Photo Editing Company

What Photo Editing Company does

Photo Editing Company (PEC) is a privately held, founder-led photo editing and retouching service provider headquartered in Cebu, Philippines. Founded in 2017 and operating from the Rafael IT Building, the company employs 15+ in-house photo editors and senior graphic artists using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom to deliver a broad suite of human-powered post-production services, including clipping path, background removal, color correction, image masking, jewelry retouching, portrait retouching, newborn, fashion, wedding, real estate, and AI-image correction workflows. The company also operates an in-house jewelry photography studio that handles physical product shoots at 300 DPI, and has expanded into adjacent video editing and social media management services.

PEC serves a horizontal mix of customer segments, with e-commerce businesses (including marketplace sellers on Amazon, eBay, Lazada, Shopify) and jewelry brands as primary targets, alongside photographers, studios, marketing agencies, AI companies, real estate professionals, and wedding photographers. The company claims reach across 30+ countries including the USA, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Japan, Australia, and the UAE.

The business model is a Pay-As-You-Go transaction model with fixed/flat per-image pricing and no subscription or credit minimums, supported by a sales-led GTM motion executed through the company website (photoeditingcompany.com), direct contact forms, phone outreach, WeTransfer file exchange, and a content marketing engine across blog, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. The company emphasizes in-house execution (no subcontracting to third parties), 24/7 availability, and a 12-24 hour rush turnaround as core differentiators. No external funding, parent company, or institutional investor involvement is disclosed in the available data.

Name

Photo Editing Company

Legal name

Photo Editing Company

Website

https://photoeditingcompany.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Photo Editing Company is a Cebu, Philippines-based BPO that delivers Photoshop-based photo retouching services (clipping path, background removal, jewelry, e-commerce, AI-image correction) to businesses and individuals across 30+ countries via a Pay-As-You-Go model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Photo Editing Services

NAICS

Photographic Services (54192), Commercial Photography (541922)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Photography & Photo Production (BPAFAIAF)

Keywords

• Photo editing services
• Image retouching
• Ecommerce photo editing
• Clipping path services
• Background removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Cebu

HQ country

Philippines

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Photo Editing Services: Pay-As-You-Go model where customers pay only for the images they need editing; no credit buying or monthly subscriptions required. Also offers fixed/flat pricing for all tasks ensuring transparency and predictability in costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Photo Editing Company provides outsourced photo editing and retouching services for ecommerce sellers, jewelers, real estate photographers, agencies, AI companies, and individual clients. Core offerings include ecommerce product photo editing, jewelry photo retouching, real estate photo enhancement, AI image editing, clipping path, background removal, image masking, shadow creation, color correction, photo manipulation, and photo restoration, delivered by a 15+ editor team using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom with 24/7 availability.

Product overview

Photo Editing Company is a professional photo editing and retouching service provider based in Cebu, Philippines, offering a comprehensive suite of human-powered editing services delivered by 15+ skilled photo editors and senior graphic artists. Their service portfolio centers on core Photoshop-based editing capabilities (clipping path, background removal, color correction, image masking) as specialized vertical offerings for Jewelry Photo Editing, AI Image Editing, E-commerce Photo Editing (including Amazon-specific services), Portrait Photo Editing, Newborn Photo Editing, Real Estate Photo Editing, Fashion Photo Editing, and Wedding Photo Editing. Additional services include Model/Corporate/Food/Pet photo editing, photo effects, ghost mannequin, video editing, and social media management. They also operate an in-house jewelry photography studio for physical product shoots. The company primarily serves e-commerce businesses, photographers, studios, agencies, and AI companies across 30+ countries using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom as their primary tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ecommerce Photo Editing Outsourced product photo editing and retouching for ecommerce platforms and online retailers, including marketplace-ready edits, white-background standardization, color correction, and batch retouching across large catalogs.
• Jewelry Photo Editing Specialized photo retouching for jewelry sellers covering metal finishing, stone clarity, reflection cleanup, sparkle enhancement, and white-background preparation for online listings.
• Real Estate Photo Editing Real estate photo enhancement service for photographers, agencies, and property listing portals, including HDR blending, exposure correction, sky replacement, and listing-ready image preparation.
• AI Image Editing AI-assisted image editing for AI and computer-vision companies requiring segmented, cleaned, or annotated training images for machine learning datasets.
• Photo Retouching Services General outsourced photo retouching covering image masking, background removal, shadow creation, color correction, clipping path, photo manipulation, and photo restoration for photographers and personal photo customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Services available 24/7 with rush delivery turnaround of 12-24 hours
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Invensis: BPO firm offering image editing, clipping path, and photo retouching services — comparable as a multi-service photo post-production provider with offshore delivery model.
• Pixelz: Specialized ecommerce photo editing and retouching service for product imagery, with marketplace-compliance workflows for major platforms — directly comparable in service scope, customer base, and delivery model to Photo Editing Company.
• Flatworld Solutions: BPO provider offering photo editing, retouching, and image processing as a managed service to global clients — directly comparable as a multi-vertical photo post-production outsourcer.
• FixThePhoto: Outsourced photo retouching and editing service offering portrait, wedding, real estate, and product retouching to a global customer base — directly comparable in vertical coverage and post-production outsourcing model.
• Clipping Path India: India-based clipping path, background removal, and image masking service provider — directly comparable on core clipping-path and masking offerings and BPO-style pricing model.
• SunTec India: India-based data and image processing BPO with photo editing, real estate image enhancement, and product photo retouching offerings — directly comparable service portfolio.

Broad incumbents

• Canva: Broad design and image-editing platform with built-in background removal and editing features — adjacent incumbent whose self-serve capabilities address a portion of the same SMB customer base.
• Adobe: Maker of Photoshop and Lightroom — the core tools on which the company's services depend — and a broad incumbent with rapidly expanding generative AI features that automate the very services Photo Editing Company sells.

Emerging players

• PhotoRoom: AI-powered background removal and product photo editing platform — a partial-overlap emerging player whose automation trajectory represents both an addressable market and a substitution threat to manual editing services.

Others

• Fiverr: Freelance marketplace where individual photo editors offer clipping path, retouching, and background removal services — competes for the same buyer demand via a fundamentally different (marketplace) delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@photoeditingcompany
• Facebookfacebook.com/194705770667
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/photo-editing-company
• Instagraminstagram.com/photoeditcompany
• Xx.com/PhotoEditingInc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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