Wedding Photo Editing

Photography editing is a way of tweaking, changing or fixing photos to make them look better or to achieve a desired effect. Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, so you want pictures taken on that special day to capture the beauty and the magic, so you can cherish the memories forever. Even the best pictures sometimes have imperfections that were unavoidable at the time they were taken — that’s where wedding photo editing comes in.

For top quality wedding photographs, professional photo editing is a must-have. When you choose New Jersey Videography, you can rest easy knowing your wedding photos are going to be edited and customized to look their very best. No matter what kind of editing style you desire, the NJ Videography team has the experience, lighting and equipment to get it just right.

What Are Some Ways Photo Editing Can Improve My Wedding Photos?

Photo editing improves every wedding photograph. Professional photo editors can apply a filter to create a new look or clean up the details to enhance what’s already there. Additionally, your professional photographer uses photography editing to create photo collages. Some techniques used in wedding photo editing include:

• Cropping. This is done to remove unwanted parts of an image, such as the outside edges or superfluous background details. Cropping makes it easier to draw attention to any photo’s subject.
• Retouching. Photo editors improve your photos with small corrections, such as smoothing skin, removing flyaway hairs, whitening teeth and airbrushing. With the right editing tools, your photographer can easily remove wrinkles from clothing, glare on eyeglasses, dark circles under the eyes or the red-eye effect.
• Sharpening and toning. Colors can be adjusted for a dynamic look or corrected to appear more natural. An editor can improve the colors of the background or blur the background to emphasize the bride and groom in the foreground.
• Make-up refreshment. Make-up that’s faded can be refreshed in photos and skin color adjusted as needed.

A professional photo editor may add artistic effects to make your photos look unforgettable. Effects consist of natural shadowing, reflections or even a completely different background — such as fireworks, a rainbow or a mountain peak. Your editor can merge photos with different brightness levels to put together highlight reels and better quality images, while straightening out crooked photos.

Are There Different Photo Editing Styles?

While wedding photographers develop their own style over time, professionals understand that you may have a style in mind that you want to see reflected in the final products. When you‘re open to creative ideas, you need to work with experienced wedding photographers and editors who can preview various ideas before settling on a final style. Some examples of photo editing styles include:

• HDR editing. This refers to high dynamic range, which means an image is stored as a combination of four to eight different photographs.
• Clean editing. This style adds clarity and focuses on creating a polished look for your wedding photos by making minor improvements such as removing distracting items in a photo.
• Retro and vintage. If you’re hoping for a modern-day photo with a nostalgic feel, retro and vintage photo editing is a good choice. Reducing colors using low contrast makes a photo look vintage. A vintage look can also be achieved with black-and-white photos or by using sepia, which is a reddish brown tint.
• Matte effect. This effect minimizes the differences between dark and light areas and produces a subdued and slightly faded look.
• High contrast. Contrast is the difference between tones ranging from dark to light. High contrast photos increase the difference between light and dark areas, which creates vibrant pigments and vivid accents.
• Cross-processed. In this photo editing style, images are modified with light and color changes, which create increased contrast and interesting color shifts.
• Dark and moody. This is a good choice if you’re seeking an edgy, urban style with a lot of dark colors and contrast.

The style of editing that’s best for your wedding photos depends on what look you’re hoping to achieve. Combinations of editing styles can be used to obtain different effects. Your wedding photos should look exactly the way you want them to, and the expert photo editors at New Jersey Videography can create the look you want, whether you’re hoping for matte, vintage, sepia, black-and-white or natural and soft.

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Why Hire a Wedding Photo Editing Service?

There are many things you can’t control on your wedding day, such as cloudy days or photo bombers. But the photos that hold your priceless memories should be as close to perfect as possible. Hiring a professional who uses the best wedding photography equipment is the first step toward obtaining the highest quality images of your wedding day.

Contact the wedding photographers at New Jersey Videography. They’re skilled at taking the highest quality photos and in providing expert post-processing photo editing services. These professionals notice the small details that benefit from photo editing. They invest the time needed to understand your preferences and to make adjustments that are practically invisible.