Photo retouching — editing portraits, photo shoots and product photos
People order photo retouching for one shot or a whole shoot: to fix the light, remove an extra person from the frame or prepare an old portrait for a headstone. In an order, say how many photos you have and what to do with them, and retouchers will respond. Or choose one by before-and-after shots.
Retouchers
How much photo retouching costs
What affects the price
Depth of retouching
A quick fix of light and color, skin retouching with frequency separation and artistic editing with compositing take very different amounts of time per shot.
Number of shots
The price is usually per photo, while a series from one shoot, edited in one style, is often priced as a package.
The source file
A RAW file gives more room for correction than a photo compressed by a messenger. A dark or blurry shot takes longer, and not every one can be saved.
Complex edits
Moving a person onto a new background, hair and all, removing someone from the shot, changing clothes or taking a portrait out of a group photo are jobs usually charged separately.
Requirements for the final file
A file for large-format printing, a layout for engraving on granite and photos for a marketplace with its own size and background rules are each prepared differently.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a retoucher
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a retoucher
- 1
Before and after
Ask to see pairs of photos before and after editing: a finished shot alone does not show how much the retoucher did.
- 2
Natural skin
Zoom in on portfolio photos: after good retouching you can still see pores and skin texture, and the face stays recognizable.
- 3
Experience with your genre
Portrait retouching, product photo editing and preparing a portrait for a headstone are different skills. Look for a retoucher whose portfolio has exactly your kind of work.
- 4
Test photo and revisions
Ask whether you can start with one test shot and how many rounds of revisions are included in the price.
- 5
Your photos in the portfolio
Agree whether the retoucher may show your shots in their portfolio. Also check the format and size of the finished files.
What to put in the order
How many photos to edit and what is in them: portraits, a photo shoot, products or an old photo
What to do: light and color, skin retouching, background replacement, removing extra objects
What source file you have: RAW, JPEG from a camera, a scan or a phone photo
What the photos are for: print, website, marketplace, social media or a headstone — and what size
Two or three examples of editing you like
When you need the finished files
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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