Toronto Photo Retouching
When you want to make a lasting impression and look your best, professional photo retouching is essential for helping your images stand out.
Our retouching services include two key components: photo correction and photo enhancement.
Photo Correction ensures your images meet minimum professional standards. This includes improving aspects like brightness, contrast, colour, sharpness, and cropping, as well as addressing any technical issues.
Photo Enhancement takes your images to the next level. For portraits, this means removing blemishes, stray hairs, minimizing wrinkles, brightening eyes and teeth, and balancing skin tones.
Every business photo can benefit from retouching, whether it’s headshots, group photos, event coverage, product shots, or images of your office and facilities. Utilizing retouching for your website, social media, newsletters, and media handouts is crucial for presenting your brand effectively.
Retouching isn't just for fashion models or advertisements of luxury products. Retouching is for any photo that's important to you or your business.
Polish your photos, amplify your story.
What we do
Business Headshot Retouching
Business portraits are one of the most effective marketing tools available. They offer a powerful and easy way to connect with your customers.
But if your headshot isn’t properly edited, you risk sending the wrong message.
Headshot retouching isn’t about vanity. It’s about harnessing the full potential of photography.
Retouching corrects technical flaws in your portrait and minimizes blemishes and distractions. A polished appearance enhances your attractiveness and boosts perceptions of your competence and likability—a phenomenon known as the Halo Effect.
Retouching business headshots is my most requested service.
Retouching Business Photos
Pictures capture attention in ways that text simply can't. The saying "show, don’t tell" holds true. If you're not leveraging photography to promote your business, you’re missing a vital opportunity to stand out.
Every business has photos that could benefit from retouching. These images need to create a strong, positive impression on viewers. High-quality images play a crucial role in shaping a company’s brand identity.
Photo retouching can enhance your website images, business conference photos, product shots, and other marketing images. With well-finished photos, your business presents a more professional image to potential customers.
Retouching for Real Estate and Architecture
Retouching photos of homes and offices is essential when these properties are up for sale. Properly finished images attract more viewers and can lead to higher selling prices.
Professionally retouched photos of interiors and exteriors are important for the portfolios of home builders, renovators, architects, designers, and other businesses in the design and construction industry.
Using cellphone snaps or amateur-looking photos to showcase your work is counterproductive. High-quality retouching elevates your images, allowing your company to shine.
Retouching Family and Wedding Photos
Casual family and wedding photos are all about capturing genuine moments, and they don’t need to be perfect. Our emotional connection to the people in those images allows us to overlook any imperfections.
But if there’s something you can’t overlook or if you plan to display or print the photos, retouching can make a difference. It can enhance both the photo and its subjects, helping you cherish those memories even more.
Commercial Photo Retouching
Almost all commercial images you see, have been edited or retouched to some extent. There's good reason for this.
Well-finished images not only look better but they also capture viewer attention more effectively. When viewers are engaged, they become more interested, making them more receptive to your business message.
Professional retouching elevates the perceived value of your brand and helps you stand out to potential customers.
Retouching is a crucial final step before presenting commercial images to the public. Better pictures, better story.
Why Hire Us
Canadian Photo Retouching
- All retouching done in Toronto. Nothing is sub-contracted to low-paid workers in other countries.
- You are in direct contact with the person retouching your photos.
- Over 25 years of digital retouching experience.
- Every photo is retouched individually. It's never about speed.
- Perfection may not exist but good enough isn't.
- You see finished proofs before you pay. If you don't like the results, you can cancel without owing a cent.
How It Works
Photo Retouching
Send your digital image(s) and a description of what you want done. I work only with digital files.
Initially you can send a smaller version of your photo(s). But I need the largest version available for the retouching. Working with a large image allows for finer and more accurate edits.
- You will receive a quote based on $140/hour. Only after you've agreed to the price will the retouching be done. Turnaround time depends on the number of images and the complexity of the retouching.
- You will receive a watermarked proof of the finished photo(s).
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(s).
If the retouching doesn't meet your needs, I can do one revision or you can cancel the work without any cost to you.
- It's important that you make backup copies of the retouched photo(s) because I do not keep any copies.
Testimonials
Our customers have said:
These are great, thanks so much! The retouching is better than I imagined it could be. Thank you! Perfect.
Thank you! It is amazing! The black/white option definitely helped. Thank you very much! You are the best!
The photos look great. I've sent them off to the client. Thanks for the quick turnaround!
Featured Blog Posts
Photo Retouching
Why do you use spell-check? To fix spelling mistakes that would otherwise make you look unprofessional.
Why retouch a photograph? To fix mistakes in a picture that would otherwise make you look unprofessional.
Retouching Business Photos
Photo retouching isn’t just for business portraits. Real estate pictures need retouching to fix exposure and colour and to straighten walls. Product photos usually need to have dust, fingerprints and reflections removed. Most business photos can benefit from retouching because professionally retouched photos make your business look good.
Turning Back The Clock
Photo retouching is the fountain of youth? Good retouching will improve your portrait but it shouldn’t make you look younger. Instead it should make you look your best.
A Close Shave
One of the more difficult, if not impossible, retouching tasks is removing facial hair. Removing a beard or moustache can be impossible to do because the facial hair has to be replaced by realistic-looking skin that matches the person's face. Also, the photo retoucher has no idea what the person’s jaw and mouth look like under the facial hair.
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Professional-looking photos will enhance the perceived value of your business. Retouching helps ensure that your photos send the right message.