Outsourcing your photo editing buys back the hours you lose to culling and skin work. We checked all 22 services below against their own current pricing and service pages, so what you read here is what they sell today.
Three questions narrow the list fast.
Start with what you shoot. Wedding and portrait volume goes to WeEdit.Photos, Wedding Retouching or ShootDotEdit. E-commerce catalogues go to Path, PixelPhant or Retouching Zone. Damaged prints and family archives go to Vector People.
Then count your images. Under a few hundred a month and you want plain per-image pricing with nothing to commit to, like Ephotovn or FixiPixi. In the thousands, a credit or subscription plan works out cheaper, which is where Pixelz, Deepetch and Path sit.
Last, ask how much control you need. A clipping-path shop will hit a written spec for pennies. A studio like RetouchGem, Pixel By Hand or OMS Photo will learn a look, quote per project and cost several times more.
Almost every service here will edit a few images free, so test two or three before you send a wedding. A free trial tells you more than any price list, and it is the only way to find out whether a photo editor can match your style.
1. WeEdit.Photos
WeEdit.Photos is a team of retouchers offering online portrait and wedding photo editing. You pay per image and the rate depends on the job, so culling costs a few cents an image, color correction a little more, and beauty retouching a few dollars. There is no subscription and no minimum order.
Portrait, wedding and studio photographers are its main clients, but it covers most types of photo editing. The team promises edits back within 24 hours and staffs support around the clock. To place an order you sign in, attach the unedited files and write your instructions.
It is not the place for a single hero image that needs an art director. WeEdit is built for shoot-sized batches where consistency matters more than invention.
2. OMS Photo
OMS Photo is a commercial photo studio with an in-house retouching department, founded in 1989 and working out of Cincinnati and Denver. Its retouchers sit alongside its photographers, which is why the composites and label swaps hold up across a whole campaign rather than one frame.
The work is packaged goods, beauty, food, drink and high-volume e-commerce for brands. There is no price list and no upload form. You submit a project and get a quote, which is how commercial retouching is normally bought.
That makes it the wrong door for a photographer with 400 portraits to fix. It is the right one if you are the brand paying for the shoot and you want capture and retouching to come from the same team.
3. Image Work India
Image Work India has grown well past the portrait work it started with. Its current line-up is mostly e-commerce and apparel: ghost mannequin, clipping paths, shoe and eyeglass editing, color grading. High-end, headshot, model, jewelry and newborn retouching still sit alongside it.
Pricing is per image with a published starting rate, and it drops on bulk orders in the thousands. You get five free edits to test it. The company makes a point of keeping every file with its own in-house team of digital artists rather than farming work out to freelancers, which matters if your images are under embargo.
Fashion photographers after a signature skin look should still audition the high-end tier first. The volume pricing is aimed at catalogue work, and that is a different craft.
4. Vector People
Vector People is a restoration specialist rather than a general editor. It repairs water damage, tears, cracks, stains, fading and glass-mirror reflections, colorizes black-and-white originals, and cleans dust and scratches off scanned film.
You send one file at a time through a form, or email a batch for a bulk quote. The rate is per photo and starts in the low tens of dollars, which is normal for hand restoration and useless for a 600-image wedding.
Use it for family archives and one-off keepsakes. For anything volume, look further down this list.
5. RetouchGem
RetouchGem is a photo editing studio in Helsinki, Finland, running since 2009. Every job is done in-house by the same small team, which is why its output stays consistent from one project to the next.
It no longer publishes a flat hourly rate. Each project is quoted individually against an estimate of the time it will take, and the site gives that estimate up front by service: 10 to 20 minutes for a standard portrait, 10 to 25 for a product shot, 30 to 90 for a restoration. Three rounds of revisions are included, and extra instructions after that are billed separately. Prices are quoted in euros, or in dollars for US clients on request.
The studio says plainly that it is not cheap, and it is right. Send it portraits, bodies, products and restorations that need judgement. Send bulk catalogue work to a service with a published price list.
6. Wedding Retouching
Wedding Retouching is a wedding photo editing service that has specialised in nothing else since 2013. One wedding can hand you a few thousand frames, and this is the team that takes them off you.
It culls, color corrects and retouches at three levels of intensity, all priced per image with nothing to sign up to. Basic color work costs a fraction of a dollar; retouching runs from a couple of dollars to around ten, depending on how far you want it taken.
