Estimate the real cost of editing your wedding photos.
Editing a full wedding gallery eats hours you rarely log, and those hours have a real dollar value. Put in your own per-image time and your own hourly rate, and the calculator turns your editing load into a number you can actually plan around.
Estimate it with the calculator
All fields estimate-onlyWhat goes into the cost of editing a wedding
Wedding editing is not one task, it is a stack of them: culling the take, first-pass adjustments, color correction, keeping a look consistent across the whole set, then exporting and handling revisions. Each layer adds minutes per image, and a single wedding can run into the thousands of frames.
The calculator does not assume any of your numbers. You tell it how many images you edit, how long each step takes you, and what your time is worth, and it estimates the total so you can see where the hours and the money are going.
Why per-image time matters more than gut feel
Most photographers underestimate editing because the work happens in small chunks spread across late nights. A few extra seconds per image is invisible in the moment and enormous across a full gallery.
- Multiply your real per-image time by your true gallery size
- Apply your own hourly rate instead of a generic figure
- See first-pass, color, and export costs separately
- Compare that total against outsourcing or AI-assisted first-pass options
Common questions
Does this tell me what to charge clients?
Do I need to know exact numbers to start?
Can it tell me whether to outsource or use AI-assisted editing?
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