An extreme close beauty portrait of a woman with green eyes, skin texture fully retained.
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Retouching

The work you're not supposed to notice.

22 frames·Austin — and wherever the files come from·Retouched files in five business days

Retouching fails loudly and succeeds invisibly. Skin that still has skin in it. Color that matches the garment the client actually sells. A sky that was always that shade at seven. We finish every frame we shoot, and we take on finishing for other people's — beauty, fashion, headshots, product, and the occasional rescue.

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A close beauty portrait of a woman with blue eyes and a bare shoulder against a dark background.
Nothing removed that makes a person a person.
A woman in glasses and a white lace top with one hand at her neck, photographed outdoors.

Skin should still look like skin.

The fastest way to date a photograph is to over-smooth it. This is frequency separation and dodge-and-burn, not a slider — the texture stays, the distraction goes.

A woman in a floral dress lying among red poppies, one hand in her hair.
Graded for the poppies, not for a preset.
A woman in a white off-shoulder top standing in warm evening light.
A close portrait of a woman with dappled light across her face, beside a wooden post.
A woman in a pale blue ruffled blouse smiling against a neutral wall.
Two

Color is the other half of the job.

Grade for the garment, the skin and the room — in that order. A frame that's beautiful and off-brand is a reshoot.

A woman in a gold dress standing in warm backlit bokeh at golden hour.

Deep skin tones are where careless retouching shows first — they go gray, or they go orange. Neither one is a look.

One session, every frame finished the same wayFrames 09–11
A model in a floral swimsuit lifting her sunglasses in dappled park light.
A close portrait of a model with wind-blown hair, smiling in a green park.
A model in a floral swimsuit seated in a rope hammock.
A red-haired woman in glasses and a black turtleneck against a gray studio background.
A woman in a blue floral puff-sleeve top standing with arms crossed under a tree.
Three

Bodies, fabric, and black and white.

Muscle definition, embroidery, lace and a good monochrome conversion are the same problem wearing different clothes: keep the detail, lose the noise.

A young woman in a green and white sweater, backlit with flyaway hair against green water.
Backlight, flyaway hair, and a green that had to stay green.
A muscular tattooed man photographed shirtless against a black studio background.
Definition without plastic.
A black and white studio portrait of a shirtless male model, one arm raised behind his head.
Monochrome is a conversion, not a filter.
A male model with curly hair in a white t-shirt against a dark background.
A woman in a white floral gown holding a bouquet of daisies outdoors.
A model in a coral embroidered outfit standing full length against a gray backdrop.
Embroidery survives the export.
A bride laughing in golden light, the groom's silhouette in the foreground.

Hard backlight, one moment, no second take. Most of the work on this frame happened afterwards.

A woman in a white blazer with long dark hair on a bright street.
A close studio portrait of a woman with red lipstick and a dark top.
If you can tell we retouched it, we didn't.
Amigo Studio

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One file, one brief. We'll show you the finish before you commit to a batch.

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