Corporate Photography Services for Business

Commercial Photography,
Alteration, Retouching,
Graphic Design

Every day, progressive and new business ventures have photography requirements - It may be a photo portrait that's needed of company directors and staff, photos of products, pack-shots and business premises for brochures, advertising and publicity, for a press release, shareholder's reports, various printed projects, or for a website.

PhotoAltering.co.uk can supply all these needs.

Sometimes your company may already have the right photo for a current need, but it may be unsuitable for technical reasons such as the wrong size, colour, or it may be damaged or of inferior quality.

In cases such as these, we can repair or improve existing photos, make them like new, resize or enhance them to suit the current purpose.
With the increased use of digital sources of photography, many users become confused over issues such as resolution, colour profiling and printing size, and with good reason - It is confusing! But we can sort it out for you.

This is an excellent, professionally taken photographic portrait, well lit, well posed and styled and well suited to the commercial publicity purposes for which it was obviously intended. The subject, a professional singer, exudes a sparkling and engaging self-assurance and evokes a response of confidence in her professionalism as an entertainer.

However, after scanning and conversion to digital format, this potentially excellent picture had became dull and lifeless, and the resolution was much too high for one of its intended uses as a website illustration. Previous incorrect attempts to improve it had also resulted in oversharpening that had introduced grainy interference patterns across parts of the image, which would have made it unsuitable for printout as a large, lifesize portrait.

We de-focussed it, re-adjusted the colour and contrast and rebuilt the damaged areas, namely the eyes, which in the original had lost 'depth' due to over-sharpening. This required sharpening and re-colouring of individual pixels instead of en-bloc

The subject's complexion was good, but again, due to incorrect oversharpening of the original, it had been made to look slightly blotchy. We thus used a smoothing operation and touched up the makeup exactly as if applying real makeup to a real face. We can eradicate blemishes such as scars, spots and inoculation marks, however, although we could have removed the mole on the subject's shoulder, we chose to leave it alone as a striking, natural 'beauty spot'. Finally, before reducing the resolution to the appropriate size requirement, we added a coloured, graduated background to add a pleasant dynamism and greater depth to the picture.

		There are so many practical and business applications for photo alteration. Property developers, estate agents, architects, builders, residents associations, or the private householder can all benefit from our services in order to visualize blueprints or abstract ideas.
		To tree, or not to tree? That was the question here - An empty property, an overgrown garden, new local car parking restrictions enforced by the town council, and planning permission from a new owner for a concrete driveway in a leafy suburb. The conclusion?: Local residents tell council - "We want our gardens back!"

Commercial photo-alteration tariff

Photoaltering.co.uk operates two pricing scales, for:

a) Non-commercial (personal) work, or
b) Commercial work

For pricing of commercial or for non-commercial personal-use
photo-alterations, click here now for a price quote.

...or read further on this page for more information
about the Commercial pricing scale:

• Note: Photoaltering.co.uk retains copyright on all created photographically-altered work which we produce for you. It is for these copyright reasons that we operate the two pricing scales, one for non-commercial, and another for commercial work.
  
  
  
• Non-commercial commissions include almost any photo alterations required for private use. This is because private-use commissions are generally 'one-offs', ie they usually require the supply of only one copy of any item of photographic alteration-artwork we supply to you. Although we still retain copyright of the created image, we do not charge anything extra for your rights to reproduce the work, as in general, it is not expected that the client would need or wish to mass-reproduce the work.
  
  
  
• Under this non-commercial, private single-use tariff, we do in fact allow mass reproduction of the item at no extra charge under certain circumstances, such as for the printing of many copies of a party invitation or personal Christmas card. These we deem as 'private use'.
  
  
  
• However, clients desiring rights to reproduction of the work for commercial, business or advertising purposes are subject to slightly higher fees levied in exchange for your extended reproduction rights for commercial purposes, although PhotoAltering.co.uk, as creators of the work, will still retain copyright.
  
  
  
• Note: We never sell or otherwise release our ownership of the copyright on our artwork outright.
  We only sell licence to reproduce the artwork in pre-specified quantities and purpose.
  
  This is standard practice in the photographic and commercial art industries.

The PhotoAltering.co.uk commercial pricing scale is itself a two tier tariff structure, 'Corporate' or 'Retail':

1. CORPORATE TARIFF
   If the intended use of the altered photographic artwork we supply is to be reproduced as in-house business stationary, such as business cards, letterheads, in-house presentations, corporate Christmas cards, printed promotional flyers and advertisements, press advertisements, as illustrations for commercial Internet website use, or printed on promotional give-away items such as T-shirts, mugs, calendars
   etc, add 30 percent to the net price
   of the standard non-commercial tariff.
   Note that PhotoAltering.co.uk, as creators of the work, will still retain copyright.
   Artwork used on promotional give-away items or on the Internet must bear the words (albeit in small print) "Original artwork Copyright ©Photoaltering.co.uk 2003"
   
   

2. RETAIL TARIFF
   If the intended use of the altered photographic artwork we supply is to be reproduced for sale or distributed in any other fashion so as to result in the client's direct profit (or the profit of third parties known to or associated with the client) as a resaleable object (artistic or otherwise) in its own right, or as part of one, add 150 percent to the net price of the standard non-commercial tariff.
   PhotoAltering.co.uk, as creators of the work, will still retain copyright. A copyright licence granting permission to reproduce the work in a fixed, pre-agreed quantity and fashion will be granted. Permission to reproduce the work in larger quantities, or additional batches, or in a different fashion, may attract a higher fee and must be renegotiated as a separate contract. Artwork used in this way must bear the words "Original artwork Copyright ©Photoaltering.co.uk 2003"

   In good faith, we cordially request that commercial clients consult fully with us before embarking on intentions to resell artwork produced by Photoaltering.co.uk.
   We are flexible and open to free and fair negotiation of special rates and bespoke arrangements to the mutual benefit of all parties.
   
   Click Here to contact us for a quote.