Image Editing & Graphic Design
Beauty & Glamor Retouching
Detailed beauty retouching for skin, hair, makeup and features, keeping people recognizable and skin texture real.
- Price
- From $0.99 per image
- Free trial
- 2 images, edited to your brief, no card, no commitment.
Part of Portrait Retouching. How the work runs and what it costs across the family are set out in the image editing & graphic design guide.
What Beauty & Glamor Retouching covers
8 services under this heading. Each is priced for the work it actually involves rather than averaged into one rate.
Portrait Cleaning & Enhancement
Removing temporary blemishes, stray hairs and distractions, and balancing light and color on the face.
Priced per project
Facial Feature Enhancement
Gentle enhancement of eyes, lips and brows, brightening and sharpening without changing a person's actual features.
Priced per project
Skin Tone Correction
Correcting uneven or inaccurate skin tones caused by lighting, so people look healthy and true to life across a set.
Priced per project
Hair Retouching
Taming flyaway hairs, filling thin patches and smoothing hair texture, one of the most time-consuming parts of beauty re...
Priced per project
Age Reduction Retouching
Subtle softening of lines and shadows that makes someone look rested rather than altered, done with restraint.
Priced per project
Clothing & Accessories Enhancement
Removing lint, creases and stains from clothing and polishing jewelry and accessories in portraits.
Priced per project
Background Enhancement
Cleaning up and improving portrait backgrounds, removing distractions or adding a studio backdrop without affecting the...
Priced per project
Skin Makeup & Digital Airbrushing
Evening skin tone and refining makeup digitally, keeping pores and texture visible so skin still looks like skin.
Priced per project
Rates and common questions for this work are on the Image Editing & Graphic Design page.
How we approach this work
Articles from the journal, written by the people who do this work. More on this subject →
Portrait Retouching Ethics Explained
A symptom-by-symptom manual for portrait retouching ethics: spot over-smoothing, consent gaps and ad compliance risks, fix them, and prevent them next time.
Image Editing & RetouchingA Practical Guide to Clipping Paths and Cut-Outs
Learn when to use a clipping path or a mask, how to place paths and finish edges without halos, and how to keep cut-outs consistent across a full catalog.
Image Editing & RetouchingColor Management, Done Properly
Learn how profiles, working spaces, display calibration and soft-proofing keep color consistent from the editor to the browser to the printed page.
Often combined with Beauty & Glamor Retouching
The work that usually sits either side of this one. One team handles all of it, under one brief.
Image Delivery & Asset Management
Organizing, storing and delivering images after a shoot, so the right files reach the right places and can be found year...
Priced per project
Studio Setup & Lighting Design
Lighting and studio setups designed for your products, documented so the same look can be recreated at every future shoo...
Priced per project
Logo Design
Designing a logo and the full set of versions it needs, from the primary mark to icons, favicons and single-color varian...
Priced per project
Brand Strategy
Deciding who the brand is for, what makes it different and how it should sound, before any design work starts.
Priced per project
Automation & Flow Design
Automated email sequences triggered by what customers do, such as signing up, browsing or buying, so the right message a...
Priced per project
3D Modeling
Clean topology, correct scale, ready for what happens next.
From $49.00 per model
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