By Tata Rossi 19 days ago, Photo Editing Tips
PhotALL
Verdict: PhotoALL doesn’t offer the lowest prices, as you can expect to pay $0.8 per photo for color correction and light enhancements. Additionally, due to the heavy influx of orders, the quality of the retouchers’ work can dip sometimes, which is noted by a lot of users.
The PhotALL team provides its services 24/7 and employs over 100 retouchers and graphic designers who take special care to enhance each photo manually. The agency has a free trial option, but it’s limited to three services and each edited photo will have a watermark.
PhotALL Retouche is a service that includes headshot retouching, removal of distracting details, clothing enhancements, and other edits. This service is suitable for photos of all genres, but the retouchers are mainly focused on basic editing principles.
✖ Unclear difficulty level criteria for retouching tasks. The agency’s website states that their employees handle tasks of different complexity levels, ranging from basic to advanced. Even though the website lists services that are included in each level, their definition is very blurred. For instance, it’s hard to understand how Standard hair retouching differs from Advanced.
✖ Rush orders entail additional fees. The standard delivery time is 48 hours. If you want to receive the enhanced photos within 24 hours, you’ll have to pay double. Some competing agencies offer 24-hour delivery without increasing the price at all.
✖ Unrealistic portraits. You can find multiple PhotALL reviews that mention the unrealistic look of the retouched portrait photos. The model’s makeup can look too bright and create the impression of a separately drawn-in detail.
✔ Convenient dashboard. You can reach out to the team and track your order’s status by using a very intuitive and convenient system.
PhotALL Cut-Out includes all types of manipulations for eCommerce: background suppression, alignment and straightening, cropping, size adjustments, and many others. The retouchers also perform clipping path of different complexity levels, but it’s hard to judge what level of difficulty will be assigned to your image since the service description is rather vague.
✖ No pricing information regarding additional services. While competing agencies break down the prices for all their services, including shadow and color adjustments, this agency only provides a general description and overall price. You can figure out how much a specific manipulation will cost only by adding it to your order and calculating the difference manually, which is very inconvenient.
✖ Poorly edited photos. According to user reviews, some photos look under-edited and some of the important details can be cropped out.
✔ Adhere to the standards of popular eCommerce platforms. Their product retouching service matches the requirements of Amazon and eBay.
✖ Follow your style for an extra fee. While some competitors adhere to your retouching style examples for free, this agency added such an option to individual requests, which are only available for an extra fee.
✖ No examples of the ghost mannequin effect. This service is offered by the agency, but you won’t find it in the overall list or the pricing section. There also aren’t any examples. It’s simply included in the Cut-out service and adds $1.5 to the overall order cost.
Another service offered by PhotALL is photo restoration. You can order it to fix yellowed, dirty, or torn photos.
✖ Long turnaround. Unlike some competitors that complete projects within 24-48 hours, this agency usually spends 72 hours to restore a photo.
✖ No list of performed manipulations. As such, it’s hard to figure out if the retouchers can restore a photo that was damaged by water or recreate torn-off edges.
✔ No minimum number of photos requirement. According to the website, you can request photo restoration for any number of images, from 1 to 1000 or even more.
PhotALL Photo+ includes basic image editing that encompasses exposure adjustments, color strengthening, sharpness tweaks, and lighting enhancements. The agency also performs color correction.
✖ Don’t specialize in specific industries. The agency performs basic manipulations that are relevant to all industries. However, they don’t specialize in any specific fields, which is why they don't know the ins and outs of say wedding photo retouching.
✖ Don’t account for the client’s individual preferences. This service is the cheapest on the list, costing $0.8, which is why you’re expected to fully entrust the retouchers with your photos since you can’t provide any specific instructions.
✖ Restricted free trial. The agency lets you test 3 services for free: Retouche, Cut-Out, and Photo+. All the other services can’t be tested. Additionally, the delivered trial photos will have the company’s watermark.
✖ Confusing quality control. PhotALL’s orders are completed by both in-house retouchers and freelance experts who are supervised by a dedicated account manager. However, it’s hard to predict how good this manager is at recognizing quality retouching work and if they can keep track of all incoming orders.
The CreateALL service includes montage, collage, transformation, and creation. However, according to the average PhotALL review and available portfolio examples, the team doesn’t have a lot of experience in this area. That’s why if you’re interested in more creative and difficult image manipulation techniques, you should probably reach out to one of the competitors.
✖ Unintuitive website. If you want to learn more about the agency’s services, be ready to spend a lot of time studying the site’s UI. You can’t scroll the page down until you have read through the entire first screen.
The pricing section is also laid out poorly, as you constantly have to go back and forth to check out the price for each added service.
✖ RAW files are provided for an additional fee. You’ll receive the edited photos in JPG format. If you want to get the RAW files, be prepared to pay an extra fee of $0.4 per image.
