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Compare your wedding photo editing options side by side.

There is no single right way to handle wedding editing: you can do it yourself, send it out, or lean on an AI-assisted first pass. Each has a different cost in money, time, and control. Enter your own numbers and the calculator helps you compare them honestly.

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Three common paths, three different tradeoffs

Editing in-house gives you full control but costs your own hours, which are easy to undervalue. Outsourcing trades money for time but adds coordination and revision rounds. An AI-assisted first pass aims to reduce manual first-pass work, leaving you to refine rather than start from zero.

None of these is automatically best. The right choice depends on your gallery sizes, your hourly value, your turnaround pressure, and how much hands-on control you want over the final look.

What to weigh when you compare

Cost is only one axis. A fair comparison looks at the whole picture.

  • Your own per-image editing time and hourly rate
  • Outsourcing rates plus revision and review overhead
  • How much first-pass work an AI-assisted workflow could reduce
  • Control over consistency, style, and final adjustments
Example only: if in-house editing costs you 12 hours per wedding at your rate, that is the figure to compare against an outsourcing quote or an AI-assisted workflow. Replace with your own numbers. Results are estimates based on your inputs, and this site guarantees no quality, delivery time, client satisfaction, bookings, revenue, or savings.
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Common questions

Will this tell me which option is best?
No. It helps you compare options using your own numbers so you can identify bottlenecks and find which workflow may fit. The decision stays yours.
Does AI-assisted editing mean replacing my editors?
No. The framing here is about reducing manual first-pass work, not removing people. Many studios use an AI-assisted first pass and still finish by hand for style and consistency.
Can I compare more than one alternative at once?
Yes. Run your in-house cost first, then re-run the estimate with outsourcing rates or an AI-assisted first-pass assumption to see the gap between each path.
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