• PhotoSerge

PhotoSerge

Overview

PhotoSerge has a rating of 2.98 stars from 48 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. PhotoSerge ranks 43rd among Photo Editing Software sites.

  • Service
    3
  • Value
    3
  • Shipping
    2
  • Returns
    2
  • Quality
    3
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • Serge Ramelli and team, you guys are the best with exceptional products but most importantly brilliant customer service.

Critical highlights

  • I have purchased several courses from this website.
How would you rate PhotoSerge?
Top Positive Review

“Exceptional 5 Star Customer Service”

Kim B.
10/13/20

Recently I accidentally purchased two products that I had already purchased from Serge a long time ago. When I discovered my error and let them know, I had my money refunded without any fuss. Serge Ramelli and team, you guys are the best with exceptional products but most importantly brilliant customer service. Really appreciated guys. Regards Kim Borg Ozwide Photography Australia

Top Critical Review

“Non-existent after-sales service. Refund impossible”

julien G.
1/18/23

I am French speaking, I bought presets on photoserge.com, when I realized that there is a site in French with tutorials on the presets in French I sent an email to the support of his site in dot com to access the French version of his site given my bad English or reimburse me so that I make my purchase on his site in French, so far no response to my request. Does not provide after-sales service, no response, no refund despite its slogan at the time of purchase, flee Check out this site

Reviews (48)

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Thumbnail of user kimb1118
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
October 13th, 2020

Recently I accidentally purchased two products that I had already purchased from Serge a long time ago. When I discovered my error and let them know, I had my money refunded without any fuss. Serge Ramelli and team, you guys are the best with exceptional products but most importantly brilliant customer service. Really appreciated guys.
Regards
Kim Borg
Ozwide Photography Australia

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Thank you so so much! Very happy to hear that;-) Enjoy your course!

Thumbnail of user declano6
1 review
3 helpful votes
July 12th, 2020

I recently made a small purchase from this site and when I thought I had finished with PayPal it returned me to my cart. I completed this again, thinking I had missed something, only to find I had been billed twice. They completely ignored my three emails and when I complained to PayPal they thought it was ok for them to do this. As a result, I will no longer do business with either Serge Ramelti or PayPal. This form of fraud, though minimal, should not be allowed. Are there any platforms where these companies can be exposed?

Thumbnail of user thomasw1306
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 30th, 2020

I found Serge thru his Lightroom tutorial on YT ِand it was marvelous to get this knowledge. In the years Serge sent me a lot of emails but it is the only newsletter, which I didn't erase. At this point, I have to say there is a lot of great knowledge that Serge shares with us. I bought one of his bundle recently, and there was an issue with the library. Tried to contact thru form on-site, then by email, and then everything was solved. I recommend that.

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Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Awesome Thomas, so glad that we were able to serve you well and that you are happy with our services! Wishing you the best in your adventure;-)

Thumbnail of user kevinw884
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 18th, 2020

I've been using serge's courses for a couple of years now, some free courses and some that I've purchased. I've found the courses very helpful and has not only have they dramatically improved my post processing skills but also helped give plenty of ideas and new skills when out shooting photos. Any occasional issues have always been sorted quickly by Patrik in the support team.

Thumbnail of user brianb1969
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 8th, 2020

I have bought several items from Serge and his team over the years, but on the last occasion, I got it completely wrong and had to finish up contacting the team. Patrik, was on the case, a complete refund with 24 hours, no questions asked. Very reassuring. Thank you, Paris.:-) Regards, Brian (Bateman)

Thumbnail of user warrenh113
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 22nd, 2020

Have bought a lot to courses from Surge in the past but like others it seems this time I got nothing but a receipt. I emailed and initially got great response from Patrik. After some further correspondence he pasted my issue on to the 'It' manager and that's were it all stoped
Emailed Patrik again after a few weeks and got an instant refund so at leased he is doing his job.
Never in the past 5/6 years have I had a problem with this site so conclude it was a bad day.

