Retouching at Beaupix Studio

Magazine-quality retouching makes perfect headshot even better. The range of correction that can be made by this process is amazing, and most people are so used to seeing retouched photographs in magazines and websites. So, why don’t you bring your headshots to the same level?

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You have a retouching option with all headshot packages offered at Beaupix Studio. The price will be adjusted when you omit retouching, or when you order extra retouching. Retouching work is all manual, elaborate, and performed by the photographer in front of you, so that you will have opportunity to make input about the amount of correction. If you opt for a standard retouching option, you get up to 15 minutes of work, which can include:

• Skin blemishes erased one by one
• Wrinkles filled line by line
• Under-eye circles covered by “grafted” healthy skin
• Skin finished with healthy skin texture
• Eyes made vivid and lifelike
• Teeth color matching
• Double chin correction (**)
• Hair root color correction (**)
• Clean up other distracting elements (**)

(**) The degree to which these can be corrected, and the work required depend on individual cases.

NOTE: Most headshot studios do not offer any retouching work at all. If asked, most people use skin smoothing, which loses natural skin texture, thereby making your skin looks like plastic bag.

Audition headshots

Audition headshots for actors, theatrical, TV, commercial should be retouched only lightly, and the correction should be limited to temporary skin problems or things that can be covered by makeup techniques, because these types of headshots are used to show exactly how you look.

What Cannot be Retouched

Just like a perfect dish is always prepared from the best and freshest ingredients in skilled hands, a perfect headshot starts with a perfect in-camera image. During the photography sessions, we pay close attention to details such as makeup, hair styling, expression, lighting work, and camera angles to capture images that are as perfect as possible in camera (picture in the left). This is, however, only the best and freshest ingredients, and not the end product.

Some people may think that Photoshop can fix almost any faults in the image, and there is no need to make effort in taking perfect in-camera images. This is false. The best, natural looking results are usually produced from best raw images with careful retouching. This is the best and least expensive way to produce the optimal results.

Drastic, heavy retouching is best left for special effects used in commercial photography. This type of work takes hours of work (very expensive) and not suitable for headshots.