Retouching
We Can Help With Those Picky Customers
You finally got that big print order. You knew Grandma couldn't resist buying a monster wall-print. After all, the image you made of her with her three-year-old granddaughter is just so precious. As you begin to thank her for the order, she leans in and whispers
“just be sure to make me look good.”
You immediately begin to sweat. You’ve heard that before and know exactly what it means. It means if Grandma returns and you haven’t made her look years younger, like she actually gets eight hours of sleep each night, has no stress in her life, but looks like ‘herself,’ then you’re in big trouble. You also know that you don’t have the skill and time to do it yourself.
Take a breath, stop sweating and let Silverback take care of the retouching for you. Not only do we have the skills to do the job, we’ll make sure Grandma loves you!
Bundled Retouching
Our ‘Bundled’ Retouching Services provide the best value for images that have multiple issues requiring our attention. There are two levels of ’bundled’ retouching services - Basic and Advanced.
Basic Retouching ($20 per image):
Select this option for images that contain multiple, minor, issues that require our attention. It includes these services:
- Color correction for proper white balance, contrast, skin tone, and density
- Simple skin retouching: limited blemish and wrinkle removal or softening
- Simple teeth retouching: brightness and color
- Eyelashes/Eyebrow: burn-in, simple enhance
- Simple eye retouching: whites, brightness and color
- Simple stray hair removal
Advanced Retouching ($45 per image):
Select this option for images that contain multiple, more extensive, issues that require our attention. It includes these services:
- Color-correction for proper white balance, contrast, skin tone, and density
- Advanced skin retouching: extensive blemish and wrinkle removal or softening, soften/smooth skin
- Advanced teeth retouching: remove braces and major repair
- Advanced eyebrow retouching: reshape, fix fly-aways, enhance
- Advanced eye retouching: whites, brightness and color
- Lips: shape and remove makeup lines
- Advanced hair retouching: remove fly-aways, fill gaps, adjust color
à la carte Retouching
If you want to pick-and-choose the specific services you need for each image, then consider our à la carte retouching services. You choose and pay for only the services each image needs.
Your Image Specialist will color correct your image prior to performing the services you order. This correction is included in the à la cart price.
| à la carte | |||
| Service | Includes | RAW | JPEG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dust Spot Removal | Simple: Correct minor image spotting caused by dust on camera sensor. Choose this option if your image contains only a few sensor dust spots that need to be removed which are not in a location or locations in the image that are difficult and time consuming to remove. | $5.00 per Image | |
| Advanced: Correct extensive image spotting caused by dust on camera sensor. Choose this option if your image contains many sensor dust spots that need to be removed and/or are in a location or locations in the image that are difficult to remove. | $20.00 per Image | ||
| Eye Retouching | Simple: Perform minor enhancement to the whites, brightness, and color of eyes. | $5.00 per Image | |
| Advanced: Perform advanced enhancement to the whites, brightness, and color of eyes. | $20.00 per Image | ||
| Eyebrow Retouching | Simple: Perform minor eyebrow adjustment to enhance their look. | $ 5.00 per Image | |
| Skin Retouching | Simple: Perform limited blemish and wrinkle removal or softening. | $5.00 per Image | |
| Advanced: Perform extensive skin retouching. Extensive blemish and wrinkle removal/softening, soften skin. | $20.00 per Image | ||
| Teeth Retouching | Simple: Brighten teeth and adjust color. | $5.00 per Image | |
| Advanced: Perform extensive teeth retouching. Remove braces, make major teeth repairs. | $20.00 per Image | ||
| Advanced Lip Retouching | Perform extensive lip retouching. Shape lips and remove makeup lines. | $20.00 per Image | |
| If you order a 'Simple' service but we determine that your image actually requires a more advanced retouching service, we will bill you for the difference in price between the services. | |||
Custom Retouching
Select our Custom Retouching Service for each image that contains extensive issues that require our attention. We will provide an estimate for these services after evaluating each image.
Upload your image(s) for evaluation and estimate from within our shopping cart with your order.
After approval of our estimate, you will be billed at a rate of $75.00 per hour for this service. It may include:
- Custom color correction for proper white balance, contrast, skin tone, and density
- Advanced manipulation (liquify)
- Compositing
- Extreme stylizing effects
- Image Restoration
- or other types of extensive corrections.
You will be billed $5 at the time you request an estimate which will be credited to your final invoice should you accept our estimate. Otherwise, it is non-refundable.