Worth knowing before you order: the company states on its own site that it is part of the FixThePhoto team, which is number 22 on this list. If you are shortlisting both, you are shortlisting one company twice.
The sample work is clean and restrained rather than heavily stylised. That suits a busy wedding photographer who mainly wants the images delivered, and it will frustrate anyone chasing a strong editorial grade.
7. Global Photo Edit
Global Photo Edit covers an unusually wide spread for one supplier: product, portrait, headshot, wedding, newborn, real estate, jewellery, apparel, rugs, cars, restoration and ghost mannequin.
You start with a free trial, then pay per image, and the rate is set by service rather than by one flat number. Wedding editing is its cheapest line and portrait retouching its dearest, with real estate and product in between. Edited files come back in 24 to 48 hours after a quality check, and revisions are built into the process.
The edits are detailed but stay realistic, which is what a catalogue needs. If you want one image treated as a piece of art direction, a smaller studio further up this list will give it more attention.
8. Allô Victor
Allô Victor is a French company working in both French and English, for individuals, businesses and photographers. Its services cover background swaps and object removal, photo restoration, portrait photo retouching, photo montage and basic photo adjustments. Video editing and photorealistic 3D rendering have since been added.
It also states openly that its editors work with AI tools alongside Photoshop. That is worth knowing if you are hiring on the promise of a hand-finished result, and worth asking about before a first order.
There is still no price list. You describe the project and request an estimate, which suits an unusual one-off brief and makes budgeting a regular weekly batch harder than it should be.
9. The Photo Retouching
The Photo Retouching handles automotive, product, fashion and real estate work, plus clipping paths and hollowman effects for apparel. The before and after samples in its gallery are solid, and nothing in them looks fake or over-processed.
It publishes no rates at all. The site says only that its prices are among the most competitive in the business, so you have to ask for a quote to find out what your job costs.
Judge it on the gallery and the quote, not the shop window. Several pages of the site currently print raw page-builder code instead of text, which is a maintenance problem rather than an editing one, but it makes the company hard to assess from the outside. Ask for a paid test batch before you commit a catalogue to it.
10. Deepetch
Deepetch gives you your first five images free, with no card required, which is the most generous trial on this list.
After that it runs on credits rather than a per-image price. You buy a bundle, credits are deducted according to how long a job takes, and the per-credit rate falls as the bundle gets bigger. Credits do not expire. Upload a sample and the team quotes the rating within 30 minutes, or you take a fixed-price preset. Its own worked examples run from around 20 credits for a simple edit to nearly 300 for a complex composite.
That covers most kinds of photographer, from beauty and wedding to real estate and stock. The credit model rewards you for buying ahead, so it works badly if you only ever need a handful of edits a year and well if your volume is steady.
11. Pixelz
Pixelz runs a jewellery retouching line built for e-commerce. It covers the fiddly parts of the job: clipping paths around intricate settings, background removal, dust and speck cleanup, color matching, and natural, drop or reflection shadows.
It sells subscriptions rather than one-off edits. The entry plan pairs a low monthly fee with a per-image charge on a 48-hour turnaround; the professional plan costs more a month, cuts the per-image rate and returns files the next morning with a three-hour expedite available. Re-processing is free when an image misses your spec, and you review everything inside the Pixelz platform.
Pixelz is open about combining AI automation with human editors, which is how it holds that turnaround at volume. If your images need an editor's judgement on every frame rather than a repeatable spec, this is the wrong shape of service. If you are pushing a jewellery catalogue through every month, few others will keep up.
12. PixelPhant
PixelPhant is a product photo editing partner built for e-commerce catalogues, handling anything from 20 to 2,000-plus images a day: background removal and replacement, shadows, color correction, cropping and alignment, model retouching, even file renaming and uploading to your store.
Pricing is per image on a pay-as-you-go basis with no subscription, and the rate halves on enterprise volume above 2,000 images a month. Standard turnaround is 15 hours, express is two, and revisions are unlimited. The free trial covers up to 20 images and can be extended on request.
The company describes its process as human and AI working together. That keeps the price down and the queue moving, and it is the reason to send catalogue work here rather than a hero shot that needs an editor to make a call.
