third party retouch solutions?

[Peter Blake]

I am talking about third parties usually in another country. apparently one sends ones files to them and they retouch as necessary and return them. I am not that busy at the moment that I need to use them but things are looking up.....

it just seems to me a good way of nicking a decent photographer's images. or am I being too harsh and cynical?

I have been approached by someone purporting to be based in Korea, one in India, one I think in the Middle East somewhere. the reason that none of these cold callers are based in the US or Europe? cost of living there?

I dunno

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I had a similar approach and assumed it was at the very least dodgy

 

[Hamish Gill]

Wouldn't touch them myself ... It takes a bit to much of the quality control out of your hands I think.
and if your that busy, just charge more money and employ a local ... That way you can work more closly with someone and benefit the local economy

 

[Pete Askew]

That sounds like good advice to me. There are, of course, some highly reputable re-touchers and finishers that people use (there are some based in London). You will pay a real premium for them and I suspect they are used when the job is complex or demands a certain look in the same way that certain printers were, and still are, used. But for day-to-day editing I would keep it local and Hamish's suggestion makes more sense to me.