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After-AI Photo Editing
Keep your AI tool. We fix what it leaves — crops reframed by eye, horizons levelled, subjects masked properly, skin kept human. From 4 cents an image, back in 24 to 48 hours.
Why This Exists
AI Gets You Most of the Way
AI editing tools genuinely work. Trained on your own catalogue they will take a wedding gallery a long way in minutes, and no serious volume photographer should be ignoring that. This page is not an argument against them.
But the last stretch is stubborn, and it is stubborn in predictable places. Crops go to the detected subject, which quietly centres people you deliberately placed off-centre. Straightening averages the frame rather than picking the line a human would. Skin smoothing runs at one strength across every face in the gallery. And mixed lighting — tungsten reception, stained glass, a marquee at dusk — is where colour profiles fall apart most visibly.
The result is a gallery that is eighty percent finished and still needs a human on every frame, which is exactly the work you bought the tool to stop doing. At 4 cents an image it is cheaper to hand that last stretch over than to spend your own evenings on it — and at 7 cents you get manual colour on top, which is the tier most wedding work needs.
Want the whole edit done by hand instead? That is wedding colour correction from $0.12. Weighing up the two approaches: AI versus professional editing.
Hybrid Workflow
Where This Fits in Your Stack
Most high-volume photographers now run some version of a hybrid workflow: let the machine do the repetitive part, keep a human on the part that needs judgement. Three layers, and we are the third.
- Layer 1
AI culling
Aftershoot, Narrative Select, FilterPixelThree thousand frames down to the selects, in minutes rather than an afternoon. Nothing here needs a human.
Or hand the culling to us, from $0.03 - Layer 2
AI editing pass
Imagen, Lightroom profiles, ON1Your trained profile takes the gallery most of the way — exposure, white balance and your baseline look, applied at volume.
- Layer 3
The human finish
This serviceThe stretch that needs judgement rather than averages: crops, horizons, masks worked per subject, skin per face, colour in mixed light.
There is nothing to integrate and no plugin to install. Whichever tools you use, export the gallery the way you already do and send us the folder — we work from the images, not from your software.
What Is Included
The Last Twenty Percent
Cropping
Reframed by eye rather than to a rule. AI crops to the detected subject, which centres people who were deliberately placed off-centre and cuts the composition you shot.
Straightening
Horizons and verticals levelled against what is actually meant to be straight in the frame — a horizon line, a doorframe, an aisle — not against an average of the edges.
Subject Mask
The subject masked properly so adjustments land on the people rather than on everything at once, which is where automated presets most visibly overreach.
Smooth Skin
Gentle skin work applied per image, kept well short of the uniform plastic finish that batch AI retouching produces when it runs at one strength across a whole gallery.
Manual Colour Correction
At $0.07: white balance and tone set by a human per image, so a reception lit by tungsten and a ceremony lit through stained glass both come back right.
Built for Volume
Priced for whole weddings and full galleries rather than selects, because the point of running AI first was volume and the cleanup has to keep up with it.
Who It Suits
Worth It For These
How It Runs
AI Output to Deliverable Gallery
Run your AI pass first
Keep your existing tool and your existing profile. This service starts where that finishes — we are not asking you to abandon what you already pay for.
Send the exported gallery
The full set, not selects. Tell us which tier: $0.04 without colour correction if your AI profile already nails colour, $0.07 with manual correction if it does not.
We clean up per image
Crops reframed, horizons levelled, subject masked, skin worked gently, and colour corrected by hand at the $0.07 tier — image by image rather than by preset.
Review and revise
Back in 24 to 48 hours. Compare against your AI output at full screen — the difference shows most in the crops and the mixed-light frames. Revisions included.
Common Questions
After-AI editing questions
How much does after-AI editing cost per image?
Two tiers. $0.04 per image covers cropping, straightening, subject masking and smooth skin. $0.07 per image adds manual colour correction on top. Both are priced for full galleries rather than selects.
Which tier do I need?
If your AI profile already gets colour right in your usual venues, take the $0.04 tier. If mixed lighting keeps breaking it — tungsten receptions, stained glass, marquees at dusk — take $0.07 and have colour set by hand. Most wedding work needs the second.
Do I have to stop using my AI tool?
No, the opposite. Keep your tool and your trained profile and run your pass exactly as you do now. This service starts where that finishes. We are fixing the last stretch, not replacing what you already pay for.
What does AI actually get wrong?
Predictable things. Crops go to the detected subject, so anyone deliberately placed off-centre gets recentred. Straightening averages the frame instead of picking the line that matters. Skin smoothing runs at one strength across every face. And mixed lighting is where colour profiles fail most visibly.
Will the skin still look natural?
Yes. Skin is worked per image and kept well short of the uniform finish batch AI produces at a single strength. If your AI pass has already over-smoothed a gallery, tell us and we will work from the originals instead.
Can you handle a whole wedding gallery?
Yes, and it is priced for exactly that. Send the full exported set rather than selects — the point of the AI pass was volume, and the cleanup is built to keep up with it.
How is this different from your standard colour correction?
Standard wedding colour correction from $0.12 is the whole edit done by hand from your RAWs. This is cleanup after your own AI pass, so it costs less and assumes the tool already did the bulk. Which is cheaper depends on how good your profile is.
What files should I send?
Your exported AI-processed gallery. If you also have the original RAWs, send a link to those too — occasionally a frame is better rescued from source than corrected after the fact, and we will tell you when that is the case.
What is a hybrid editing workflow?
Running AI and human editing together rather than choosing between them. The AI handles the repetitive bulk — culling, exposure, white balance, your baseline look — and a human takes the remaining stretch that needs judgement rather than averages. This service is that second half, priced so handing it over costs less than doing it yourself.
Does this work with Imagen, Aftershoot or Lightroom?
Yes, and with anything else. We work from your exported gallery, not from your software, so there is no plugin, no integration and no account to connect. Export the way you already do and send the folder. That applies equally to Imagen, Aftershoot, Narrative, FilterPixel, ON1, Lightroom profiles or your own presets.
Do you handle the AI culling step too?
We cull by hand rather than by tool, from $0.03 an image, using star ratings in Lightroom. Plenty of photographers run an AI culler themselves and send us only the edit work — both are fine, and you can hand over as much or as little of the workflow as you want.
Can I see it on my own gallery first?
Yes. Send a set and we will clean it up free, with no card required. Compare against your AI output at full screen — the difference shows most in the crops and the mixed-light frames.
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