Express
from $18 per image
Skin cleanup: blemishes, temporary marks, under-eye. Exposure correction. No dodge & burn.
Your grade stays yours.
I retouch boudoir and glamour for photographers who already know what their work should look like. Skin, dodge & burn, cleanup, liquify — delivered as layered PSDs, with your colour grade untouched.
Underarm and chest, 100% crop.
Skin worked. The wall behind it: 0.1° hue shift, zero saturation change.
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Every caption below says what I did — including the stylistic calls, so you can decide whether my judgement lines up with yours. Nothing here is a mystery edit.
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Outdoor frame with lighting gear in the composition.
Light stand removed and background reconstructed through the bokeh · arm and hair edges rebuilt against foliage.
Colour grade and mood unchanged.
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Standing full-body frame, mixed light on marble.
Skin retouch · contour reshape · set cleanup (wall fixtures) · subject luminosity lifted with saturation retained · backdrop tone reduced with fabric structure intact · crop adjusted to exclude ceiling structure.
Colour grade and mood unchanged.
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Low-key studio, smoke.
Shadow detail recovered without lifting the mood · chest tattoo density preserved · skin retouch with pore structure intact · lace and dark garment detail retained · background tone matched to the original grade.
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Beauty, high-key.
Skin retouch at 100% — pores and freckles intact · brows and lashes defined, not drawn in · lens fringing cleaned along hairline · optical depth of field left untouched.
No facial reshaping.
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Garment compression at the strap line.
Contour reshape at the strap line · skin retouch · dodge & burn.
Colour grade unchanged.
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Black and white, full tonal rebuild required.
Skin retouch · dodge & burn · tonal reconstruction · fine grain applied as a stylistic choice.
Conversion intent and contrast character preserved.
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Boudoir lingerie, hard daylight.
Skin retouch · strap and elastic marks reduced, not removed · stretch marks softened, not erased · garment colour kept true to the original piece.
No body reshaping. Colour grade unchanged.
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Natural light, poolside.
Skin retouch with texture preserved · moles and freckles kept intact · redness on elbow and shoulder evened out · flyaway hair retained against water · pool tone verified numerically against the original grade.
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Natural light, outdoor.
Skin retouch with texture preserved · tonal correction on wall and foliage · hairline cleaned against textured wall · texture enhancement masked to skin (stylistic choice).
No body reshaping. Colour grade unchanged.
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Warm interior, deep skin tones, set clutter in frame.
Skin retouch · dodge & burn · set cleanup.
Skin tone and colour grade unchanged.
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Intimate frame, visible bruising on the working area.
Skin retouch · bruise reduction · dodge & burn · texture enhancement as a stylistic choice.
Colour grade unchanged.
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Beauty frame, makeup refinement requested.
Skin retouch · dodge & burn · digital makeup · lip colour enhancement as a declared adjustment.
Colour grade unchanged.
What I don't do
I don't touch your grade. Not the white balance, not the curve, not the mood. If you shot it dark, it comes back dark.
I don't reshape bodies unless you ask. And if you ask, I'll tell you where it starts to show.
I don't sand skin down to plastic. Pores stay. Freckles stay. Moles stay. Texture is the point.
I don't send back flattened files. You get the layers, so you can dial anything back without coming to me.
I don't guess. If something in the frame is ambiguous — a mark you might want kept, a set element you might have wanted there — I ask before I remove it.
Three levels
Standard
from $38 per image
Everything in Express, plus dodge & burn, light liquify, garment and minor set cleanup.
Editorial
from $80 per image
Everything in Standard, plus full dodge & burn, contour reshaping, background and object reconstruction, complex cleanup.
Volume discussed per project. Not sure which level a set needs? Send it and I'll tell you.
Turnaround
Up to 10 images: 2 business days.
11–30 images: 3–5 business days.
Larger sets and rush work: quoted per project.
How it works
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Send a link
WeTransfer, Dropbox, MEGA, Smash — whatever you already use. RAW or your own exports, both work.
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I quote per image
Fixed price by level before I start. No surprises on the invoice.
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I retouch
You get layered PSDs plus flattened exports in the space you ask for.
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One round of revisions
Included. Anything that changes the scope of the job gets requoted, and I'll say so up front.
Who's doing the work
Me. One person, every file.
I shoot as well as retouch — interiors, corporate work, and boudoir here in Mexico City. That's the reason I leave your grade alone: I know how long it takes to build one, and I'm not going to spend your time undoing mine.
Working remotely from Mexico City for photographers in the US, UK and Australia. Mexico City runs within an hour of US Central. For London and Sydney the gap works in your favour — files move while you're off the clock.
Send me a set
No form. Just email me: retouch@giovannicarrada.net
Include these four things and I can quote without a back-and-forth:
- A download link to a sample set
- Roughly how many images
- Which level you think it needs — or ask, and I'll tell you
- Your deadline
I answer within one business day.