High-End Photo Retouching Service
Skin, product and beauty retouch — dodge & burn, blemish and reflection cleanup. Drag the handle on each sample below to compare before and after.
Color Experts International has run a high-end photo retouching service for 40 years, with 250+ in-house editors producing the kind of work shown in the gallery above. We specialize in beauty and skin retouching built on hand-painted dodge and burn, product cleanup for bottles and candles, and jewelry polish precise enough for macro crops. Standard delivery is 24 hours; rush orders ship in 4 to 12.
What Our High-End Photo Retouching Service Includes
Every image in the samples above was finished by hand, and that is the standard for everything we deliver. For beauty and skin work, our editors use dodge and burn and frequency separation to even tone while keeping pore-level texture intact — no plastic skin, no smeared detail. Product retouching covers reflection and dust cleanup on glass and bottles, wax and wick correction on candles, wrinkle and drape refinement on garments like the dress in our gallery, and true-to-swatch color for makeup and cosmetics. Jewelry gets its own treatment: metal polishing, stone brightening, prong cleanup, and reflection rebuilding on rings and fine pieces. Every order also includes background cleanup, sensor-dust removal, and delivery in the formats your workflow expects, from layered PSD to web-ready JPEG.
How Your Images Move Through Our Studio
Send files through our upload portal, or get a quote if the project needs scoping first. A project manager confirms scope and price, then routes each image to an editor who specializes in that category — a jewelry retoucher works your rings, a beauty specialist handles skin. Before delivery, every image passes a separate quality-control review where a second editor checks texture, color, and edge work at 100 percent zoom. If anything misses your brief, flag it and we revise. For recurring catalogs, we build a style guide from your first approved batch so image 4,000 matches image 4.
Who This Service Is For
High-end photo retouching is for images that will be examined closely: campaign heroes, product detail pages, lookbooks, and print. Cosmetics and skincare brands use us for skin and packaging shots. Jewelry retailers send rings and fine pieces that need clean metal and bright stones at extreme magnification. Apparel brands and fashion photographers send garment and model imagery. E-commerce sellers send catalog volume that has to stay consistent across thousands of SKUs. That range is why Amazon, MGM, and more than 12,000 other brands send their retouching here rather than staffing it internally.
Turnaround and Pricing
Standard turnaround is 24 hours, and rush delivery runs 4 to 12 hours when a launch cannot wait. Our services start at $0.20 per image, with high-end retouching priced by the complexity of each job — the calculator on our pricing page gives you an instant estimate from your image count and requirements. If you would rather see proof before spending anything, our free trial covers two images at full production quality. For large catalogs or unusual specs, get a quote and a project manager will respond with firm pricing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes retouching high-end rather than basic?
Time and technique. Basic editing applies global fixes — exposure, cropping, quick blemish removal. High-end retouching is manual, pixel-level work: dodge and burn on individual highlights, frequency separation that treats texture and tone independently, and reflections rebuilt by hand. The difference shows at full zoom and in print, where automated fixes fall apart.
How fast can you deliver retouched images?
Retouched files come back within 24 hours on the standard service, and rush jobs deliver in 4 to 12 hours depending on volume and complexity. Because our 250+ editors work in-house, large catalog batches run in parallel rather than in a queue, so a 500-image order does not wait behind itself.
Can I test the quality on my own photos before paying?
Yes. Send two images through our free trial and we will retouch them at full production quality, no payment details required. If the results meet your standard, price the full project with the calculator on our pricing page or get a quote for custom work.