Proofs or Finals? Our 50 5x7 in prints are FINALS. A proof is the as shot image made a little smaller for you to select so that it can be processed into a FINAL print image. You can also select a custom border to be used on all of your 5x7 prints. Contact us to choose your frame type(15 to choose from). The most popular is the black border with a white key line. There is no extra charge for this service.
When you see almost any beautiful looking print, it is mandatory today that it was touched up with Photoshop or some other type of photo editing program.
One famous model was quoted saying: "I don't care who shoots my photos, I want to know who is doing the touch ups".
Professional touch ups for models and magazines is a very complex combinations of touchups. The results are amazing. We can take 20 years off how you look with our specialized processing. Wrinkes, facial lines can all be removed or minimized; that is normal for a beauty portrait session.
Yes, getting the shot right in the camera to touch up in the first place is important. That is why we plan you our shots and day as best as possible. We spend days preparing for your wedding but it is the photo editing where a great shot can be made to look fabulous. We tweak at least 20+ or more items when be touch up your phots. This ranges from white balance correction, skin softening, removal of unwanted items, etc. We even process the images using professional software to remove lens blur along with 20 or more special tweaks. To this extent, we have over $3,000 of post processing software (Photoshop CS 5 is just one of them) to help us in this area. We have even added dearly departed parents to join the wedding party.
When you purchase or get a print from us, you get real value for your money. Many times we spend over 1 hour making your prints or composite photos (more than one image on print) just so! Usually it is not the cost of the print, but today it is the time needed and the expertise to touch up your treasures. We are not on a production line. Quality is our main goal. You will cherish our photos for a lifetime so getting the best picture quality can not be understated! Specialized photo touchup can cost a bit extra, but the results last a lifetime.
We always shoot your images in what is know as Camera Raw file format. This format contains all of the original image information and is never altered during processing. That is why these files can exceed 25 MB right out of the camera. The editing process just adds more files and information to the system and never touches the original information. Your images are then stored on a computer filing system that provides 100% backup. We print most things in house on expensive Epson paper with Epson Archival quality inks that last for over 100 years.
We retain the rights to all images that we have processed and taken. This is because of the extensive amount of work that we have invested in the image. With some packages, we give you the rights to the JPEG images on a disc. These are not touched up but are processed with some of our special image processing software to sharpen and other corrections.
Here is a short list of some of the touch ups that we routinely do:
Exposure compensation, back lighting, color cast removal, shadows removed, vignetting, white balance, vibrancy, color rendering profiles, distortion, volume anamorphosis, keystoning, lens softness, noise, sharpness, chromatic aberration, levels, temperature, tint, fill light, brightness, contrast, clarity, saturation, black & white, shadows, high lights, masking, special selections, complex masks, skin touchups, cropping, special lighting effects, monitor and printer calibrations, specialized filters, target blurring, thinning of face, tummy and other body parts, covering of hair color, etc.
Look at this before and after of some basic touchups (1) ......................(2) Is a beauty Touchup Example..............(3) Lets clean up the background and get rid of parking lot
Here is another Beauty Shot with before and after touchups- which do you prefer?
