Photo Portraits: Restore, Retouch & Colorize

This subcategory is for keeping the photograph itself — the real faces, the real moment — and making it gift-ready, not redrawing it as a cartoon. Editors here do four main jobs: clean retouching (removing glare, color-correcting, calming a busy background), restoring a torn or faded old print, colorizing black-and-white photos, and merging separate pictures into one frame, a frequent request for adding a late relative to a family shot. Send the highest-resolution scan or file you have. A phone photo of an old print works, but a flatbed scan at 600 DPI gives a far cleaner result. Digital edits usually run $15-$50 and arrive in 1-4 business days as a print-ready 300 DPI file. Heavy restoration of badly damaged photos climbs to $40-$120 and takes 5-10 days. Confirm how many revision rounds, what file format, and which print size the listing covers. For framed or canvas delivery, add 1-2 weeks and check that the maker prints, not just edits.

Filter by service type — retouch, restore, colorize, or merge — and digital vs. printed, then scan the related searches for restoration and colorizing specialists.