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Examples Unretouched results

Before and after,
warts and all.

Six photos straight from the edit: no hand retouching, no cherry-picked second tries. Each lists what changed besides light and colour — including one result our change check exists to stop.

Drag across a photo to compare. The first was a real photo lab order; the rest are openly licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons, edited with the same model and instructions.

Original: Phone photo at night under warm bulbs: everything leans orange and the corners fall into shadow. A hotel bedroom featuring a large bed with a wood headboard, white linens, two lit nightstands, and a cozy armchair.

01 Stay

Hotel bedroom after dark

Phone photo at night under warm bulbs: everything leans orange and the corners fall into shadow.

Fixed

  • White balance: sheets and lampshades back to white
  • Shadows lifted under the bed and nightstands
  • Night view through the window kept as it was

Changed besides light and colour Small change found

  • Digital clock display altered (low severity)

A low-severity change still ships, with the change listed on the result page, so you decide before you post.

Found by the automatic change check on the live order.

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A hotel bedroom featuring a large bed with a wood headboard, white linens, two lit nightstands, and a cozy armchair.

Cut for

  • Airbnb: 2048 × 1365
Original: Mixed light from a bedside lamp and a window turns the white walls cream and the plum wall brown. Narrow single hotel room with a plum accent wall, a single bed with a white pillow, a wall-mounted TV and a magazine shelf.

Original by JIP, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Our edit is shared under the same licence.

02 Stay

Small single room

Mixed light from a bedside lamp and a window turns the white walls cream and the plum wall brown.

Fixed

  • Walls back to white, the accent wall back to plum
  • Even exposure from the door to the bed

Changed besides light and colour Small change found

  • Small print on the magazine covers is redrawn and no longer readable

Found by comparing both versions at full size.

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Narrow single hotel room with a plum accent wall, a single bed with a white pillow, a wall-mounted TV and a magazine shelf.

Original: Vanity bulbs push the lime walls towards yellow and grey out the white counter. Hotel bathroom with lime green walls, a long white vanity with one sink, a framed mirror under three lights, and a toilet.

Original by Ken Srail, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Edited by Nest & Pixel.

03 Stay

Hotel bathroom under vanity bulbs

Vanity bulbs push the lime walls towards yellow and grey out the white counter.

Fixed

  • Counter, sink and toilet neutral white
  • Wall colour kept lime, as it is in the room

Changed besides light and colour Nothing real changed

Nothing — same objects, same places.

Found by comparing both versions at full size.

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Hotel bathroom with lime green walls, a long white vanity with one sink, a framed mirror under three lights, and a toilet.

Cut for

  • Expedia / Hotels.com: 1536 × 1024
Original: Shooting into French doors: the room is dark and the windows are solid white. High-ceilinged living room with exposed brick, framed bird prints, a ceiling fan, a yellow sofa, a wooden desk and tall French doors.

Original by Corey Taratuta, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Edited by Nest & Pixel.

04 Stay

Living room against bright windows

Shooting into French doors: the room is dark and the windows are solid white.

Fixed

  • Room brightened, brick and wood floor back to their real colour
  • Ceiling fan and lamps balanced against the windows

Changed besides light and colour Would not ship

  • View through the French doors invented: trees, a house with blue shutters and a balcony railing that the original never showed

This is what the change check exists for. The windows in the original hold no detail, so the model made a view up. In the photo lab a change like this fails the check: the photo is run again, and if no honest version comes out you get the credit back. The real fix: shoot again with the exposure set on the window.

Found by comparing both versions at full size.

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High-ceilinged living room with exposed brick, framed bird prints, a ceiling fan, a yellow sofa, a wooden desk and tall French doors.

Cut for

  • Vrbo: 1448 × 1086
Original: Shot upwards from across the road: the walls lean in and the brick looks dull. Victorian red-brick seafront hotel with white trim, corner domes and a “Royal Hotel” sign under a clear blue sky.

Original by Elliott Brown, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Edited by Nest & Pixel.

05 Stay

Seafront hotel from the pavement

Shot upwards from across the road: the walls lean in and the brick looks dull.

Fixed

  • Lean of the side walls reduced
  • Brick, stone trim and sky back to clean, true colour

Changed besides light and colour Small change found

  • A “Food available” banner on the street-level railing became a picture of food

Small, but it is signage: the result page would list it, and you would decide whether to post it or run it again.

Found by comparing both versions at full size.

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Victorian red-brick seafront hotel with white trim, corner domes and a “Royal Hotel” sign under a clear blue sky.

Cut for

  • Google Business Profile: 960 × 720
Original: Overhead canteen light: greens look dull and the table glares. Yellow plate of rice topped with stir-fried greens, bean sprouts, broccoli and tofu, next to a bowl of soup.

Original by Mx. Granger, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Edited by Nest & Pixel.

06 Food

Restaurant plate for a delivery menu

Overhead canteen light: greens look dull and the table glares.

Fixed

  • Brighter, even light across the plate
  • Greens and peppers fresh but true to colour
  • Same portion, same garnish, same bowl

Changed besides light and colour Nothing real changed

Nothing — same objects, same places.

Found by comparing both versions at full size.

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Yellow plate of rice topped with stir-fried greens, bean sprouts, broccoli and tofu, next to a bowl of soup.

Cut for

  • Uber Eats: 1358 × 1086
  • DoorDash: 1448 × 815

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Photo lab: fixes light, colour and straight lines, lists anything that changed, writes the alt text and cuts every platform size. The first photo is free, without a watermark.

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