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Editing Factory and the work a shopper never sees
A red hat, a disappearing background, and the unglamorous business of getting a product ready to sell. Editing Factory Limited built its pitch around image editing - then offered to help run the shop, too.
Clipping Path Work House and the business of making things disappear
A car loses its garage. A shirt loses its mannequin. Inside the image-editing service that turns everyday photographs into merchandise ready for the web.
Fast Clipping Path sells the work between the shoot and the sale
A ring needs its shine. A shirt needs its shape. Fast Clipping Path turns unfinished product photographs into store-ready images, with hand editing from $0.25 and a shelf of free browser tools.
Proactive Media put the night shift on another continent
California conversations. Bangladesh production. Proactive Media built its image-editing business around a simple proposition: the work can keep moving after the client goes home.
GIMP costs nothing. Keeping it free takes work.
The image editor born at Berkeley still lets anyone retouch, paint and build without a subscription. Behind the free download is a very human operation: volunteer developers, artist patrons and decades of unfinished business.