Thumbnail of user tint16
1 review
2 helpful votes
August 5th, 2020

So much publicity on discount to get you to purchase. Too good a deal but when its paid for the products was not accessibility. It simply says, poor internet connection. Try again. Try it we may, for as many, it simply said... wrong password.! Dodgy business.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Hello Tin, it does sound really weird, sorry you had to go through that. We have not experienced that before. Did you contact our support team to fix the issue?
Maybe tried another browser? In any case I would love for your to contact this email: support@photoserge.com to fully handle your issue or refund you if necessary. Thank you.

Thumbnail of user toml587
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 4th, 2020

I recently bought some presets and then realised I had used the wrong email for my account. I sent a message off to Support and Patrick came back almost straight away and had fixed the problem.
Serge and his team are dedicated to their photography passion and service to clients.

So, if you want good service and inspirational photography tutorials your in the right place.

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Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Nice! So glad we made it easy for you and you are right we really want to help people for their passion! Thank you so much for the nice review, it means a lot for us!

Thumbnail of user billf312
1 review
5 helpful votes
April 16th, 2020

I asked for my refund as I find his presets totally useless... but get absolutely not response from him...

Thumbnail of user rajeshs89
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
September 17th, 2020

Hi,

I can very confidentially say that no doubt Serge Remelli's tutorials have changed the quality of photographs I edit.the outcome is amazing.

Also thanks to Serge for sharing such beautiful tutorials at nominal prices. It does really help passionate photographers and adds quality to the next level.

You get to know once you try it out

Thanks a lot SergeI mean it.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

That's awesome thank you so much, this means a lot!;-)

Thumbnail of user robertg1798
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 1st, 2020

Personally, I've never had any issues with double billing or access to courses as others have said. I've found the courses to be excellent, and indeed, Serge has a very unique talent in suggesting how to make your photo's really pop vs other courses I've purchased. Yes, there are lots of courses out there, lots of free youtube courses also. But between Serge's youtube videos and his courses I've learned a lot and learned how to put pizazz into some of my photo's.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Nice Robert! So happy to hear that you had a great experience with us! We are excited to have you part of our customers and to see your photos;-)

Thumbnail of user susand1462
1 review
4 helpful votes
March 30th, 2021

THey promised some software after watching their video. (It was painful because there was a very loud guy in a blue shirt.

The promised items never came. I wrote about 20 emails asking about this, and they ignored every email.

Tip for consumers:
don't use it It is all a lie

Products used:
they never sent anything. It was a scam

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Thumbnail of user larsr17
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 7th, 2020

Serge has an excellent workflow in Lightroom and photoshop that make you go from taking pictures to creating images. The courses are so easy to follow and you even get his raw files so you can follow along the course and creating images with the best coach there is.
I would recommend every one who wants to take there photography to the next level to let Serge guide you so you can make world class images from your own pictures.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Thank you so much, so happy you enjoyed the courses! ;)

Thumbnail of user rudolfz2
5 reviews
6 helpful votes
January 19th, 2022

Serge was disturbing me with so many sales newsletters... I ignored all of them. And then I went inside of his FB group and wanted to present my photo, and he didn't care at all... On Facebook, I posted this picture and the people loved that picture... unfairness. Serge said even my photo is underexposed, it was not exposed but he did underexpose it so that my whole photo was very dark... Then I asked the famous Photograph Joel Sartore (my previous mentor) afterwards, what he thinks about my picture: Looks very nice. Good moment, interesting light.
Great job.
Keep going!
What you do think about Serge Ramelli.

Tip for consumers:
I bought quite a lot from Serge. His good ideas are to manipulate the photos with Lightroom and to use his presets. My idea was, when I took this picture, how would it be if I use big flashlights with modifier to get even better results than Serge... And I got.. Then he got furious, and my previous mentor the famous Joel Sartore liked my photo... I recommend get from "The Great Courses" the Photography courses of the National Geographic Photographs... You will never find any better courses!

Thumbnail of user tracyh465
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 31st, 2020

Over the years I have purchased many classes from PhotoSerge and recently focused on Lightroom and Photoshop. My experience has always been amazing from both the photography training perspective and from the customer service perspective. My post-processing has improved drastically in literally days! Patrik, on the support team, has been incredibly helpful as I have made some "out of the box" requests. Frankly, I spend my hard earned money based on customer experience. My experience with PhotoSerge has been outstanding!

