Are you looking for professional and cheap retouching services to make your studio or outdoor photos look good fast and for affordable price? The Internet is full of many offers but it is very difficult to choose one worthy image retouching provider. Such a search can take much time and money.
I decided to simplify this task for you by sending my portrait to 10 popular photo retouching companies which were taken from this photo editing services review. I analyzed the results and chose the best services that coped with all my requirements well.
I ordered portrait retouching at ten professional photo retouching sites, specifying the following requirements:
- Smooth skin tone and make it more natural
- Remove stray hairs on face and shoulders
- Make hair look neater and volume
- Apply Dodge & Burn
- Brighten the colors
- Airbrush skin making it high-end
1. FixThePhoto
Quality 10/10
Speed 9/10
Price 10/10
Usability 10/10
FixThePhoto is a professional retouching service that covers a very wide range of services from $2 per image. The specialists work with wedding, portrait, real estate, and other types of photography. In addition, the company has an online store where you can download free Photoshop actions and free Lightroom presets.
Having explored FixThePhoto website, I was convinced that this service could be trusted. I placed an order and received a response from the manager in several seconds. He was surprised that I ordered one image. However, realizing that I was a rather unusual customer, my order was accepted and sent to the retouchers’ team very quickly.
I got the result in half of a day. I paid $5 for my image, but you can order cheaper services if you do not need the Pro Retouch. I got the highest quality work with clean image retouching and pleasant color correction. Look what they did with her hair and face skin. You may see the photo editing of such quality on advertising billboards, but my photo costs only $5!
2. WeEditPhotos
Quality 10/10
Speed 8/10
Price 10/10
Usability 10/10
The main direction of WeEditPhotos company is portrait and wedding photo retouching services for about $5 per image. Most of before and after examples presented on the website refer to this type of photography.
I received the finished photo in 20 hours. As you noticed, I had to wait a little longer than in the case of FixThePhoto. The result was great. I cannot even finally decide which of these retouch services is better: WeEditPhotos or FixThePhoto. Image retouching cost me just $5, and I think it is worth the money!
If you take a closer look and compare this photo with the FixThePhoto’s result, you can see that the hair retouching was performed a little differently. They left the same shape and white balance, but this does not mean that such photo editing is bad. The light-shadow pattern is made perfectly.
3. Wedding-Retouching
Quality 10/10
Speed 8/10
Price 10/10
Usability 9/10
I did not know whether this service is engaged in any type of photography except wedding pictures, but it turned out that they work with a wide variety of images and offer photo retouching services as well.
However, they have special offers just for wedding photographers. Image retouching examples are really decent. I like their style of color correction. Photos get such a gentle glow.
The photo retouching cost me $5, which is the usual price for this type of work, but if you order several wedding photos, they will cost almost half the price.
Referring to my order, the retouchers changed the background color slightly and added more clear lines to shadows. I like the way they airbrushed her skin, lighten it, and eliminated imperfections.
4. High End Beauty Retouching
Quality 10/10
Speed 8/10
Price 5/10
Usability 9/10
High End Beauty Retouching cannot be called cheap retouching services, as it offers high-quality, professional photo editing. I wondered what result I would get by ordering services from real experts?
The site’s design is quite simple but there are many magazine examples of edited photos. Their photographs are high-end edited and look like magazine covers. I chose the cheapest $10 High-End photo retouching and this is the lowest price they have.
The picture retouching is done very carefully with an eye for details. Their Dodge & Burn is especially cool. Skin retouching is made in classic fashion style. Some volume is added to the hair. This is really a High-End level. Recommend.
5. NudeRetouching
Quality 8/10
Speed 8/10
Price 9/10
Usability 8/10
This is the most unusual site from this cheap retouching services list. It specializes in enhancing boudoir and nude photos. My picture did not fit into this framework, but the NudeRetouching team kindly agreed to edit it.
The company’s website looks pretty good. It is designed in calm dark shades. There are many examples of very good quality that you may view in high resolution.
On the following day, I received the finished order back. I like the way they work with the skin. They correct flaws, but the texture looks quite natural. I ordered photo retouching for $5 and was not disappointed in their work, but the strip from the hair on the forehead confused me, as well as the hair retouching.
6. Image Editing HQ
Quality 6/10
Speed 8/10
Price 7/10
Usability 6/10
Despite its outdated design, product photo editing samples are at a good level. The company works on clipping path and product photo editing, but portrait photography retouching is available on their services list too.
The price is very inaccurate — everything starts from $0.99. I paid $4.50 for my picture. I do not like the color correction of her skin and lips, the hair on the right side of the face was not removed. However, in general, image retouching is quite average.
7. Colorexpertsbd
Quality 6/10
Speed 8/10
Price 6/10
Usability 7/10
Generally, they are engaged in product photography editing, but there are also a few portraits among them. This is one of the most uncomfortable photo retouch services. It is not easy to place an order. The page is constantly moving somewhere and you need to enter too much personal information.
I chose a glamorous photo retouching because it was not clear which one suited my requirements. I paid $6.99 for it. To be honest, their level of work does not coincide with the price. The first thing that strikes me is a too dark color of her hair. They correct the skin tone but did not make it brighter. This photo lacks some joy. You can also notice that there is a square of light on the forehead. It should not be there.
8. Retouch Up
Quality 4/10
Speed 8/10
Price 7/10
Usability 4/10
Retouch up is a fairly popular online service for image retouching. They are engaged in portrait retouching, photo restoration, clipping path and digital oil painting (turning your photos into a painted picture is a rather strange thing, to be honest).
Examples of their works seemed to be of average quality. Nevertheless, I decided to give them a chance because of their popularity.
To place an order, you need to go through such a long and complex registration, which is more like writing a detailed resume, rather than placing an order for image retouching.
After my attempts and two days waiting, I got my picture back and paid $5 for it. The skin tone caught my eye immediately. It is yellow, almost unchanged. You can also notice the hair on the right collar bone, which should be removed too. I would prefer additional shadows on the face and eyes need a little lightening.
9. Clip Cutout
Quality 3/10
Speed 6/10
Price 9/10
Usability 6/10
Such sites mainly work with the clipping path and product retouching, but for some reason, they add portrait photo retouching services online to their list. However, I am sure that they have almost no orders of such type.
Clip Cutout has several before and after samples of portrait retouching in poor quality. Prices are really low: from $1.49 per image. I paid $3.50 for my photo.
Hair and skin seemed a little over processed. The color the chose seemed a bit unnatural. The overall picture was a little dark. Nevertheless, the most noticeable drawback is the light, because the shadows were removed, especially on the forehead. The image became completely flat. In addition, the shadow on the neck was removed too. The picture is no longer voluminous. The background has become quite dark.
10. Clipping Path India
Quality 3/10
Speed 6/10
Price 10/10
Usability 5/10
This is one of the most popular cheap clipping path services in the world, and they are really good in this field, but what about other image retouching services? There are only two examples of photo retouching here. They are of very poor quality and not clickable.
You won’t find a clear list of prices but just a range of prices from $0.79 to $3.99. I could not find out my price while placing the order. It was announced before returning the order to me ($2.50).
Undoubtedly, this is the lowest price on this list, but I am not sure that this photo retouching is worth its money. Stray hairs are practically not removed, color correction is minimal, and the shadows on the body and the forehead are not flattering. I think they just smoothed the skin imperfections and tried to retouch the hair but came up a little short.
