishes run from $2 to $14. You only pay for what each photo needs.
Yes. Every photo retouching service is priced on its own, so you can order glare removal only, or teeth and eyes only. Most clients combine two or three services per portrait.
Yes. We use frequency separation and hand dodge and burn, so skin keeps its real pores. Temporary marks are removed, while freckles, lines and the features that make a person recognisable stay.
Frequency separation retouching splits a portrait into two layers: one for colour and tone, one for fine texture. Editors even out skin tone on the first layer without blurring pores on the second, so skin still looks real.
Yes. Monthly orders over $500 get 15% off, over $2,000 get 25% off, and over $5,000 get 35% off, plus a dedicated retoucher and a 12-hour SLA. Discounts apply automatically, with no contract.
Standard turnaround is 24 hours, or 12 hours on a priority plan. Galleries of 500+ photos take two to three working days. For clients looking for portrait retouching services in USA, the UK, Canada or Australia, the same 24-hour turnaround applies.
JPEG, TIFF or layered PSD, in your own naming and folder structure, via Google Drive, Dropbox or FTP. A layered PSD lets your team adjust any pass later.
Yes. Send a few finished images or a reference frame and we match your skin finish, contrast and grade. Ongoing clients get a saved house-style profile, so our portrait editing stays consistent batch after batch.
Yes. Our headshot retouching services cover corporate, actor and LinkedIn headshots, with skin retouching, stray hair cleanup and background matching so a whole team looks consistent. Most headshots use the professional finish, from $5 per photo.
Yes. We retouch 3 portraits free, with no card and no commitment, so you can zoom in and check the finish at 200% before you order.
Send 3 portraits. Zoom in yourself.
No card, no commitment. Before you choose a portrait retouching services company, test us: we will run our portrait retouching services on your own frames and deliver them at full resolution within 24 hours.