Removing unwanted guests from wedding photos. As a wedding photo editor, this retouch service is regularly requested.
I know I have written a post on unwanted wedding guests before. But this past December I retouched a wedding album, and had to remove the bridesmaid of honour.
While removing unwanted guests from wedding photos, I alway wonder what had happened to read such vitriol from the bride.
On this set of photos, I wondered if it was it it a comment the bridesmaid had said during the wedding or on social media, did she get incredibly drunk and spoil the day or was she caught in a compromising situation with the groom?
Obviously I would never ask the bride, nor would I share the photos. The example wedding retouch photo I have created for this blog post came from Unsplash, which is an amazing photo library. You can download and use the photos for free, only requiring that you mention the photographer.
My client was so obsessed about removing every trace of the girl. There was one image where all you could see of the offending bridesmaid was her hand, she insisted that I completely edit it out. After hours of retouching and cloning out the offending guest, I submitted the photos to her for review.
I was pleasantly surprised by her reaction.
“Hi Chris, Thank you so much! I really like the photos, please tell me how much I shall pay you and how can I pay?”
Nothing gives me more pleasure than transforming unhappy memories into ones that will be forever treasured!
This is a video of my wedding photo retouching, removing unwanted guests from wedding photos, this was to show the process.
If you are considering sending me your wedding photos to have a guest edited out, I always ask my clients to send as many photos. The reason being is I need parts from other similar photos to fill the parts that I removed from the edited photo. This consists of missing background items – church, trees wall etc, or it could be a part of a person the the unwanted guest was blocking by standing partly in front of them.
Get in touch if you have any wedding photo enquiries, I will create the memories you are going to treasure!
