Before you move a catalogue, put fifty to a hundred frames of a live job through our floor — your specification, your naming, your deadline — and judge the fit on that rather than on a portfolio.
Five free images show you our standard. They do not show you whether we can hold that standard across a batch, inside your pipeline, against your clock — which is the only thing that matters once volume starts.
The fit test is real production on your live files, so it is charged as production: the published per-image rate for the category, with nothing added. You keep the finished frames whatever you decide afterwards.
Fifty to a hundred frames at the band for your category — the rates are published in full on the pricing page. Nothing is added for the pilot.
If you go ahead, the pilot fee comes off your first invoice. If you do not, you keep the frames and the report and we close the file without chasing you.
The fit test is built for catalogues running roughly five hundred images a month or more — the studios and brands shooting daily into a pipeline that cannot wait.
Below that we are the wrong studio for you, and we would rather say so now than take the work. If you are under five hundred a month, the free test edit is the right door.
A paid pilot of fifty to a hundred frames taken from a live job rather than a sample set. We work to your written specification, your naming convention and the deadline the batch is actually due, then return the finished frames with a QC report. It tests whether the studio fits your production, not just whether it can retouch an image.
They answer different questions. The free test edit of five images shows you the standard of the retouching. The fit test shows you whether we can hold that standard across a batch, inside your pipeline, against your clock. That is real production work on your live files, so it is charged as production work.
The published per-image rate for the category, with nothing added for the pilot. Fifty to a hundred frames at your band. If you go ahead, the pilot fee comes off your first invoice.
Fifty to a hundred frames from a live job, your specification or style guide however rough it is, your naming convention and delivery format, and the real deadline. Send the difficult frames rather than the easy ones.
The finished frames to your specification and naming, a QC report covering what held and what varied across the batch, a written note on anything your specification leaves ambiguous, and a rate and daily throughput figure for your actual volume.
The fit test is built for catalogues running five hundred images a month or more, usually daily. Below that a high-volume studio is the wrong choice and we will say so rather than take the work.
We reply within one business day with a figure, a slot and what we need from you.