Photo Editing & Retouching for Streetwear Brands
Professional photo editing for streetwear brands, delivered against your drop date, from $0.50 an image. Lookbook, cut-outs and social crops finish together in one grade — screen prints stay crisp and a black hoodie stays a hoodie, not a silhouette. Pixel Retouching has run streetwear campaign editing since 2014, from ISO-certified studios in Singapore and Dhaka.
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Send three pieces from the next drop. Back in 24 hours, graded as a set.
Capacity that matches a launch date
Eighty in-house retouchers and 8,000 images a day, so an entire shoot landing on one date is routine rather than a favour.
What a Drop Does to an Editing Schedule
The technical work is ordinary apparel retouching. The scheduling and the tonal control are not.
Everything lands on one date
There is no rolling catalogue to spread the work across. The lookbook, the product shots and the social crops all become due together, and a freelancer with a queue is a genuine business risk.
Black on black on black
Half the range is black, and a badly handled black crushes the hood, the seam and the print into one flat shape. Holding separation in the shadows without lifting the whole garment to grey is the difference between a product shot and a silhouette.
The graphic is the product
A screen print, an embroidery or a puff logo is the reason someone is buying. Softened by a careless sharpening pass or shifted in colour, the thing you actually sell has been damaged.
Three outputs, one look
Lookbook, e-commerce cut-out and social crop are three different jobs from the same shoot. If they are not graded together they arrive looking like three different brands on launch day.
What We Deliver for a Drop
Everything from one shoot, graded together and delivered against your launch date.
- Delivery
- Batched against your drop date, not trickled per file
- Grade
- One treatment across lookbook, product and social
- Blacks
- Separation held in shadow without lifting the garment
- Print and graphics
- Sharpness and colour protected through the whole edit
- Outputs
- Product cut-outs, lookbook files and social crops from one master
- Turnaround
- 24 hours standard, rush available for a fixed launch
Send the shoot as one batch with the launch date attached. We confirm the delivery time against the real file count before anything starts.
What We Edit for a Streetwear Brand
Five jobs across a typical drop. Each links to the service page that explains the technique itself.
Ghost Mannequin for the Product Grid
The mannequin is removed and the garment’s interior composited back in, so a hoodie holds its own three-dimensional shape on white with nothing visibly propping it up. Heavyweight fabric is the tricky part, and the shape has to stay believable rather than shrink-wrapped.
- Mannequin removed, interior rebuilt
- Neck, sleeve and hem joints constructed
- Heavyweight drape kept, not flattened
- Shoulders squared and shape symmetrical
How this is done: Ghost Mannequin
Try it on 3 imagesPrints and All-Over Patterns
An all-over print is the one thing you cannot clean up carelessly. Push the contrast and the pattern goes muddy; lift the shadows and the repeat flattens into wallpaper. The garment is separated from the background without the print bleeding into the edge, and the pattern keeps the depth that tells a buyer it is printed on cloth rather than laid over it.
- Print kept sharp through the cut-out
- No bleed where pattern meets the edge
- Repeat kept legible at grid size
- Depth held in the weave, not flattened
How this is done: Colour Change
Try it on 3 images
Washes, Dyes and Distressing
Tie-dye, acid wash and hand distressing are the product, not a defect to be cleaned away, and they are exactly what an automated pass evens out. The variation is left where it is — including the parts that look like a mistake — while the studio background goes, because on a piece sold as one-of-a-kind the irregularity is the thing being bought.
- Wash and dye variation left alone
- No auto-levelling across the garment
- Distressing kept as it actually falls
- Background removed without touching the treatment
How this is done: Apparel Editing
Try it on 3 imagesCollars, Cuffs and Construction Detail
The collar, the ribbing and the stitching are where a buyer decides whether the piece is well made. These get reconstructed and cleaned rather than glossed over, because at listing zoom a mushy collar undoes everything the price is asking for.
- Collar and rib reconstruction
- Stitching and seam detail kept crisp
- Cuff and hem joints built properly
- Holds up under listing zoom
How this is done: Ghost Mannequin
Try it on 3 images
Unusual Shapes and Cropped Silhouettes
Streetwear does not always come in the shape a product grid expects: a cropped cape, a panelled hem, sleeves that end where nothing else does. The form is removed without straightening out the cut, because the odd silhouette is the design. It is then framed so it carries the same visual weight as the ordinary pieces beside it in the grid.
- Shape kept exactly as cut
- Form removed without squaring the hem
- Framed to sit level with the range
- Panels and layers separated cleanly
How this is done: eCommerce Photo Editing
Try it on 3 imagesThe Services a Drop Bundles
Apparel work, ghost mannequin, colour and the listing edit. Each page carries its own rate and before-and-after.
How a Drop Runs
Scheduled backwards from your launch date rather than forwards from when the files arrive.
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Send the shoot and the launch date
Both at once. The date determines how the batch is staffed, and telling us after the files land is what turns a comfortable job into a rush charge.
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We confirm the schedule and the grade
You get a delivery time against the real file count and a grade agreed on one lookbook image before it goes across the drop. Nothing starts until both are signed off.
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Edited by hand, checked as a set
A named retoucher works the whole drop so it stays coherent, and a second editor reviews it as a group rather than file by file — consistency is only visible in the set.
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Delivered together, in every output
Product cut-outs, lookbook files and social crops arrive at once, named to your convention. Revisions are unlimited before launch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you deliver a whole drop against a fixed launch date?
Yes, and it is the main reason brands move to a studio from a freelancer. Capacity is 8,000 images a day across eighty retouchers, so an entire shoot landing at once is a normal job. Send the launch date with the files and we confirm the delivery time against the real count before starting, rather than discovering the problem late.
How do you stop black garments turning into flat shapes?
By protecting separation in the shadows instead of lifting the whole garment towards grey. The hood seam, the drawcord, the ribbing and the print all need to stay distinguishable while the black still reads as black. It is the single most common thing we fix on streetwear, and it is a hand judgement rather than a slider.
Will editing damage a screen print or embroidery?
Not if the print is treated as the subject, which is how we handle it. Sharpening is applied selectively rather than globally, and print colour is checked against your reference rather than pushed with the rest of the image. Tell us the print colour reference and we work to it.
Do I need ghost mannequin shots or on-model?
Most drops use both, and they do different jobs. Ghost mannequin sells the product on the grid because the shape is clear and consistent; on-model sells the fit and the feeling in the lookbook and on social. They only work together if they are graded together, which is the part that gets skipped.
Can you produce colourways we have not shot?
Yes. One photographed piece generates the rest of the range, with the new colour rebuilt through the original texture and shadow so a heavy cotton still looks like heavy cotton. We match to Pantone, a hex value or a physical sample you send, and it is normally a fraction of the cost of shooting each colour.
How is this different from your apparel photo editing service?
The apparel service page explains the techniques — ghost mannequin, fabric cleanup, colour matching — with their rates. This page is about running them against a drop calendar, where everything is due at once and has to ship as a coherent set. Every row above links back to the service that performs the actual work.
Do you sign NDAs before a launch?
Yes, as standard on request. Unreleased product is confidential by default here: files are stored securely, deleted on request, and never appear in our portfolio or marketing without written permission. A drop leaking early through an editing supplier would be unforgivable.
How do we test you before trusting a launch to you?
Send three pieces through the free trial — ideally the black one, the printed one and the one with the most complicated construction. No card, no account. If those three come back right, the drop will too.
Industries We Also Edit For
Different way of selling, different brief. Same price list and the same production floor.
Send Three Pieces From the Next Drop
The black one, the printed one and the most awkwardly constructed one. If those work, everything else will.