A good sitting, straight out of camera
This is what a headshot photographer delivers to us after a sitting. The pose and the expression are right, but the frame is not finished: the gray paper backdrop is blotchy, a light stand and the backdrop chains show at the right edge, the concrete floor and the end of the paper roll show at the bottom, and the whole picture is a little flat and cool.
Who uses this
- Headshot photographers who shoot volume and outsource retouching
- Studios with corporate clients that expect a consistent finish
- Marketing teams preparing leadership photos for a website
How the edit is handled
A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, tightens the crop slightly and levels it, then evens the paper into a soft gradient. The stand, the chains, the floor and the paper roll are removed, and the backdrop is continued down behind her so the frame reads as one clean sweep.
Then the portrait itself: the hair is brightened so the blonde highlights show, the skin is brightened and evened with a light touch, and the eyes are cleaned up. Her face shape, features and expression stay as shot, so colleagues recognize her at once. Finally the frame is graded: warmer skin, a neutral gray background and a touch more contrast. The same recipe can be applied to a whole team so every portrait matches.
What to upload
Send the selected frames, and tell us the crop your client needs and how much skin retouching they want.
Photos
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headshot.jpg
1 credit ($8)
1 photo to edit
Instructions
Standard retouch please: clean the backdrop, remove the light stand and floor, and warm up the color.
Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos
The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.
