Mattimis
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It really depends. Most of my marketing is word of mouth because generally I dont advertise myself as a retouch.
As for photographers paying for retouching I get 3 types of client.
1. Make enough profit and have enough business that they dont want to bother learning to retouch. (very rare)
2. Have no idea how to true perfect an image and would rather not have doo doo images
3. Photographers that want portfolio images perfected beyond their knowledge.
As for pricing it really depends on your relationship and the work that needs to be done, those particular images were for an engagement photoshop and the reason it was 600 is because it was such a large number of files (46) if I remember right. After speaking with her she really wanted them as nice as she could afford which ended up being about 14 dollars an image (which isnt a bad price for something from a professional) I hear allot of so so retouchers I know charging 70 dollars an hour and they are terribly slow so it would be nearly an hour an image to get the same results.
That being said I had photographer hire me for some work he got in vogue last month and to my knowledge he wasnt even being paid for the images he just wanted to make sure they were perfect since its more for his personal advertising than anything, but for the 3 images I spent about 15 hours total, and these are images with proper color and exposure (just to give an idea of how long it truly takes to retouch an image to be high caliber.)
I wish I had better advice for marketing yourself, but it was never something I advertised. Before I got my mfa I got my bs in computer engineering so when I started my bfa I already had a better grasp on computers than most of the other students and thus learned ps much quicker, and once people noticed the phone started ringing. When you help someone out and they love it, they tell their friends
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OMG...how do you market yourself for this? Time absolutely FLIES when I am in photoshop or lightroom because I enjoy it so much......I can't sit still and read textbooks, but I can do this for hours upon hours while robbing myself of sleep. I tend to use Lightroom way more since my computer lags more with photoshop. I also have way more to learn about PS. Sounds like the perfect side-job for me... Here's an example of a photo I spent quite a bit of time on taking away like 10 years of age from this couple's face. I especially like the look of the black and white version. The added catch-lights in the eyes might have been a little excessively done
So the photographer who took those pictures for the couple paid you $600 because that was more cost-time effective for him?
I'll look for the before file.
It really depends. Most of my marketing is word of mouth because generally I dont advertise myself as a retouch.
As for photographers paying for retouching I get 3 types of client.
1. Make enough profit and have enough business that they dont want to bother learning to retouch. (very rare)
2. Have no idea how to true perfect an image and would rather not have doo doo images
3. Photographers that want portfolio images perfected beyond their knowledge.
As for pricing it really depends on your relationship and the work that needs to be done, those particular images were for an engagement photoshop and the reason it was 600 is because it was such a large number of files (46) if I remember right. After speaking with her she really wanted them as nice as she could afford which ended up being about 14 dollars an image (which isnt a bad price for something from a professional) I hear allot of so so retouchers I know charging 70 dollars an hour and they are terribly slow so it would be nearly an hour an image to get the same results.
That being said I had photographer hire me for some work he got in vogue last month and to my knowledge he wasnt even being paid for the images he just wanted to make sure they were perfect since its more for his personal advertising than anything, but for the 3 images I spent about 15 hours total, and these are images with proper color and exposure (just to give an idea of how long it truly takes to retouch an image to be high caliber.)
I wish I had better advice for marketing yourself, but it was never something I advertised. Before I got my mfa I got my bs in computer engineering so when I started my bfa I already had a better grasp on computers than most of the other students and thus learned ps much quicker, and once people noticed the phone started ringing. When you help someone out and they love it, they tell their friends
.
