Send us
a set.

The shoot happened and the edit is what is stuck. Send the frames and we will finish them: color, exposure, cleanup, and a single consistent grade across the whole set so images shot hours apart still look like one shoot.

Fee$9 – $45 per image
TurnaroundThree to seven days
MinimumTen images
ApprovalReference frame first, then the set

Need the pictures made in the first place? Book a shoot instead .

See the full cost breakdown and hours

Who this is for

  • You shot it yourself and the frames are good but the finishing is not.
  • A set came back from another photographer inconsistent, and it shows on the page.
  • You have an archive worth using that was never properly graded.
  • One frame is the shot and it is two stops underexposed.
  • Your team can shoot but nobody there wants to spend a weekend in Lightroom.

How it runs

01

Send a reference frame

One representative image, plus a line about what the set is for. No charge, no commitment.

02

We treat it and send it back

You see the exact grade and level of retouching before a single other frame is touched.

03

Approve the treatment

Adjust it as many times as you need. This is the cheapest possible place to change your mind.

04

The set runs

The approved treatment applied across the whole set, frame by frame rather than by batch preset, so nothing drifts.

What you get

  • Finished files in web and print sizes, in the color space you need.
  • One consistent grade across the set, corrected per frame rather than applied as a preset.
  • The reference frame free, before you commit to anything.
  • Layered files on request for the heavier work, so your team can adjust later.
  • An honest verdict on any frame we do not think can be saved, before we bill for trying.

What it is not

Scope boundary

We do not fabricate what was not photographed. Removing a distraction, recovering an exposure, and cleaning a product are all fair game; inventing a background that never existed is a different job and we will say so. Sets under ten images are priced as a single set rather than per image.

Send us a set

Send this first and we will ask for one reference frame. You see the treatment before you commit to the set. We reply within two business days.

Prefer email? hello@ambolt.co. If we are not the right studio for this, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Three depths of finishing

Priced per image, because that is the honest unit. Send a test frame first if you want to see the treatment before committing a set.

Standard

$12 / image
Three to five days
Hours includedTen image minimum
Color and exposure correction
Basic skin and object cleanup
Consistent crop and straighten
Delivered as web and print files
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Most chosen

Set Grade

$9 / image
Five to seven days
Hours includedFifty image minimum
Everything in Standard
One grade applied consistently across the whole set
Per-frame corrections so nothing drifts
Reference frame approved before the set runs
Best value on event and campaign volume
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Rescue

$45 / image
Quoted per set
Hours includedPriced per frame
Exposure recovery from near-black or blown highlights
Complex removal and background reconstruction
Composites and multi-frame blends
Product cleanup to catalog standard
We will tell you up front if a frame cannot be saved
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How the hours work. Fixed-price engagements are scoped at a blended $100 an hour; fractional creative direction is scoped at $145 an hour, because it is senior time rather than production. The hours above are what the price is built from. We track against them and tell you where we are, and if a scope change pushes past the block we say so before the work happens rather than after.

Let's strike
while the iron
is hot.

Companies leave here looking like one company again. The same voice on the site, the deck, the ad, and the booth. Every quarter you wait is another quarter of good work going out under a brand that undersells it.

Prefer email? hello@ambolt.co
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