retouch
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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
Greene told Fox News that her daughter’s school picture hadn’t even been taken yet when she was given the option to retouch the photo.
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
They would rewrite history books, or retouch photographs, if they showed uncomfortable truths about the past.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 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
To this day, when the pool is drained, the hotel retouches the lines, refreshing Hockney’s iconic blue half-moon marks every year or so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
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
Partial Retouches.—Patching.—For partial retouches and for patching the stopping-out varnish is also used, but in a simpler and more expeditious way.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
This work was done by Gardena-based company KC Restoration, which retouched and treated each damaged or cracked tile with the type of care and attention to detail used by painting conservators, Denk said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
Someone had retouched the photo and painted Henrietta’s face an unnatural yellow.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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 BBC's Emma Vardy said she was retouching her makeup for some final Oscars filming when the quake struck.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
When the ball got past Joey Votto, Rocchio took off for second without retouching first.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
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
