Stock Photography Editing
Stock photography editing is a specialized task, typically performed using software like Photoshop. It involves preparing images for commercial use across various platforms, such as websites, advertisements, and publications. Unlike editing personal photos, stock photo editing aims to enhance images to appeal to a broad audience while maintaining versatility for different applications. This includes adjusting lighting, color balance, composition, and clarity to ensure visually appealing images suitable for diverse purposes. Additionally, editors may remove imperfections, add visual effects, or manipulate elements to meet specific client or project requirements. Ultimately, the goal of stock photography editing is to create highly marketable images adaptable for commercial use.
The process of editing stock photography begins with selecting high-quality images that meet the standards of the stock photography agency or platform. These images should be well-composed, properly exposed, and free of distracting elements. Once selected, the editing process focuses on enhancing the visual appeal and usability of the images.
Key aspects of stock photography editing include:
- Color Correction: Adjusting color balance, saturation, and contrast to ensure that the image looks vibrant and appealing without appearing overly manipulated. Consistency in color across a series of images is also important for cohesive branding and design.
- Noise Reduction: Removing digital noise or graininess from images, especially those taken in low-light conditions or with high ISO settings, to ensure a clean and professional appearance.
- Crop and Composition: Cropping or resizing images to adhere to standard aspect ratios and composition guidelines. This may involve removing distractions, adjusting framing, or focusing on the main subject to create visually compelling images.
- Object Removal and Retouching: Eliminating unwanted elements or distractions from the image, such as logos, trademarks, or identifiable individuals, to ensure compliance with licensing agreements and copyright laws. Additionally, retouching may be applied to enhance the appearance of the subject or scene while maintaining a natural and realistic look.
- Keywording and Metadata: Adding relevant keywords, descriptions, and metadata to images to improve their discoverability and searchability on stock photography platforms. This metadata helps potential buyers find images that meet their specific needs and criteria.
- File Formatting: Optimizing images for web or print use by selecting appropriate file formats (e.g., JPEG, TIFF) and resolution settings. This ensures that the images maintain high quality and are compatible with different viewing devices and platforms.
Overall, stock photography editing requires a balance between enhancing the visual appeal of images and preserving their authenticity and usability for a wide range of commercial applications. By applying careful editing techniques and adhering to industry standards, photographers and editors can create compelling stock images that meet the diverse needs of clients and customers across various industries and sectors.
Our Stock Photography Editing Services
Lightroom Post Production
Lightroom editing is the process of slimming down a bride’s photos to create a look that is perfect for her wedding. It comes with adjustments and enhancements that are meant to enhance the colors and lighting of the photos in an album
Wedding Exposure Adjustment
Wedding Portrait Enhancement is the process of enhancing the wedding images by editing, adjusting colors, brightness and contrast.
Torn Wedding Photos
We can restore old photographs of your wedding pictures. This will bring back those old memories by retouching those parts that are damaged.
Weddings are important event in our lives that need long lasting images. Images are memories that we look back on our wedding day. This image undergoes post production by adjusting exposure and colors.
- Exposure Adjustment
- Increase Vibrance
- Wedding Color Enhancement
- Sharpen Wedding Photograph
Images on our wedding day needs to be perfect, flaws and blemishes needs to be removed in order to achieve the best output.
- Retouching of Wedding Background
- Color Correct Wedding Images
- Adjusting Exposure
- Sharpening Wedding Photographs
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I Get Started?
Simply click on this link Trial Photo Editing and upload your raw images. For example, once we receive your images we will send a confirmation email. After that we can then provide you a quotation and ask for approval.
What is your turn around time in photo editing?
The turn around of our photo editing is 4 – 24 hours depending on the volume and difficulty of your images. You can also setup your own turn around time by applying in our partnership program. Becoming our partner gives you a fix delivery time on your images and you can also request for rush editing.
How much does Photo Editing Cost?
The cost of editing an image is $ .50 cents to $ 5 base of the time spent or difficulty of a picture. Clients who have daily or weekly images may avail special rate discounts. All customers however will have to send a raw image to get a quotation.
I Have Questions
Simply fill out the form in the Contact Us and we will answer all your questions.
Stock Photography Retouching
Wedding photo retouching is a process of cleaning of wedding photos using a photo editing software. Our company can remove and restore old photos or damaged wedding images. Using our human powered staff we can provide the highest quality output of your pictures.