13. ShootDotEdit
ShootDotEdit has edited for professional wedding photographers since 2007, and it is built around one idea the cheap shops skip: matching your style. A style consultant works with you first, then the team hand-adjusts white balance, temperature, tint, exposure, highlights, shadows, contrast, vibrance and per-color hue and luminance on every frame in Adobe Lightroom.
Turnaround runs as fast as 48 hours through its own upload tool and Lightroom smart-preview workflow. Pricing is arranged after a consultation rather than published, and its credit plans roll unused credits over so you can bank them ahead of wedding season.
ShootDotEdit now works alongside Imagen, its AI technology partner, on high-volume studio workflows. This is color and style work rather than retouching, so blemish and skin work is a separate job and belongs with one of the portrait specialists above. If you shoot weddings and your bottleneck is turning 3,000 raw files into a consistent gallery, nothing else here is aimed as squarely at you.
14. Retouching Zone
Retouching Zone is an e-commerce specialist covering clipping paths, ghost mannequin, retouching, background removal, color correction and shadows, with dedicated workflows for Amazon, eBay, Etsy and Shopify sellers.
There is no price list and no subscription. You send a sample, get a quote and a test edit back within an hour, and pay at the end of the month once you are satisfied. The quote moves with service type, complexity and how fast you need it, and batch orders are discounted.
It is a volume operation for product and apparel work, so people photography is not its strength. Send it a 500-SKU catalogue rather than a portrait session.
15. Pixel By Hand
Pixel By Hand now edits fashion images and nothing else. The Cardiff studio has been running since 2006, works with brands in 15 countries, and turns work around overnight on a 24-hour standard.
Its speciality is the ghost mannequin effect built from a single photograph, with the garment interior reconstructed digitally. Everyone else needs a second inside shot, so old shoots can still be made catalogue-ready without a reshoot. It also covers background removal to Amazon, Zalando and ASOS specs, wrinkle and lint cleanup, skin retouching, color consistency across colorways, shadows and marketplace crops.
Pricing is quoted per project rather than published, and it starts with a free sample: send three to five images and you get them edited plus a custom quote inside 24 hours, no card required.
That narrowing cuts both ways. If you shoot apparel, this is the sharpest tool on the list. If you shoot anything else, Pixel By Hand is no longer for you.
16. Color Experts International
Color Experts International promises to fix bad lighting, composition and more. It works for product and portrait photographers, and it will manipulate images into something surreal or conceptual. The catalogue has since widened well beyond stills into video editing, rotoscoping, subtitling and audio work.
Pricing is per image with published starting rates that vary by service, and bulk orders attract a discount of up to half. Your first order is free, so you can judge the quality before any money changes hands.
The before and after samples are strong across the board. The breadth is the thing to watch: a supplier that also sells podcast audio editing is not going to be the deepest specialist in high-end beauty retouching, so test the exact service you need rather than the company as a whole.
17. FixiPixi
FixiPixi does not have the most polished website design on this list, but the editing behind it is competent and cheap. The company registered in Canada in 2015 and runs its production office in Khulna, Bangladesh, with more than 20 Photoshop operators.
It quotes per image from under 30 cents, sends the quote back within an hour, and turns edited files around in about 12 hours. You get two free trials to check the quality first, plus a free 30-minute edit with every order.
Its strongest work is clipping paths, shoes, cars, furniture, jewellery and Amazon listing images. Portrait photo editing is offered but is not where the studio's strength lies, so send it product work and keep faces elsewhere.
18. Photo Retouching Up
Photo Retouching Up covers most of the editing map: manipulation, color correction, restoration, clipping paths, ghost mannequin, jewellery, body, headshot, portrait, product, wedding, real estate and newborn photography retouching.
It publishes a per-service price list that starts under 40 cents for a clipping path and rises through background removal, multi-clipping and shadow work, with catalogue building priced as a flat job. Bulk orders are discounted, there is a free trial, and the company states that every edit is made by hand in Photoshop and normally delivered within 24 hours.
Two things temper that. The workflow is quote-then-approve-then-pay rather than self-serve, and parts of the pricing page still carry placeholder Lorem Ipsum text where the plan descriptions should be. Get the scope confirmed in writing before you send a batch.
19. Perfect Retouching
Perfect Retouching runs four retouching lines and four editing lines. The retouching side covers jewellery, product, model and headshot work; the editing side adds ghost mannequin, real estate with sky swaps and virtual staging, creative graphics and video. The studio is in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a North American contact number.
