touching up
Making small fixes
Touching up is making minor improvements or repairs to something's appearance.
You touch up paint to cover small chips, touch up makeup before a photo, or touch up a document before submitting it.
The phrase can also refer to inappropriate physical contact, especially groping: He was fired for touching up coworkers.
- photo editingAltering digital images
- refinishApply new surface coating
- paint brushTool for applying pigment
- repaintApply new color over old
- correctingMaking accurate again
adjusting · detailing · finishing touches · fix · airbrushing · beautifying · patching · quick fix · freshening · refinement · revise · cover · enhance · blending · perfecting · sprucing · brush · edit
- restorationrestoration, repair, renovation, rebuilding, refurbishment
- sprucing upbeautifying, freshening, freshening up, grooming, primping
- Beautifyingmakeover, decoration, adornment, embellishment, beautification
- adjustingtuning, readjusting, calibrating, tweaking, modifying
- painting techniquesimpasto, glazing, dry brushing, drybrush, stippling
touching upoverhauling
Comprehensive repair or renovation
gutting · complete overhaul · rebuilding · reconstructing · renovating
touching updefacing
Spoiling an appearance
damaging · marring · vandalizing · ruining · scratching
touch, untouched, untouchable, touch up, retouch, retouched, touch-up, touched up