Outsourced Photo Editing
Outsource Photo Editing and Retouching
Hand your post-production to a team of 100+ editors. Portrait, product, real estate, wedding and restoration work — edited to your style and back in 24 to 48 hours.
What It Means
Editing is the part of the job that does not scale
Shooting scales. You can take on a second wedding, a bigger listing, a larger catalogue. Editing does not — every extra frame is another frame somebody has to sit with. That is why most photographers hit the same ceiling: the backlog grows faster than the calendar, and the work that brings in money waits behind the work that does not.
Outsourcing photo editing moves that work to a team that does nothing else. You keep the shooting, the client relationship and the creative direction. We take the culling, the colour, the retouching and the export — the hours that were coming out of your evenings. Plenty of photographers start narrower than that: outsourcing retouching alone, and keeping the cull and the colour in-house until they trust the fit.
Pinnacle Edits has done this since 2019, for more than 1,200 clients and across 6 million images. Not through a marketplace or a rotating pool of freelancers, but with a named editor assigned to your account who learns how you like your images and stays with them.
Still deciding whether outsourcing is right for you at all? Our outsourced vs. in-house comparison works through cost, turnaround and consistency, and the freelancer vs. editing company guide covers what changes as volume grows.
Scope
What You Can Outsource
Six specialisms, one account, one point of contact. Send a mixed batch and it goes to the right desk.
Portrait & Beauty Retouching
Skin retouching, blemish and stray-hair removal, dodge and burn, and colour work that keeps skin texture intact.
From $0.50/image≈ From £0.37/image · From €0.43/image
See the serviceProduct & Ecommerce
Background removal, pure-white marketplace backgrounds, shadows, ghost mannequin and catalogue-scale consistency.
From $0.25/image≈ From £0.18/image · From €0.21/image
See the serviceReal Estate & Interiors
HDR blending, window masking, sky replacement, perspective correction, decluttering and day-to-dusk conversions.
From $0.45/image≈ From £0.33/image · From €0.39/image
See the serviceWedding & Event Galleries
Full-gallery culling support, colour correction and grading that holds one look across thousands of frames.
From $0.12/image≈ From £0.09/image · From €0.10/image
See the servicePhoto Restoration
Torn, creased, stained and faded originals repaired by hand, plus colourisation of black-and-white photographs.
From $3.50/photo≈ From £2.57/photo · From €3.00/photo
See the serviceAI Output Clean-Up
Evoto, Imagen and Aftershoot output reviewed and corrected by editors so the batch ships client-ready.
From $0.50/image≈ From £0.37/image · From €0.43/image
See the servicePricing Models
Three Ways to Work With Us
Pick the one that matches your volume. You can move between them as the season changes.
Per image
From $0.12
Pay for what you send. Best for photographers with uneven volume — a busy wedding season, an occasional listing shoot, a one-off catalogue.
- No minimum order
- No monthly commitment
- Same 24–48 hour turnaround
Dedicated editor
From $600/mo
One editor who learns your presets and your preferences and stays with your account. Part-time $600/month, full-time $1,100/month.
- Consistent style across every batch
- Priority in the queue
- Scale to a team as volume grows
Project & package
Quoted
Fixed scope, fixed price — album design from $0.90/page, video packages from $150, and bulk batches from 50 to 10,000+ images.
- Quoted within 24 hours
- Bulk pricing on volume
- Free sample edit first
The Process
How Outsourcing Actually Runs
01
Send a free test batch
Upload a handful of representative files with a short brief — or just your reference edits. No card, no commitment.
02
We match an editor to your style
You get a named editor with a background in your genre. They work to your reference edits, not to a house look.
03
Delivery in 24–48 hours
Files come back through Dropbox, WeTransfer or Google Drive in JPEG, TIFF or PSD — whatever your workflow already uses.
04
Revisions until it matches
Flag anything that is off and it comes back corrected. Revisions are included until you are satisfied, not capped at two rounds.
Why Pinnacle Edits
What You Get That a Marketplace Cannot Give You
- A dedicated editor who learns your style instead of a rotating pool
- 100+ editors on staff, so a 10,000-image batch moves as fast as a 50-image one
- 24–48 hour standard turnaround, with rush available
- Revisions included until the edit matches your reference
- NDA on request, GDPR-compliant handling and encrypted transfers
- Time-zone coverage — send at end of day, review the next morning
1,200+
clients since 2019
6M+
images edited
24–48h
standard turnaround
NDA
available on request
Common Questions
Outsourcing questions
How much does it cost to outsource photo editing?
It depends on the work. Wedding and event colour correction starts at $0.12 per image, image extraction at $0.25, retouching at $0.50, real estate at $0.45, and photo restoration at $3.50 per photo. If you have steady volume, a dedicated editor is $600 per month part-time or $1,100 full-time, which usually works out cheaper than per-image pricing above roughly 2,000 images a month.
Can I outsource Photoshop retouching specifically?
Yes — Photoshop retouching outsourcing is one of the most common ways clients start with us. Our editors work in Photoshop and Lightroom, and we take layered PSD work: frequency separation, dodge and burn, compositing, masking and ghost mannequin. Send your PSDs or your RAWs and tell us which stage you want back.
Can I outsource photo retouching without handing over my whole workflow?
Yes, and most clients do at first. Outsource photo retouching on its own and keep culling, colour and export in-house — or send a single service such as skin retouching or background removal. There is no minimum scope, and no requirement to move the rest of the pipeline before you are ready.
Will the edits match my style?
That is what the dedicated editor model is for. Send reference edits, presets or a previously delivered gallery and your editor works to them. They stay on your account, so consistency improves rather than resetting with each batch.
How fast is the turnaround on outsourced editing?
Most orders are delivered within 24 to 48 hours, including large batches, because the work is split across a team rather than queued behind one editor. Rush turnaround is available on request.
Is it safe to send client images to an outsourcing company?
We sign an NDA on request, follow GDPR-compliant handling practices, and transfer files encrypted through Dropbox, WeTransfer or Google Drive. Your images are used for your job only — we do not publish client work without written permission.
Can I test the quality before committing?
Yes. New clients get a free trial batch — send a representative set of images with your brief and you get them back professionally edited, with no card required and no obligation to continue.
What file formats do you work with and deliver?
We accept RAW files from all major camera systems, plus JPEG, TIFF and layered PSD. Delivery is in JPEG, TIFF or PSD, at whatever resolution and colour space your workflow needs.
Do you handle bulk and recurring volume?
Yes. Batches run from 50 to 10,000+ images, and studios with ongoing volume typically move to a dedicated editor or a dedicated team so capacity is reserved rather than shared.
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Tell Us What You Need Edited
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Outsourced Photo Editing
Project Details
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