There is no public price list. You start with a free trial or book a call, then work through an order portal with a dedicated manager assigned to your account. Revisions are free and the site lists a dozen and a half interface languages.
It is set up for e-commerce brands with a steady flow of SKUs rather than a photographer with a one-off image. If you want a very specific and repeatable house look applied at scale, that account-manager structure is exactly what you are paying for. If you want beauty photography treated as art direction, look at RetouchGem or OMS Photo instead, and see our guide to editing product photos if you would rather do it yourself.
20. Path (formerly Clipping Path India)
Clipping Path India rebranded as Path and now runs at pathedits.com. Same discipline, bigger platform. As the old name suggests, the core skill is cut-outs, the transparent PNG files online shops run on, plus image masking for hair and fur, multi-clipping, shadows, ghost mannequin, symmetry corrections and color variants.
Pricing runs on credits, starts at a quarter a dollar an image and is quoted instantly rather than after an email exchange. Turnaround starts at six hours, support runs around the clock, and prices are shown in more than 20 currencies. There is now a Shopify app that scans your catalogue for image problems and sends the fixes straight back.
It also does portrait retouching, but that is a sideline here and the results do not match the specialists further up. Use Path to get a large product photo catalogue clean and consistent for very little money.
21. Ephotovn
Ephotovn has strong before and after examples and covers high-end retouching plus background removal. Rates are per image and rise by difficulty: portrait, headshot, newborn, maternity, family and children work sits at one price, model retouching above it, high-end retouching above that, and e-commerce editing including a pure white background is the cheapest line of all.
There is no subscription. You pay per image, only once you are happy, and revisions are unlimited. You can also work one-to-one with a single editor, which is the practical way to keep a look consistent across shoots. The company is quick, promising edits inside 24 hours and claiming it can strip backgrounds from 1,000 images in a day, and it does not claim copyright over your files.
Its old limits have gone. Alongside portrait retouching and product photography it now sells real estate photo editing, jewellery and wedding editing as their own lines. That makes it one of the easier services on this list to standardise on.
22. Photo Editing Services: FixThePhoto
FixThePhoto Photo Editing Service has been running since 2003 and is the best-known name on this list. Real retouchers do the work by hand, and the company publishes profiles of the editors who do it. It covers portrait, body, wedding, newborn, product, jewellery, real estate, restoration and manipulation, and it packages the work into five retouching bundles as well as pricing single images.
You pay per image and the rate follows the job: color correction is the cheapest line at a fraction of a dollar, basic retouching starts a couple of dollars higher, and portrait work costs more again. Turnaround is 24 hours. Clients consistently call the pricing reasonable for the standard of work.
It has also opened an AI arm, selling generated clothing models and training data to machine-learning teams. That does not touch the retouching queue, but it tells you where the company is heading.
The way to approach it is to look through the before and after examples, then send one image for a free quote. The team follows your photography style and asks for detailed instructions with examples, so the more specific you are, the closer the first pass lands.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Retouching in Photography?
Photo retouching is removing flaws from an image. In portrait photography, this means removing blemishes and pimples from the skin. In product photography, this means getting rid of textures, dust, or unwanted wrinkles.
What Is Editing in Photography?
Photo editing means enhancing a picture in some way. This could mean removing a background, getting rid of flaws, color correction, or manipulating. If you change something in an image, it means you’re editing it.
What Do Professionals Use to Edit Photos?
Professional photo retouchers use programs like Photoshop and Lightroom to enhance their pictures.
Is Photoshop the Best Photo Editor?
Yes. Photoshop is considered one of the best photo editors in the world. A few other good options are GIMP, Lightroom, Skylum Luminar, and ON1 Photo RAW.
Conclusion
Editing is where a shoot turns into a delivery, and it is the part of the job that quietly eats your evenings. Handing it over is the cheapest hour you will ever buy back.
Start narrow. Pick two services from the section of this list that matches what you shoot, send each the same five images through their free trial, and compare what comes back against what you would have done yourself. That comparison settles it faster than any price list, because per-image rates on this page differ by a factor of thirty and the cheapest edit is only cheap if you do not have to fix it.
Once one of them matches your style, give it a whole shoot. Consistency across a gallery is worth more than saving a few cents an image.
