picWorkflow Adds Photo Retouching Service

picWorkflow Announces Photo Retouching Services: Offers everything from color correction to turning that frown upside down

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - Bob Davies, owner and founder of picWorkflow, today announced the official launch of photography retouching services for clients seeking photo editing assistance. picWorkflow allows photographers to focus on their craft and leave the stress of photo editing to picWorkflow’s expert team. The company focuses especially on editing, producing and distributing stock photography, as well as everyday uses for photo editing needs.

At just $0.90 an image, picWorkflow offers top tier professional quality work at an unbeatable price. Included in the initial edit of a photograph is the raw processing of color correction, white balance, noise management and JPEG conversions. picWorkflow also offers the ability to choose the best images based on batches of several pictures from photography sessions for a few cents each. In addition to the basic retouching services offers, clients are also able to choose from raw processing, dust spotting, eye brightening, teeth whitening, facial shine removal, stray hair removal, merging images, removal of logos, photo restoration, removal of glasses or braces and much more ranging from a few cents to a couple of dollars depending on the amount of work needed.

Clients are given total control over what they require in their pictures and picWorkflow is committed to leaving customers 100% satisfied with their work. Their experienced teams of editors will suggest what would be best for a photograph while also considering the needs of the client. Photographers simply need to upload their images to the website, choose the retouching tasks desired and provide information about the desired result, and one of the experienced professionals will personally work through the images to deliver the highest quality product and service. picWorkflow’s retouching team handles over 10,000 images every day and continues to build a strong client-base.

picWorkflow offers online stock and commercial photo workflow tools and services for clients. It is part of the company picNiche, which started in early 2008 as a simple tool to help research the potential for new images in the microstock photography market. Since then it has grown to include a variety of tools and websites for photographers and image-buyers, all with the goal and dedication of improving the stock photo workflow, reducing production overheads, and ultimately increasing a business’s revenue from stock photography.

Everything in the picNiche suite is owned and operated by Bob Davies, a stock photographer and illustrator with a modest stock portfolio at various agencies. He is an experienced software engineer and workflow specialist, and has worked on many workflow-improvement projects for top corporate clients around the United Kingdom.

Visit http://www.picWorkflow.com to view our before and after gallery and to find out more.

picWorkflow 2011 - 2012

What happened at picWorkflow in 2011, and what are the plans for the year 2012? Lets take a closer look:

What happened in 2011?

• picWorkflow:
  • added photo keywording and captioning services
  • a TON of interface-tweaks, so you can now…
    • Sort your workspace
    • Search your workspace
    • Check for metadata quality
    • Maximise the workspace view
    • Toggle larger thumbnails/previews
    • Set destinations ‘on’ import
    • Buy keywords/captions ‘on’ import
    • Download keyworded/captioned images manually
    • Check metadata quality against agency requirements
    • Copy/paste captions across images
    • Check your images for spelling errors
    • and MANY more
  • Export from lightroom to microstock agencies
  • Use our photo keywording/captioning API
  • Retrieve picNiche-rated highlights for your existing keywords
  • Embed image promotion widgets of all your agency portfolios in your website/blog
  • Agencies can now set themselves as a free-destination for uploads (Depositphotos took PicWorkFlow first ever sponsor spot
  • More free distribution in the ‘free usage’ tier AND free distribution for images with purchased keywords
• released the first cross-agency stock photo search mobile app
• presented at StockInRussia and posted my presentation about the mature microstock marketplace on youtube
• presented at Microstock Expo, the microstock expo presentations are all online here
• shared picNiche data into the keyword workflow on Leaf’s excellent microstock keywording tool
• Blog highlights:
  • Microstock 2011 – an Infographic Review all big the events of 2011 in the Microstock industry and a bunch of data I’ve pulled together throughout the year
  • TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer’s Searches
  • Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?
  • And others

What’s coming in 2012?

• Model release management will be along in January
• The picWorkflow retouching service should be along within the first month or two of the year
• Review service will be added for agencies to reduce reviewing costs (and provide better and more ‘actionable’ feedback for photographers)
• To improve workflow a LOT… picWorkflow will soon have an agency-api so they can ask picWorkflow for data about an image during submission
• Free storage (currently 7 days) will be extended significantly (secured backup storage will still be available for additional payment.
• Pre-review service for photographers so you can have someone else select which images should go where and provide you feedback on improving your portfolio
• Geo-tagging interface is in-development
• SEO-friendly portfolio mini-sites will be coming to help increase the search-engine visibility of your images on the microstock agencies.
• PicWorkflow is also looking at some social-media stuff, though using it in a non-spammy way is hard as they like to release something genuinely useful (not the spambots most microstock sites are doing already).
• ‘Social’ and promotion distribution (Flickr, Zazzle, etc etc) with watermarking and promo-metadata
• Shoot management and performance metrics (also toying with the idea of putting a model-user type in there too so your TFD models can download their images directly in web-friendly sizes)
• PicWorkflow also discussing partnering with the excellent Stock Performer to include microstock earnings stats into picWorkflow to really bring together some useful charts and the like for anyone who also uses their tool. (Soooo glad they’ve built it, and in a very innovative way… best possiblity I’ve seen yet for reliable earnings-stats collection)

Website: http://www.picWorkflow.com