Check the review of efficient wedding photography editing services for busy and amateur photographers.
Wedding photo editing services are usually a team of professional retouchers who know how to make wedding images look interesting and beautiful. Among the services offered, you can order culling, color correction, and portrait photo retouching.
Typically, such services are popular among photographers who have a busy schedule and can’t improve hundreds of images on their own, and average clients who lack knowledge and skills of how to improve their shots and are looking for professional help.
We have addressed numerous companies engaged in this activity and narrowed down the choice to top three platforms that satisfy our demands in terms of quality, pricing plans, special offers and discounts, turnaround time, and customer support.
1. FixThePhoto
Services Provided: Culling and wedding photo editing
Portfolio: The first thing to pay attention to while selecting a trustworthy wedding editing service is the samples of their previous work. Here you can find many beautiful images in the “Example” tab, all arranged in a logical manner and available for zooming in.
Turnaround: We were absolutely amazed at how fast these guys coped with our task, considering that it wasn’t a simple one. We received our photo in 24 hours.
Pricing Policy: The cost of culling starts at $0.05 while for the color correction you need to pay $0.20 per photo. They also accept batch orders.
Packages: Trying to cater to the needs of both rookie and experienced wedding photographers, FixThePhoto company offers 2 kinds of wedding editing packages – Light for $99 and Pro for $159. Choosing the first option, you get professional culling and color correction of up to 700 shots. The second package is more profound including image culling, color correction (700 images), basic photo retouching (20 shots), and high-end retouching (5 photos).
Discounts: FixThePhoto treats their regular clients with generous bonuses from time to time. You can get up to 50% off the price for FixThePhoto Wedding Editing Pack Light and FixThePhoto Wedding Editing Pack Premium.
Placing an Order: The mechanism is very straightforward. Just send your files via Dropbox, Email or WeTransfer 24/7.
Customer Support: The managers of this wedding photo editing service are very friendly and glad to answer any questions you may have. They work around the clock to provide timely help to clients from different parts of the globe.
Overall Impression: FixThePhoto is definitely a good choice for those who need to get wedding photos edited quickly and efficiently. Among the main advantages of this service are responsive managers who work 24/7, excellent pricing, impressive discounts, and an amazing team of professionals. They have many photo editing freebies for beginning retouchers and filmmakers as bokeh overlays, Lightroom HDR presets, Photoshop water textures, cinematic LUTs, or video overlays.
When we first saw our improved photo, we were really impressed because everything looked very beautiful yet realistic. They enhanced the skin tone and took care of the flyaway hairs, so a model looks amazing. The general color correction they made proves that these guys are good at what they are offering. We can’t but mention the turnaround time which is a big advantage for photographers having tight deadlines. Besides, the company not only edits photos but also shares useful tools, so that aspiring shooters can hone their image editing skills without spending a penny.
2. WeEdit.Photos
Services Provided: Wedding photo editing and culling
Portfolio: This wedding photography editing service can be proud of its works and it actually is demonstrating before&after images in the “Portfolio” tab. You can easily find a particular genre, since pictures here are divided into categories.
Turnaround: Being a bit slower than FixThePhoto, retouchers from this company still demonstrated great speed delivering our order in a day and a half.
Pricing Policy: Prices start from $0.20 to $10 per image.
Packages: Wedding shooters can choose between 2 offers – Wedding Light for $99 (includes culling and color correction of max 700 shots) and Wedding Pro for $159 (identical to the cheaper option + basic editing of 20 pictures and advanced editing of 5 photos).
Discounts: Clients can get seasonal discounts (make sure to visit the site occasionally) and reduced prices for bulk orders.
Placing an Order: Very intuitive – registration via email and payment via PayPal.
Customer Support: You can get in touch with this wedding editing service via the chat window at the website or email. They respond very promptly.
Overall Impression: WeEdit.Photos team knows how a qualitative wedding photo should look and they work in accordance with well-established image editing standards. If you are a first-time client of this company, you can ensure they offer top-notch services by examining the photo samples in the “Portfolio” section. There are lots of studio and outdoor photos, wedding, portrait, group, couple, and other shots.
We are absolutely satisfied with color grading and photo retouching they performed. Skin looks healthy and beautiful and the texture hasn’t lost details. They also enhanced hairdo and makeup, without crossing the “naturalness” line. Though these edits require lots of time and patience, they perfectly coped with the task. They sent us back the result rather quickly.
3. Wedding-Retouching
Services Provided: From culling to wedding portrait photo retouching
Portfolio: This wedding photo editing service has been on the market for many years and has collected many successfully edited pictures in the “Gallery” tab and positive reviews from customers. The images look absolutely gorgeous and allow you to understand that these retouchers are absolutely fond of what they are doing. They willingly share their professional secrets and even attach different free tools that you can download and use to learn how to improve your photos.
Turnaround: The declared period is 48 hours but they cope with the task faster.
Pricing Policy: They offer 5 types of image editing to choose from – Culling, Color Correction, Simple, Pro, or Advanced Edit. The prices vary from $0.50 to $10 in accordance with the service you select.
Packages: Similar to the abovementioned wedding photo editing services, this company offers 2 packages – Light and Pro priced $99 and $159 accordingly. The edits included in each package are identical to what FixThePhoto and WeEdit.Photos offer.
Discounts: Returning clients can feel the special care of this service since there often appear seasonal discounts. Just visit the site on a regular basis and you are sure to enjoy some.
Placing an Order: To submit your files, you need to register – via Email, Facebook, or Google account. You can send up to 50MB of photos.
Customer Support: You can easily get in touch with these guys using FB, your email, or just drop a message in the chatbox on the website.
Overall Impression: Wedding-Retouching is popular among seasoned and newbie photographers because of the high level of services offered. The website is nicely designed and easy to navigate allowing you to find the necessary section in a quick way. The bridal portrait we sent to them looks absolutely mesmerizing. They fixed WB, improved colors and saturation, removed harsh shadows, and did their best to turn this shot into an awe-aspiring art piece.
They also worked on facial features without going overboard. All in all, this wedding photography editing service can be trusted if you don’t mind waiting a bit longer than in the case with the first companies.
About the author: Eva Williams is a New York photographer and software journalist for FixThePhoto.com