What is skin retouching?

Dodging and burning is a process of enhancing highlights and shadow areas to add definition and, in the case of skin retouching, even out skin tones. This can all be done using Curves Adjustment Layers and Layer Masks.

How do I change my perfect skin in Photoshop?

Perfectly smooth skin is achieved by applying manual retouching techniques in a very careful manner.

How much does high end retouching cost?

The term high-end retouching does, unfortunately, not specify a certain skill level. However, in general, you can expect to pay a premium for high-end retouching services. It depends very much on the country you are hiring a person from. For most 1st world countries a per image rate of $30-300 is to be expected whereas in developing countries a per image rate of $3-15 is more common for high-end retouching services.

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The High End Retouching Studio

Next Level High-End Retouching Services
Advcanced Retouching & Colorgrading

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Our expertise in retouching will help translate your vision into reality

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BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING is a global team of retouching professionals and trained experts

Industy Pros

Only highly trained retouching experts will work on your projects

What We Offer

OUR High-End Retouching Services

With years of experience, our professional retouching studio provides high-end results combined with a structured way of working. We adapt to your preferred way of working, always making sure we can deliver the right retouching results to fair prices. Our retouching services cover a range of fields, covering beauty retouching, makeup and hair retouching, but also look creation, color grading and full on post-production on advertising campaigns.

Here is a list of fields our retouching studio are actively working in. We offer advanced skin retouching, make-up and hair retouching, or professional color grading services. BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING is well versed in both fields, editorial or advertising campaigns. Our Retouching Portfolio demonstrates for us to work very high-end and with boutique clients.

Skin Retouching

Skin Retouching is a constantly growing field. The growth in demand and quality has become significant over the past few years and with today’s ultra-high resolving cameras, handling skin with the utmost care to detail has become more important than ever.

Hair Retouching

Hair Retouching is is one of the most tricky subjects in retouching which separates the wheat from the chaff. Our agency provides the skill power to retouch hair commercials or editorials that hold up in high resolving prints and billboards.

Editorial Retouching

Working on sets of images to be published by big named magazines? We happily help you deliver results matching your vision and of cause suite your high quality needs. No set is the same and all images are adjusted and carefully retouched to make them go together seamlessly as a series to be published.

Makeup Retouching

Makeup and Skincare is aside from fashion one of the larges industries sold in woman’s advertising. We guarantee specialized treatment to all images that meet the industry standard and current trends in makeup. Our staff is constantly trained to improve skills and upgrade their education standards so we can offer the highest quality results.

Advertising Retouching

We work on corporate direct and in cooperation with advertising agencies. To us quality and customer satisfaction has the highest priority. Our knowledgeable staff provides highest quality output no matter the publication medium: whether your images go online or into print production, we can make changes according to your needs and help to determine file delivery standards for the best possible outcome.

Look Creation&
Color Grading

There are projects when classical retouching has taken a back seat and budget is better spent on creating a mood and guiding the viewear by clever choice and usage of color and contrast. We offer look development by project or targeted to a photographer’s needs to stand out from the mass and to give a unique polish to the commissioned images.

state-of-the-art Retouching

we help to redefine your creative work

Photoshop
Experts

Everyone working at BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING is a highly trained and certified Adobe Photoshop Expert.

Understanding
Partner

With our experience we help you producing great images while keeping deadlines and understanding professional workflows and needs.

Color
Professionals

We are specialized in commercial color grading and professional color grading workflows.

Our expertise will help to create
magical images with impact to
drive awareness and sales for your brand

"We focus on beauty"

Our Clients Believe in Us

Here Is What They Are Saying

“I was very happy with the approach and results I have gotten using Boutique's high end retouching services. They deliver great results and besides, are very professional."

“I lkoved working with BOUTiQUE!
Since I have never used a retouching studio before to finish my images, I was rather sceptical or unsure about the outcome. I must say, however, their approach makes it easy to outsource retouching work and not have a feeling that something might go wrong."

