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The sponge tool, on the other hand, works to help retouch images by saturating or desaturating color, allowing users to fine-tune how vibrant their images and art look.

From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2021

“At one point, I was the photographer. I know how to retouch product too.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

However, there are some instances where it might be OK to retouch a school photo, Alvord added.

From Fox News ● Nov. 2, 2021

“When you want to retouch the painting, you must artificially age the pigment,” De Winter said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2019

You could retouch the paint on the bathroom windowsill, and after you do it you could warn me so that I don’t put my watch on it.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

There are retouches to the original tale, updates to conform to modern sensibilities and a few winking asides to the audience, but the basic recipe of a whodunit spoof is preserved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015

On Saturday night, after everyone goes to bed, Mom steals into the kitchen under cover of night and rolls the Hostess Ding-Dong away from the door of the Empty Tomb Cake, then retouches the frosting.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2013

Following Mass, Francis will remove seals on papal apartments so that crews can do small retouches before the new pope moves in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

It is just possible that we see, in “Kidnapped,” more signs of determined labour, more evidence of touches and retouches, than in “Rob Roy.”

From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

Water can be used to dampen and repose the body and paint can be removed or retouched.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

He also found scrapers and other retouched pieces known as Mousterian stone artifacts that suggested the cave had been used by Neanderthals.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

Even in studies in which participants knew the photos they were shown on Instagram were retouched and reshaped, adolescent girls still felt worse about their bodies after viewing them.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

Norway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched.

From BBC ● May 14, 2023

He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"There are ways to use AI that is non-invasive to the creative ecosystem and I see no problem with that," she said, adding this could involve things like retouching, small edits or making mood boards.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

His large-scale, photorealistic paintings render L.A.’s visual language through tools like commercial photo retouching, Hollywood set painting and manual sign painting traditions, creating a unique commentary on image making and the city’s systems of communication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

Some kinds of retouching require old-school edits from other Adobe software like Lightroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

The proud grandmother revealed that she told magazine staffers she did not want retouching done on her SI Swimsuit photos — even dishing that she had a cheeseburger the day before her shoot.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

It startled Ifemelu, how much a relaxer retouching cost at Aunty Uju’s hair salon; the haughty hairdressers sized up each customer, eyes swinging from head to shoes, to decide how much attention she was worth.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie