image retouching
Digital picture enhancement
Image retouching is the process of altering a photograph to improve its appearance or correct flaws.
This typically involves removing blemishes, adjusting colors, smoothing skin, or eliminating unwanted elements from the composition.
The practice ranges from subtle corrections like fixing red-eye to extensive manipulation that significantly changes how subjects appear.
The magazine's image retouching made the model look impossibly flawless.
Professional retouching is standard in advertising, fashion photography, and portraiture.
- PhotoshopProfessional graphics manipulation program
- portrait photographyImages focused on faces
- skin smoothingLessening facial texture irregularities
- color gradingAltering image tones digitally
- GIMPFree image manipulation software
cloning · product photography · authenticity · masking · healing brush · layers · filters · brushes · magazine covers · before-and-after · photo manipulation · blemish removal · wrinkle reduction · red eye removal · airbrushing · compositing · beauty standards
image retouchingunairbrushed
Not digitally perfected
au naturel · snapshot · unphotoshopped · found footage · unfiltered
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