Team Headshot Retouching

A team portrait that stops at the edge of the backdrop

Three colleagues stand together for the photo that will lead a firm's About page. The photographer got the grouping and the expressions, but the frame is straight out of camera: it is dark and flat, the gray backdrop is too narrow for three people, and a window, two light stands, the corner of a softbox and a monitor all sit inside the picture.

Who uses this

• Headshot photographers who shoot a whole office in a day and outsource the finishing
• Marketing teams who need a leadership or partner photo for the website
• Small firms whose group photo was taken in a tight room with the gear in view

How the edit is handled

A human editor, with AI tools assisting where they help, extends the gray backdrop to fill the frame as one even tone and removes the window, the stands, the softbox and the monitor. The exposure is lifted and the color balanced, so the dark suits keep their detail and skin tones look natural.

The light is then evened across the group, so the person nearest the edge is not darker than the one in the middle. The faces are left as shot: eyes, mouths, skin texture and expressions are not redrawn, and everyone keeps the position, the pose and the clothes from the original frame. Colleagues should recognize each other at once.

When the same team also has individual headshots, tell us and the backdrop tone and the color are matched across the set, so the page reads as one shoot.

What to upload

Send the frame you picked, at full size. Tell us the backdrop you want (the same gray made even, or a different tone), the crop the page needs, and whether anyone has a temporary blemish to clean up.

How group photos are priced

What sets the price of a group photo is how many people need work and how involved the request is, not how many people are in the picture. As a general guide, retouching up to three people is 1 credit, and four to eight people is 2 credits. For nine or more, the editor looks at the request and the resolution and tells you the price before starting. If only one person in a large group needs retouching, it is still 1 credit. Nothing extra is charged unless you agree.

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.