Cody H.
Photo Editor & Retoucher | Real Estate, E-Commerce & Sports
⭐ US-based photo editor | 1M+ photos hand-edited | 24-hour turnaround I'm Cody Hebert, founder of Vetica and former Photography Retouching Manager at Harbor Photography. My team and I edit 500+ photos a week for studios, e-commerce brands, and real estate photographers worldwide — 1,000,000+ photos delivered with a 99.9% first-pass approval rate. Every image is edited by hand in Photoshop and Lightroom. No AI shortcuts, no batch presets — matched to your style and delivered in 24 hours, whether it's 10 images or 1,000. WHAT I EDIT • Real Estate & Interiors — HDR blending, sky replacement, virtual twilight, window pulls, vertical correction • E-Commerce & Product — background removal, ghost mannequin, drop shadows, color-variant recoloring (Amazon, Shopify & Magento spec) • Sports — color grading, composites, background cleanup, uniform consistency across full galleries • Jewelry — dust & scratch removal, metal luster, gemstone clarity • Portraits — frequency separation, natural skin retouching, blemish removal WHY CLIENTS STAY • You work directly with me — no ticket queues, no hand-offs. I reply personally, usually within the hour • Unlimited revisions until it's right • The same standard on image 1 as on image 1,000 Clients include Harbor Photography, Tumble Rugs, EnjoyMFG, Chrono24, and Airframes Alaska. Send me a test batch and judge the work yourself — most clients approve on the first pass.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $2.1k
Billed in all: $51,190$51k
$714 in the last 6 months
Across 45 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 18% in Photo Editing
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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