"Typical prices", below, are estimate costs for a particular service.
For actual quotes for a project please visit our
Quotes & Orders page.
Photo Repair & Restore
Yellow Cat Design repairs and restores color or black & white photographs
with damage from age, scratches, tears, spots, water, other stains, and more.
- Minor (RR-MIN)
- Facial shine, red eye from flash, small blemishes, glare reduction,
under eye circles and more.
Pricing starts at $25
- Moderate (RR-MOD)
- Removing under eye circles, moderate blemishes, fly away hair, color
to black & white, if desired, and red-eye removal. Plus, repairing other
moderate type damage such as spots and tears.
Pricing starts at $45
- Severe (RR-SEV)
- Removing under eye circles, severe blemishes, fly away hair, color
to black & white, if desired, and red-eye removal. Plus, repairing other
heavy damage such as significant spots, stains, mold, body parts are
missing, and tears.
Pricing starts at $65
- Extensive (RR-EXT)
- A photo falls into this category when it loses significant detail.
The loss of all or most of the detail on the face is a good hint that
your photo will fall under the "extensive" category.
Pricing starts at $85
[Samples]
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Photo Retouching
Retouching means taking a photo, in mostly good condition, and changing it
in some way. The change can mean adding or removing persons or objects,
skin tone adjustments, body proportion changes, image background changes,
special effects, glamorizing (face lifts, make up, weight loss, wrinkle
reduction, ...), antiquing and much more.
- Special Effects (R-SPE)
- Lighting, Background changes, gradients, blurs, tires moving, and
much more.
Pricing depends on the project
- Red Eye or Color change/enhancement (R-RED)
- Remove red-eye & re-color existing eye color.
Pricing starts at $25
- Open Eyes (R-OPEN)
- Open up eyes that are closed in photo (preferably supply a 2nd photograph
of the person with eyes open.
Pricing starts at $35
- Remove and/or add person/object (R-AR)
- Remove or add in a person, object, or partial obstacle.
Pricing starts at $35
- Glamorization (R-G)
- Reducing or erase wrinkles, blending skin tone, adding hair, and
more.
Pricing depends on the project
- Photo Antiquing (R-ATQ)
- Taking a modern photo and giving it an old-fashioned look.
Pricing starts at $30
[Samples]
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Photo Colorizing
Colorizing is the art of turning black & white or gray scale photographs
into full color photographs. We can also decolorize, turning color images
into black & white images. "Partial Colorizing" is a techniques to
colorize or decolorize only certain elements of a photo. Partial colorization
has become quite popular. An example would be to retain the color on the
photo subject and convert the remaining background to back & white.
- Color conversion from color to black & white (C-BW)
- Black & white photo conversion without retouching or restoration.
Pricing excluding print starts at $25
- Partial Colorization from color photo to black & white (C-PBW)
- Make a color photo black and white with some details remaining colored
in the black and white photo.
Pricing starts at $35
- Partial Colorizing from black & white to color (C-PC)
- Taking a B&W image and adding color to certain objects. Or taking
a colored image and changing the color for certain objects.
Pricing starts at $40 (with up to 2 persons in the image, add $15
for each additional person in image)
- Full Photo Colorizing (C-C)
- Taking a B&W image and adding color. Taking a colored image and
changing the color.
Pricing starts at $45 (Add $15
for each additional person in image)
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Photo Composites/Collages
Photo composites is essentially taking more than a single photo and combining
them to create one photo art piece.
- Photo Composite/Collage (CC)
- Taking a set of undamaged photos and creating one photo collage. Note
that large variation in quality and resolution of the photos could
complicate the project.
Pricing starts at $45 for up to 2 photos (add $20 for each
additional photo)
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Digital Matting
Digital Matting is creating a digital border around a photo. A very simple
example would be to add a border of palm trees and pineapples around your
favorite carribean photo. Digital matting can be much more complicated too.
It can include interweaving art into text, overlapping images on photos,
and designing unique borders & backgrounds.
- Matting (DM-M)
- Taking multiple photos and adding a border to create the right ambiance.
Pricing starts at $35 (for two photos. Add $15 for each extra
photo)
- Vignette (DM-V)
- Taking a single photo and changing the border to create the right ambiance.
Pricing starts at $25
[Samples]
For additional pricing information please contact
teresa@yellowcatdesign.com.