Natural acne and blemish retouching for one portrait

This package provides manual retouching for one portrait, focused on mild-to-moderate skin concerns.

A portrait should present you looking your best, not like an over-processed mannequin. Skin imperfections are among the hardest things to edit well, since careless retouching tends to flatten pores and texture, leaving a face looking artificial. Handled correctly, the finished image should look like naturally clear skin rather than an obvious edit.

This service treats a single portrait with light-to-moderate acne, blemishes, redness or shine. All work is done manually in Photoshop, with no automated filters or blur effects applied. Each spot, pimple and patch of redness is corrected individually, oily areas are evened out, and the underlying pore structure and skin texture are kept intact. Freckles, moles or birthmarks you wish to retain are left untouched.

To begin, send your image as a RAW, JPEG or TIFF file at the best resolution available. Mention any features that should stay as they are, such as freckles or beauty marks, and tell us whether the photo will be used for print, the web or social media. Once the brief and files are confirmed, the retouching is completed by hand and a high-resolution JPEG is returned within 2 days.

This smaller offering reflects the Light Clean tier of a broader portrait-retouching service, which also addresses more extensive scarring, deeper texture correction, contouring work, under-eye shadows and sets of multiple photographs. If this result suits your needs, the fuller service can take on more demanding images when you are ready.

What happens after you buy

Your order opens its own thread here the moment it is paid, and everything about that order - questions, changes and the final report - happens in it.