M. Mercedes M.
High-End Photo Retoucher | Photoshop & Lightroom Expert | Compositing
✅ I edit images with one goal in mind: to make them look polished, believable and aligned with your vision. I’m a Top Rated photo retoucher with 10+ years of experience working with Photoshop, Lightroom and commercial image editing. I help photographers, brands, agencies and creative teams improve their images while keeping them natural, consistent and true to the original idea. My goal is simple: to make your images look better without making them look over-edited. I work on clean details, natural skin texture, balanced color, realistic light and a consistent look across the full set. Whether it’s a single hero image, a product batch, a fashion campaign, a wedding gallery or a more creative composite, I always try to keep the final result refined but realistic. What I can help you with: ⭐️ High-end beauty, fashion and portrait retouching ⭐️ Natural skin retouching with preserved texture ⭐️ Product photo editing for e-commerce, Amazon, Shopify and campaigns ⭐️ Complex compositing, photo montage and realistic image manipulation ⭐️ Matte painting, background extension and image reconstruction ⭐️ Key art and poster-style image finishing ⭐️ Lightroom culling, color grading and batch editing for weddings and events ⭐️ Color correction, light/shadow refinement and print-ready finishing ⭐️ AI image cleanup, artifact correction and realism enhancement ⭐️ AI-assisted Photoshop workflows when they can help the process My background combines professional photo retouching, visual art and commercial image editing. I’ve worked with e-commerce, fashion, advertising, product, portrait and creative projects where images need to be clean, coherent and ready for publication. I mainly work with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. I can work fully manually, and I also use AI-assisted tools when they genuinely help with tasks like cleanup, background extension, reconstruction, concept development or improving realism. Clients usually come to me when they need someone reliable, detail-oriented and able to keep a high standard across one image or a complete set. Available for one-time projects, urgent edits and long-term collaborations. If your project needs clean, thoughtful and high-quality image editing, 📩 let’s chat! 📩 I’d be happy to hear more about what you’re working on.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $3.2k
Billed in all: $8,877$8.9k
$357 in the last 6 months
Across 10 contracts
Across 27 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 9% in Digital Painting
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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