
Last month a client sent us 350 shoe photos with three different backgrounds, two lighting setups and a few shots with someone’s thumb in the corner. They needed everything on clean white by Friday. That kind of job is normal for us.
If you sell online, you probably know the feeling. Photos come back from the shoot and they’re almost right. Almost isn’t enough when a shopper decides in two seconds whether to tap or scroll. Amazon, Etsy and most big marketplaces have their own image rules, and print catalogs have another set. Someone has to clean it all up.
That’s us. We’re a team of editors working from India, and we handle everything from one photo to a few thousand. Prices start at [your starting price] per image, and most orders ship back within [your turnaround]. If something’s wrong or you just want to check on an order, our support team answers any hour of the day.
The services of photo editing needed are numerous. If we go for a total list of image manipulation that may be needed for publication, advertisement, marketing, and personal purposes, it would be never ending long list. We would like to summarize these in short.
It’s the thing we’re asked for most. An editor traces your product with the pen tool and removes the background. Easy shapes like a mug or a box take a minute. A bike chain, a mesh bag or a necklace can take much longer because every gap has to be cut out by hand.
So we sort jobs by difficulty. Simple paths are one smooth outline with no holes. Medium ones have a few openings, like a bag with straps. Complex ones go past ten paths and ten holes. Our top level is for hair, leaves and flowers, where the edge never stops being messy. Magazine and catalog work usually lands there.
We cut about 2 pixels inside the edge. That stops the faint white outline you sometimes see when a product is dropped onto a colored background.
A product on pure white can look like it’s hovering. Put a soft shadow under it and it sits on the page. We can keep the original shadow, build a drop shadow, or add a reflection for glossy things like watches and bottles. It’s a small change, and customers do notice when it’s missing.
Clipping paths work for hard edges. Soft or see through things need masking instead.
For hair and fur we use alpha channel masking, so loose strands stay natural instead of looking chopped. For glass, clear plastic and sheer fabric we keep the transparency while removing the background, so a wine glass can sit on a new scene and still look real. Collage masking is for layouts that mix several photos into one image.
Clothes photographed flat look limp. On a mannequin they look better, but the mannequin gets in the way. The ghost mannequin effect removes it and leaves the garment looking worn by no one.
We ask for two or three shots: the front on the mannequin, the inside neck area, and a back view if you have one. We join them together. One image takes around 20 minutes.
Cables, strangers in the background, a price sticker you forgot to peel off, we remove them and rebuild the background underneath. We can also add objects, matching the light and shadow so they don’t look pasted.
For model shots we smooth skin, fix blemishes and add a little glow, but we keep it believable. Nobody wants plastic skin. We can also change eye color, lengthen lashes or add jewelry.
Old photos with cracks, fading or stains can be repaired too. We fix color and exposure, remove scratches and sharpen what’s soft.
Auto trace in Illustrator gets you a rough result on anything detailed, so we redraw logos and artwork by hand. They stay sharp on a business card or a billboard. If you need a new logo, our designers start by asking about your business, then build something that works small and large.
Good photos won’t save a slow site. Our developers build and fix websites, mostly WordPress and WooCommerce. That includes PSD to HTML/CSS, responsive layouts, custom themes and plugins, full online stores, and sites for news, magazines, sports, business and portfolios. We write clean code with basic SEO in place.
Test us firstSend a few sample images and we’ll edit them for free. Look at the edges, the price and how fast we deliver. If it’s not what you wanted, you’ve lost nothing.
Replace the opening story with a real one from your work, and if you can add one customer name or order size, do it. I can also write a shorter landing page version if you want.