Our Approach to High-End Retouching

Retouching in action

If you wonder what level of detail goes into our professional retouching work and the dedication we have towards working on beautiful, high-end images, here is a time-lapse video of a high-end beauty retouch from start to finish.

This video features all steps and techniques involved in retouching natural-looking beauty portraits to the highest standard.

High-end retouching does involve a lot of manual work. More than most people expect. A high-end beauty retouch can take up to several ours to complete for the amount of dedication and care going into every single image. Beauty retouching and fashion retouching requires additional skills and know-how, covering the application of makeup and what clothing designers want to see in images. This knowledge allows our retouching studio to ensure high-quality technical standards but also less revisions than common with lesser trained retouching agencies.

Get A Project Proposal First

Retouching Proposal For Transparency and Trust

Have A Passion For Retouching

Is high end retouching different? Any magical Photoshop tricks involved? This video shows step by step how beauty portraits are polished in high end retouching. There are no magic tricks, nor are people’s faces altered to make them look “beautiful”. High End Retouching is about cleaning up the face and flaws that could not have been taken care of during a shoot. The goal always should be to deliver realistic results that do not need to look retouched. High end retouching does not require airbrushing or painting over the skin. Professionals also do not use blur filter or filtering techniques in order to blend tones into each other. This image successfully shows what can be expected from a high end retoucher when dealing with images. It illustrates the enormous time investment and hard work put into one single image as well as the importance of quality source images in order to deliver stunning results.

About The Retouching Workflow

When dealing with client images a good retoucher always needs to work efficient and also non-destructive in order to make changes on the fly when details were overseen or when clients demand changes. Therefore: Always keep your workflow simple! What is High End Retouching High end retouching describes an artful and very skilled approach on retouching images, with the utmost care to deliver the highest quality output files possible while not leaving any direct signs of manual change to the images.

Retouching Techniques - Overview

– RAW processing (in this case CaptureOne)
– pixel retouching (cloning, healing, painting ,..)
– dodge and burn
– local color corrections (saturation and hue)
– working on a global color and contrast theme (color palette, color grading)

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Digital Photoshop Retouching

Digital retouching is usually done with the application Photoshop by Adobe. Photoshop offers every tool possible to either digitally enhance or restore images.

High End Retouching Actions

Every retoucher needs a set of tools. Like a painter needs not just a canvas and a brush. Retouchers use the tools coming with Photoshop but within that there are plenty of other tools, like scrips or retouching actions to help a retoucher accomplish the goals in an efficient and precise way.

High End Retouching Techniques

Mastering retouching techniques are the foundation of beautiful images. Over the past decade, natural-looking images have become the standard in the beauty and fashion industries. These results are only made possible by choosing the right retouching techniques.

Premium Retouching

As a premium retouching provider our services do not only include retouching to the highest standard but only premium retouching services like color matching, consistency, backup services and more.

Retouching Course / Retouching Education

Our goal is to create on full-featured retouching course to cater to advanced retouchers and to help them elevate their craft!

Fashion Retouching / Macro Beauty

The fashion industry has its own rules. High Fashion Retouching is no different. For it to cross many fields like skin, product, clothing, compositing techniques it is considered one of the most advanced fields to work in.

What is High End Retouching?

We believe in you, your Quality of work and your high standards. BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING therefore provides high-end retouching services up to the highest level to meet your standards.

High End Retouching Services

BOUTiQUE RETOUCHING provides custom retouching services. Each project and set of images is unique and is treated as such by us. Whether you commission beauty, skin, hair or fashion images, we provide you with the best rates according to your specific project that enables us to deliver the highest quality of work.

Award-Winning Beauty Retoucher

In late 2015 Daniel Hager was awarded as best Beauty and Fashion retoucher by the internationally recognized Master Photographer Association in the UK. Being second place the year before states the continuous high quality output and ambitions that Edgeworld Retouch stands for: Being one of the best Beauty Retouching agencies world wide.
Find more on the MPA Awards at their Website:
MPA Award Winners 2015