retouch
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In her statement, the 42-year-old princess chalked up the alteration to a photographer’s innocent desire to retouch the image.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
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
But he didn’t retouch second on his way back, leading to a double play.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
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
She examines it, retouches it, and notices that that upper lip is remarkably similar to the Mona Lisa.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2021
Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
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
But they only are the true epitaphs which Old Mortality retouches.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
The painting had to be retouched on game day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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
