Salman G.

High-end photo manipulation, commercial retouching, and brand imagery for companies that can't afford an image to look edited. Furniture, beauty, apparel, e commerce, and early stage brands building a visual identity from nothing. Six years of manual compositing and matte painting projects past 500 layers, built by hand before any of this was automatable. Generation gets an image most of the way there, then fails at edge quality, light direction, reflections, and material weight. Every image I deliver is hand finished in Photoshop, which is why the work doesn't have that look. BRAND IMAGERY & VISUAL SYSTEMS This is where I add the most value. I build complete image sets for brands and startups website heroes, product scenes, lifestyle imagery, launch and social assets generated and finished to one consistent visual language. One art direction, held across every asset. Same lighting, same palette, same materials, same mood, whether it's ten images or a hundred. Founders come to me when they have a product and no photoshoot budget, and leave with a full library that looks like a brand rather than a folder of AI outputs WHERE I DO MY BEST WORK Startups & DTC launches — a brand's entire image library built before the product ever meets a camera, website heroes, animations Furniture & home decor — sofas, lighting, decor placed into lifestyle scenes with perspective, contact shadows, and material weight that make a composite disappear. Beauty & skincare — glass, liquid, gloss, and skin retouched so texture survives. No plastic. Apparel & accessories — recolors, fabric swaps, logo and sleeve corrections, a full variant set pulled from one shot. E-commerce catalogs — 200 SKUs that look like they came from the same afternoon and the same photographer. Also strong on jewellery, packaging, and agency overflow work that comes back client ready. WHAT I HANDLE • Brand image systems and consistent visual styling • Website, landing page, and campaign imagery • Complex photo manipulation and scene building • Product placement into lifestyle environments • High-end retouching frequency separation, dodge & burn, natural skin • Realistic color and material replacement • AI-generated product and lifestyle imagery, commercially usable • Upscaling • Brand LUTs, actions, and repeatable edit systems HOW IT WORKS Send me one image or just your product and a reference for the feel you want. I'll tell you straight what's possible, what it takes, and how long including the times the honest answer is a reshoot. Most single images come back within 24–48 hours. Batch, catalog and full brand sets get a schedule before we start. Revisions until it's right, layered files on request. My best results come from retainers and ongoing work. Once I've learned your shadow language, your color targets, and the note your team always sends back, turnaround drops and you stop having to check. TOOLS Every image finishes in Photoshop. Ahead of that: Nano Banana 2 and Seedream for scene building, Flux Kontext for controlled edits and variant sets, Midjourney for concept direction, Topaz for uprez. Reference locked generation is what keeps fifty imaes looking like one brand instead of fifty experiments. I reevaluate that stack every few months. Most of what was essential a year ago isn't, and hiring someone who hasn't noticed is how you end up with images that look like everyone else's. Salman