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
"To actually retouch and change a child’s features, you’re basically saying you’re not good enough the way you are, so I’m going to pay to have you made better," Greene said.
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
“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
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
In either case, however, all the retouches must be executed by irregular stippling, so that they may harmonize with the result of the first biting.
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
The models look “so retouched that they seem more like A.I.-generated bots than actual people,” Vanessa Friedman, The Times’s chief fashion critic, writes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 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
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
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
