About
A quiet studio in North London.
I'm Naveed Ahmed. I run Perfect Shape Expert Ltd from a small studio on Green Lanes, and I've spent the last decade retouching portraits for photographers, agencies and companies across the UK and Europe.
Practice
One person. One craft.
This isn't an agency. When you email pshape.co.uk, I reply. When your files land in the studio, I edit them. That's the whole point — a single, consistent pair of eyes on every portrait, from a corporate headshot for a partner in Mayfair to the thousandth passport photo of a Tuesday afternoon.
I started as a graphic designer, drifted into photography editing when a friend needed a hand on a wedding job, and never really came back. Portraits taught me patience. Passport photos taught me speed. Corporate work taught me consistency. These days I mostly do all three at once.
I work mostly with Swedish photography editing. Alongside that I take on selected UK commissions: studio retouching for photographers who don't want to spend their evenings in Photoshop, and team photography for companies that want their people to look like a team.
10+
Years retouching
120k+
Portraits edited
1
Studio, one person
24h
Typical reply time
Tools of the trade
The kit, briefly.
Adobe Photoshop
The desk. Frequency separation, dodge & burn, everything begins here.
Capture One
For colour work and raw batch processing on high-volume studio jobs.
Wacom Intuos Pro
Ten years and counting on the same tablet.
Calibrated Eizo CG
Because if the monitor lies, everything else does too.