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Poshmark Resellers Depop Sellers Vintage Resellers Agencies & Studios View all industriesPixel Retouching offers professional photo retouching services at an affordable photo retouching price, charged per image rather than per hour — so the cost of a 500-image catalogue is knowable before you commit to it instead of after. Photo retouching rates begin at $0.30 an image, there is no minimum order and no contract, and the exact photo retouching price per image is confirmed against your own files before anything is edited.
No credit card, no sign-up, no minimum order.
Each rate below is the starting photo retouching price for a standard-complexity image, and each card says exactly what that cost per image covers. Drag any slider to see the work the rate buys.
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See the serviceEvery rate in this photo editing price list is per image in USD. Orders of 10+ images qualify for discounted pricing and 100+ for up to 50% off. Taxes are added at invoicing where your location requires them.
Almost every studio prices retouching by complexity, but few say what the tiers actually mean, which is the single biggest reason the same product comes back with three different quotes. These are ours, using clipping path as the example because it is the clearest case.
A single closed outline with no holes in it. Books, boxes, phones, plain mugs, folded textiles. This is the starting rate on the list above.
One or two interior holes, or a curved outline needing many anchor points. Mugs with handles, shoes, rings, watches with a solid strap, bottles with a label.
Many interior gaps, or a subject where paths and masking are both needed. Sandals, chairs with open frames, watches with a mesh strap, jewellery with a chain.
Dozens of separate gaps, fine transparency, or both at once. Bicycles, wire racks, lace and netting, furniture with spindles, hair on a model.
Unsure which tier your product falls into? Send one image. We will tell you the tier and the exact rate before you place an order.
Retouching gets cheaper per image at volume because the setup work — agreeing the style, writing the spec, configuring delivery — is done once and then reused across the batch. It is what turns an already affordable photo retouching service into a rate an in-house team cannot match.
List price. No minimum order, so a single image is a perfectly normal order and the free trial covers your first three.
Discounted pricing. Most repeat Amazon, Shopify and Etsy sellers sit in this band and are quoted per batch rather than per image.
Up to 50% off list. Bulk photo retouching pricing is quoted against a sample from your actual set, with the rate fixed for the whole order.
Ongoing weekly or monthly volume is priced as a retained rate, with your style guide and turnaround written into the agreement.
The listed photo retouching price is the delivered price. These six things are included on every order regardless of size, which is most of why the rate holds up against studios quoting a lower headline figure.
However many rounds it takes, at no extra charge. Revisions are part of the price rather than an upsell, because a file you cannot use is not a delivery.
A second editor checks every file against your brief and against the rest of the batch before it is released. That check is not billed separately.
Writing up your standard the first time, and holding it across every later batch, costs nothing. It is what makes a repeat order match the first one.
JPEG, PNG with transparency, TIFF or layered PSD, at whatever dimensions you need, in as many output sizes as your channels require.
For recurring volume we connect straight to your server so hand-off and delivery happen without anyone doing it manually. No setup fee.
If revisions do not resolve the issue, you get your money back. We would rather refund an order than argue about one.
A quote from a description is a guess. A quote from your actual files is a number you can budget against, which is why we always ask for the images first.
Three to five images that reflect the hardest part of your set, not the easiest. A quote built on your simplest product will not survive contact with the rest of the catalogue.
Which platforms, which sizes, what background, whether shadows are needed and what file format. The more specific this is, the tighter the price.
Usually within a few hours. It states the per-image rate, the complexity tier we have assessed, the turnaround and the total. That number is what you are invoiced.
Work begins once you approve. The rate holds for the whole batch, and for repeat orders on the same product type unless the brief itself changes.
The per-image rate is only half the comparison. What matters is the cost of getting a finished, consistent catalogue out of the door — including the months when volume is low. Set against a salaried retoucher or a marketplace freelancer, outsourcing to Pixel Retouching is what makes it the best photo retouching company to work with on price per image as well as on output.
Fixed monthly cost
Low headline rate
Best price per image, from $0.30
Set out here in full, because pricing pages that leave this to the invoice are the reason people distrust quoted photo retouching rates.
PayPal, credit and debit card, and bank transfer. An invoice is issued for every order so the cost is documented rather than agreed informally over email.
