Go from OK to OMG

Showpiece Retouching Service

Go from OK to OMG

Want to offer your clients "showpiece quality" portraits that have the world-famous Sean Archer style?

Simply upload your portraits and we will hand retouch your images into works-of-art!

Turn-Key Service Includes:

1. Expert Skin Retouching - We incorporate expert techniques to ensure you will never get a flat or plastic look like you see in $5 retouch services or apps. For every image, we deploy:

1. • Frequency Separation
2. • Dodge & Burning
3. • Hot Spot Reduction
4. • Skin Glow

2. Relighting - Poorly-lit portraits are transformed into amazingly dimensional images that jump off the canvas. Get SEAN ARCHER's signature lighting technique improving the light on your subject's face, giving you ideal depth and dimension in every portrait.

3. Blended Background Texture - We apply a signature background texture. You can request any Background Texture from our store, or we can do it for you.

4. Awesome Eyes - Enhances 8 dimensions of your subjects eyes including color, shape, contrast, intensity and sharpness.

5. Color Correction & Effects - We start by color correcting for optimized skin tone and then apply professional fine art LUTS that apply tonal effects to your subject and background.
6. Finishing Effects - 9 finishing effects put for a perfect portrait including perfect Vignetting and a Painterly effect to give your images a true fine-art feel. We strictly adhere to our privacy policy, and we do NOT use customer photos for portfolio unless explicit permission is granted.

Estimated Turnaround Time - Estimated turnaround/delivery time is 48 hours. Rush turnaround is 24 hours for $50. The majority of orders will be delivered within estimated turnaround time, except for a the reasons below:

- • Service category was ordered incorrectly;
- • The instructions for editing are insufficient, obscure, or ambiguous;
- • Submission is out of our service scope (will be canceled and refunded).

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Deliverables

1. You get a high-resolution, optimized JPG:

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2. You also get the entire layered .PSD editing file for you to customize any way you wish. Here are the layers included:

Step-by-step Video Tutorials

Learn Sean Archer's post-processing secrets with tuturials that walk you through his techniques

Finishing FX Layers

9 finishing effects put for a perfect portrait including Renaissance Color Tone and Painterly effects to give your images a true fine-art feel

Split-Tone Color Effects

12 individual cross-processing layers for you to choose from or mix and match - each non-destructive and adjustable
Contact sheet layer displays 12 color options that you can instantly compare and select
Balance color of subjects and backgrounds

Pro Cheeks

Control color and density on this masked adjustment layer

Pro Lips

Control color and density on this masked adjustment layer

Hot Spot Reducer

Dial up or down any hotspots on your subject's face with this masked adjustment layer

Depth Contouring

Dedicated Dodge & Burn Layers to enhance depth contouring

Impeccable Vignettes

12 vignette options that you can instantly compare and select
Control size, shape, depth and density

Professional Face Relighting

Move, reposition and adjust an independent face light to brighten your subject's most important feature

Professional Eye Adjustments

Enhance 8 dimensions of your subject's eyes
Customizable color correction, gamma, intensity and sharpness boosting effects

Local Dodge & Burn

Separate Dodge & Burn Layers to for correcting skin details

Frequency Separation

Separate High and Low Frequency Layers for the best skin retouching

Professional Color LUTS

LUT contact sheet layer displays 12 color options that you can instantly compare and select
Choose from and combine 12 LUTS with complete control of depth and opacity

Background Texture & Lighting

Relight your image with 2 background lights that are pefectly masked out behind your subject
Your choice of any LensLab Background texture included
Eliminates need to shoot with special studio backgrounds
Non-destructive adjustment layers let you perfectly blend backgrounds to your liking
Separately adjust balance between background exposure and your subject