✖ Price can change after the project has been planned out. The prices are provided for the basic service level. If after examining your photos, they’ll decide the order is more difficult, you’ll receive a revised quote.
✔ 24/7 work hours. You can contact a manager at any time of day or night, including the weekends.
PhotALL Pro Photo is aimed at photos of influencers, fashion experts, celebrities, and premium products that will be featured in ads, exhibitions, and other prominent venues. The retouchers perform high end photo retouching after studying your style by examining your portfolio and samples of past images.
✔ Preliminary photo analysis. The retouchers analyze your photo before getting to work. They examine the lighting, available textures, depth of field, and color scheme while also checking out your usual photography style.
✖ No information regarding revisions. The official website doesn’t mention the agency’s revision policy. You can’t find out if they are included in the price and if they are included in this service at all.
✔ Don’t use AI software. All manipulations are done manually in software like Photoshop and other premium image editing tools.
The cost of the services depends on the complexity of the task. On average, the Retouch service will cost you $3.2 per image, while Cut-Out without any additional manipulations will send you back $2. The Restore service costs $10, while Photo+ is $0.8.
CreateALL and PhotoPro don’t have fixed prices, as the cost of such orders is calculated by the manager for each client individually.
Verdict: Unlike PhotALL, FixThePhoto separates its services by genre. Their retouchers specialize in wedding retouching, portrait and eCommerce, as well as real estate, newborn, and family editing.
FixThePhoto doesn’t limit itself to basic tasks, handling complex orders as well. However, while the PhotALL barely show any examples of their work, FixThePhoto not only showcases the results in before/after format but provides a detailed description of all the edits as well.
FixThePhoto also offers a free trial option. Moreover, this free trial isn’t limited to certain services and the results don’t have a watermark. Additionally, FixThePhoto has a mobile app that allows you to place an order in just a few taps.
Verdict: WeEdit.Photos offer services for wedding, portrait, and product photos as well as multiple other genres. Akin to PhotALL, the agency performs tasks like color correction, background removal, and high-end retouching. It stands apart from the former with its faster delivery time of up to 24 hours.
Customer support is available 24/7, and you can ask your question via email, chatbot, or Facebook Messenger. This service also offers great discounts for large orders and return customers.
Verdict: ShootDotEdit specializes in wedding and portrait retouching. It doesn’t offer services related to the eCommerce industry the way they do it at PhotALL.
The turnaround time for large orders is up to 5 days. The website doesn’t mention prices for specific services, but you can purchase a monthly subscription, with the 30 days being offered to you for free.
Verdict: Ymage provides services for eCommerce and product photos. They perform background deletion, add a ghost mannequin, improve the colors, and much more. Just like PhotALL, this agency lets you take advantage of a dashboard that is also optimized for mobile devices.
If this is your first time ordering their services, you can get the initial 10 photos enhanced for free. The agency also provides discounts for bulk orders.
Verdict: IIPVAPI offers a good range of services including Cut-out, Clipping path, Masking, Image retouching, Enhancement, Restoration, and Vectorization. Similar to PhotALL, this agency lets you test its services for free on 2-3 photos of different difficulty levels.
On average, it takes them up to 24 hours to complete your project. For large orders, you can expect to get the results within 3 work days.
Verdict: Retouchup performs clipping path, color correction, in-depth retouching, picture restoration, and a variety of other services. Akin to PhotALL, this agency offers 3 complexity levels while also having fixed prices instead of requiring you to get a subscription. The color correction service also offers an attractive discount for any orders over 50 photos.
Verdict: Color Experts International provides photo editing services for individual clients and businesses alike. They specialize in techniques like clipping path, photo masking, retouching, invisible mannequins, color enhancements, restoration, and many others. This agency is primarily aimed at accepting bulk orders.
Just like PhotoALL, Color Experts International offers 24/7 support as well as a free trial option.
Verdict: Ephotovn handles orders related to headshot, portrait, newborn, real estate, and high-end photo retouching. You can test the company’s services for free by sending them one of your images. As for the turnaround time, this service outperforms PhotoALL by delivering the results in 24 hours.
Verdict: Path Edits accepts orders related to retouching, backdrop removal, photo masking, shadow enhancements, ghost mannequins, and other popular photo editing techniques. The first two photos you send them can be edited free of charge.
Just like PhotoALL, you can shorten the turnaround time by paying an extra fee. By default, you’ll get the photos in 24 hours, but you can reduce the waiting time down to 6 hours.
Verdict: RetouchGem can enhance the colors and exposure in your photos, deal with distracting elements, and merge several images into a single photo. Unlike PhotoALL, this agency employs all its retouchers in-house and the client’s style preferences are adhered to for any order. The turnaround time for both agencies is the same – 2 business days.