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Hello Tracy, thank you so very much for the kind words and we are so very happy that everything went well and that you were able to enjoy our courses without any glitches! Wishing you the best in your progress for your photography;-)

Thumbnail of user clarkk39
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 19th, 2020

I really enjoyed the training for replacing the sky. Very clear with lots of examples. I would recommend to everyone.

Thumbnail of user abhishekc26
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 23rd, 2020

I have been following Serge for quite sometime now and i jus love his work... i m proud to learn new and innovative techniques in photography and post processing... i have an awesome teacher from whom i m learning my post processing and dats Serge Ramelli Siri always use his techniques and tips in post processing and have purchased most of his bundles which are amazing value for money... would recommend Serge to d world of photographers for post editing learnings

Thumbnail of user stevep739
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 21st, 2020

I recently downloaded Serge's 2020 Toolbox and purchased his associated Lightroom presets. Then I purchased his Fine Arts training series. I purchased the presets as part of this series not realizing they were the same Lightroom presets as the first set. I sent a request to customer service on the weekend and on Monday had a reply that my reimbursement was taken care of. Now that's fast after sales service. Perhaps marketing could make it clearer on the website to identify the presets better.

As a side note, I have learned many new tricks and techniques watching Serge's training programs using Lightroom, Photoshop, and Aurora HDR - all software that I use. I would never pay over $400 USD for this (I'm Canadian, so the cost would be well over $600 CDN for me). But the cost of $27 USD was spot on and I could not resist.

Thanks to the team at PhotoSerge. Keep up the great work.

FYI... I get a good chuckle when Serge applies his "American" accent during his training!

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

That's awesome Steve, thank you very much for the honest and nice feedback so glad you enjoy the content;-)

Thumbnail of user johnn1241
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 4th, 2020

I Paid with PayPal and did not complete my order correctly. I did have and account from a previous order which improved my knowledge heaps. As only PayPal Email arrived I realised that my order had messed up, Went to the site and explained the situation and gave details of payment, Fixed in less than 24 hours, great service, Very Happy,

Thumbnail of user terrys700
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 31st, 2020

Well as a beginner of Lightroom and Photoshop and like most people bought and download free presets, brushes, actions etc but even though I'm learning to use both of the above programs I prefer serge. Presets etc. And along with the videos you soon start progressing
Just my view try it and see what you think
Terry

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Nice Terry, that's a really nice feedback and thank you for sharing it, it is so very important for us that each customer get and impeccable service and can enjoy our content without any problems!

Thumbnail of user catherinep278
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 29th, 2020

I purchased a set of LR tutorial with presets, brush presets and source files. The tutorials were detailed and pointed and the presets made such a difference in my photography. I did run across one problem and sent an email to photoserge. Within 48 hours I had the response I needed, in the detail I required, to carry on! Thank you!

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Awesome, so glad your problem was fixed and you are enjoying your course! Thank you very much for the nice feedback;-)

Thumbnail of user patricf2
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 13th, 2020

These guys are awesome. Asked about a product-related matter and they fixed it in no time. Really happy and satisfied.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Yeah! Awesome thank you so much for the nice feedback;-)

Thumbnail of user kritat
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 17th, 2020

PhotoSerge not only teaches you the skills to make your photos a chef-d'oeuvre but also brings out the skills in you that allow you to create things from your own imagination which is a much more important point.
https://www.instagram.com/krita.photos/?hl=en

Thumbnail of user cr424
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 29th, 2020

I've bought a few presets / Brush sets from Serge over the years and have never been let down. They are a useful starting point if you haven't got hours to sit in Lightroom.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Nice! So glad you like our content, thank you very much, very happy to hear;-)

Thumbnail of user simonb257
1 review
2 helpful votes
October 25th, 2020

Bought some brushes, have been inundated with spam numerous times a day. Have tried unsubscribing, yet they continue.

Thumbnail of user serger17
Photo S. – PhotoSerge Rep

Very sorry about that, please contact our support team and they will make sure to unsubscribe you.
support@photoserge.com

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