retouching & art

Our lab offers a full line of image retouching and art services. If you need us to be your “behind-the-scenes employee” on a regular basis, we are always here on the job – you can rely on us! Or if you just want to use us for overflow work or special projects, we have the expertise to handle the job quickly and efficiently!

Because we have established a fixed cost for the most common digital art, no estimate or approval is needed for these items. This allows you to better communicate costs to your customer up front without having to wait for an estimate. Extreme cases of any situation being corrected may require time based digital art.

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face

  • Remove blemishes
  • Soften wrinkles on face and neckline
  • Soften eye bags

  • Remove blemishes

  • All lines, blemishes, wrinkles and eye bags are completely removed
  • The skin is smoothed extensively
  • An over-retouched look

  • Remove blemishes
  • Soften eye bags
  • Soften deep lines
  • Stray hair removal
  • Toning down facial shine

Always includes:

  • Facial retouching (heavy for girls, lighter for boys)
  • Simple eye enhancement
  • Saturation pop (background, clothing, props only)
  • Black vignette

Includes when needed:

  • Blending/evening skin tones
  • Toning down facial shine
  • Teeth whitening
  • Slimming
  • Stray hair removal
  • Small object removal
  • Simple glass glare removal
  • Toning down hot spots
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eyes

  • Remove Glass Glare when less than 25% of eyeglass surface

  • Remove distortion of facial features caused by eyeglass lens

  • Add or remove a highlight in the iris of the eye

  • Sharpen edges of iris or pupil
  • Brighten catchlight
  • Define eyelashes
  • Remove small red veins and secondary catch lights

  • Sharpen edge of iris
  • Bring out color
  • Brighten catchlight
  • Remove veins
  • Brighten whites
  • Remove secondary catchlights
  • Slightly add/enhance eyelashes & soften highlight on iris opposite catchlight

  • Provide image containing eyes to be inserted. Both images must be similar in exposure and positioning.

  • Adjustment of a subject’s eyes to make both the same size
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hair

  • Removal of large chunks of hair.

  • Smoothing extreme frizziness around the hairline

  • Addition of hair to a subject to fill in thinned areas
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teeth

  • Reduce yellowing or staining on teeth

  • Select Remove Braces when teeth do not need to be reconstructed. This will remove the bands/wires but leave the teeth as crooked as they currently appear.

  • This service will remove all bands/wires, but will also reconstruct the teeth to show what they will likely look like straightened once the orthodontic treatment is finished.

  • Create up to two missing teeth

  • Addition or reconstruction of three or more teeth
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entire body

  • Blend skin tones to reduce the appearance of tan lines

  • Please provide images similar in exposure and positioning

  • Reduce wrinkles by 50% on surfaces without patters - complete removal is not recommend

  • Reduce wrinkles by 50% on surfaces without patters - complete removal is not recommend

  • Reduce wrinkles by 50% on surfaces without patters - complete removal is not recommend

  • Trim areas of the body to be proportional

  • Trim areas of the body to be proportional

  • Trim areas of the body to be proportional

  • Match skin tones of multiple people within the same image

  • Removal of wrinkles in clothing when moiré or pattern exists

  • Size and exposure must be similar; light quality (its intensity, direction, color, contrast, & ratio) must match on both images

  • Blend blotchy skin on an individual subject
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entire image

Spot Color Examples

Spot color may be used in two different ways; either change the image to black & white leaving only a selective bit in its original color, or leave the image in color and request a selective bit be changed to a different color. Specify your preferences in the retouching instructions in hhstudio.

  • The effect of a soft focus filter applied digitally to the entire image

  • A sharpening filter is applied to the entire image to sharpen the edges. This is not recommended for extremely noisy or pixilated images because it can enhance noise.

  • Moderately sharpen the entire image
  • Depending on the degree of softness, some images are beyond repair

  • Remove spots on the image caused by dirt on camera sensor

  • Tone down, not complete removal of shadow(s)

  • Complete removal of shadow(s)

  • Please send reference image showing specific areas to be dodged - no additional corrections

  • Please send reference image showing specific areas to be dodged - no additional corrections

  • When burning and dodging alone are not enough
  • Requires additional correction or enhancement in detail

  • Blend the line between backdrop and floor in studio backgrounds

  • Replace existing sky

  • Portrait background or without detail or texture.
  • Second image must be provided if objects need to be extended beyond 30% on any given side.

  • Foreground/background extensions when the area to be extended includes texture, trees, objects, structures, etc.

  • A new background of your choice should be provided to replace the existing one.
  • Requires no extra manipulation

  • A new background of your choice should be provided to replace the existing one.
  • Requires no extra manipulation

  • Tone down up to 4 spots - must have some detail.
  • Spots larger than head size darkened by 50%.
  • Artwork cannot remove all hot spots.

  • Tone down 5 or more large hot spots when no detail is present

  • Tone down 5 or more large hot spots when no detail is present

  • Remove small objects (up to 3) smaller than the image head size

  • Remove moiré pattern or stripes in image (usually in clothing)

  • Enhance image to reduce the effects of underexposure created during capture.

  • Reduce camera flare or circles of confusion that may give the impression of underexposure

  • Repair damage such as scratches, rips, pinholes, flares, etc.

  • Restore an old or damaged image to an acceptable state when possible

  • Eliminate color from an object or specific area of an image

  • Our digital artists carefully “paint” every pixel of your image to achieve a painting effect. This is not a Photoshop filter. The results, especially when combined with canvas mounting, will mimic an actual oil painting. We suggest printing these on our digital inkjet canvas paper to achieve a fine art effect.

  • Custom design a multi-image canvas

  • Choose a black or white vignette at 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%

  • Order custom art when you need to request a service which is not available as a one of the specific art services listed above. A reference image must be submitted with your order to show the artist what you would like to have done. Up to 1500 characters of text may be sent to describe your request. A CD of the finished image is automatically provided with this service.
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how to order

To order this product download our hhstudio software.

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archiving

After the order has shipped, all retouched images are available for download at no additional charge.

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prices

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