On the next working day after the invoice is issued. New clients can settle per order; standing accounts are usually invoiced weekly or monthly.
There are no hidden fees. Tax is added at invoicing only where your location requires it, shown as a separate line rather than folded into the rate. Coupons and volume bands are applied at the time of ordering, not retroactively.
Pricing disclaimer: every rate on this page is a starting price for standard complexity and is confirmed against your files before work begins. Rates are quoted in USD and may be revised over time; a quote you have already approved is honoured at the approved price.
Quoted rates for outsourced photo retouching generally run from around $0.25 to $10 an image. That range is so wide because “retouching” covers everything from a thirty-second background swap to an hour of jewellery work, and because studios price on completely different bases. Here is what actually sits behind the photo retouching price you are quoted.
Anything quoted far below these bands is usually an automated tool with a person glancing at the output, which shows up as halos on hair, hard edges on soft materials and shadows that do not match the light in the scene. An affordable photo retouching service and a cheap one are not the same thing: the first is hand work priced sensibly at volume, the second is a filter with an invoice attached.
eCommerce and marketplace sellers usually land on the eCommerce Ready package, or a clipping path where only a cut-out is needed, with volume putting most of them in the discounted band. Fashion and apparel brands pair ghost mannequin with colour change, so one shoot produces every colourway on the listing page.
Jewellery brands sit at the top of product photography at $2.00, the category where cheap editing is most obvious at zoom. Real estate agencies are higher again because each delivered frame is merged from three to nine brackets. Photographers and studios order across the range and take it white label, so it reaches their own client as their own work.
Corporate and HR teams price headshots per roster, so a team photographed over several days still matches. Families and private clients are usually quoted individually for restoration, where damage varies too much for a list rate to mean anything.
Most of what pushes a photo retouching price up is decided before the images are ever sent. None of these cost anything to do.
A plain, evenly lit backdrop can move a product down a whole complexity tier. Patterned surfaces and cluttered sets are the most common reason a quote comes back higher than expected.
One 200-image order is cheaper than four 50-image orders, because the setup and style agreement is done once instead of four times.
A specific brief — sizes, background, shadow, format, naming — avoids revision rounds. Revisions are free here, but they still cost you days.
Ordering cut-out, shadow, colour and resizing as one package costs less than buying the same four steps separately, and the result is more consistent.
A colourway at $0.99 replaces sampling, shipping and photographing a second physical product. For a range in eight colours this is the single largest saving available.
RAW files hold far more recoverable highlight and shadow detail than exported JPEGs, so fewer images need corrective work billed on top of the base edit.
Photo retouching prices start at $0.30 an image for a clipping path and run to $3.00 for real estate work, with most eCommerce and product retouching sitting between $0.39 and $1.50. High-end retouching — jewellery, headshots, newborn, restoration — is $2.00 upward because it is hand-detailed rather than procedural. The list above gives the starting rate for every service.
It is the base rate for an image of standard complexity. More intricate work — more paths, finer edges, heavier retouching — costs more, and we tell you the exact figure in a written quote before any work begins. You are never billed a higher rate than the one you approved.
Standard turnaround is 24 hours for most services, and 24 to 48 hours for high-end retouching, restoration and large-volume batches. Rush and same-day editing is available for an additional fee when a deadline cannot move.
There are no hidden fees. Revisions, quality control, file conversion and FTP delivery are all included in the listed rate. Tax is added at invoicing only where your location requires it, and it appears as a separate line rather than folded into the rate.
Yes, and most clients do — a clipping path with colour correction and a shadow, for example. Combined work is quoted as a bundle, which costs less than ordering the same steps separately.
Send the images and describe what you need. Custom editing is a normal part of the work, and we will confirm feasibility and price before starting rather than turning it away because it has no line on the list.
No, provided the work is the same. Once a rate is agreed for a product type it holds for later batches of that type. If the brief itself changes — a new background, extra output sizes, a harder product — we requote before starting.
Yes. Three images edited to your brief, with no credit card, no sign-up and no obligation to continue. It exists so you can judge the output rather than the price list.
Send three files and we will retouch them free and quote the rest of the set against them. No credit card, no sign-up, and no obligation to continue.
Written quote back within a few hours.
