Editing and Retouching
Mood Enhancement / Editing
Editing styles ranging from light and airy to dark and moody adapted to the client’s needs.
Discussions around ideal aesthetic, coming up with a completely new editing process specific to the client’s desires to help them stand out.
Before: Dull colors, skin roughness and discoloration, distracting details in sand
After: The client wanted a moody color palette with creamy highlights. Smoothed skin, cleaned up the sand, cropped for better composition.
Before: Color palette lacking depth, cool/gray toned
After: The client wanted a “film” edit. Temperature increased, added a hint of green to shadows, reds to highlights, added haze and grain to enhance film appearance.
Before: Pale color palette, not sharp
After: The client wanted a moody, contrasted edit. Skin softened, color palette warmed and contrasted to make a bit moodier, sharpened.
Cohesive Brand Identity
Bright, dreamy edit. Lightened shadows and a hazy effect.
Dark, moody edit. Darker shadows and poppy contrast.
Skin Retouching
Blemish removal and skin smoothing.
Ranges from simple blemish removal to skin smoothing while maintaining skin’s natural texture—different strengths available.
Color Correcting / Basic Edits / Clone Tool
Properly exposed, color balanced photos set a solid foundation to make further, more impactful edits for the mood the client is going for.
RGB to CMYK conversion.
Distracting detail removal.
Before
After: brightness brought up to proper exposure, red/orange tones desaturated, levels fixed, contrast bumped a touch creating a nice blank palette to apply further edits.
Before
After: tourists in background removed