What exactly does retouching images mean?

An image is edited so that one does not notice the changes. Objects can be removed or added in the process.

Why use image retouching?

More and more images are being created digitally. This has the advantage that you can see them immediately and much easier than with the earlier photos on paper, which first had to be developed and retouching / enhancing photos was a masterpiece, time-consuming, complicated and required skill and patience. But even if everything is easier nowadays with apps, you can have pictures retouched online with the appropriate specialist, like us.

Aren't digital images perfect?

Anyone who takes photographs knows that many pictures are not perfect. They have a high quality, but can show unwanted light reflections, there can be disturbing shadows, the exposure can be wrong, something got into the picture or something else disturbs the photo, these problems can be fixed with an image retouch.

What must be considered when retouching images?

An example would be a group photo where one person is missing for some reason. Repeating the shooting is often more difficult than inserting the missing person with the help of retouching. To make this retouching not noticeable, the person must be inserted in the right size. Just as big as the other persons, but still fitting in the size ratio, then a few little things have to be right, like the light, the shadows and the colors.

Image editing retouching is known from the celebrities.

This variant is called portrait or beauty retouching, here personalities or private people are optimized in the optics. But you can also use the technique to depict products that are still in development, to complete buildings that are still under construction, or to highlight components of machines, to name just a few examples.

Retouch / enhance photos, what is possible?

• The basic retouching: The brightness and contrast are adjusted. Colors can be corrected. Dirt, dust and impurities can be removed.
• High-end retouching: This involves elaborate retouching work. Product images are optimized, presentations are perfected, web stores, events and advertisements are improved. In the past, products had to be extensively edited to make them look the way customers would expect in photos.
• Retouching people pictures: This is where people are made to look prettier in a photo by removing cellulite, wrinkles, skin spots, blemishes, moles, scars and other distracting elements.
• Digital makeup: Skin tones, other colors, light and contrast are optimized.
• Product Image Retouching: Product images are digitally enhanced to make them good for catalogs, social media or web stores.
• Enhance analog images: Old paper images can be scanned. This way, the analog photos are digitized. Now they can be refurbished. Traces of use can be removed. Black and white photos can be colored. Old photos can be sharpened a bit. With a digitized analog photo, everything can be processed in the same way as with a purely digital photo.

Why have pictures retouched online?

With us you can upload your photos online and let us edit them. Whether retouching or creating a photo montage, everything is possible. Even though in the digital world editing photos is much easier than it used to be in the days of analog photos, it's not as easy as you think.

Of course there are apps, but you have to get used to them and many of them are still not comparable to a professional program. Then there are subtleties that you have to know, not everyone notices small errors, but they still disturb the overall impression.

We are professionals in our field. We have the experience and the appropriate equipment to realize your wishes with your photos for you. We are looking forward to your photos.

More useful links about retouching images:

• Wikipedia Bildretusche
• Adobe.com Bilder retuschieren

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