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retouch

[ree-tuhch, ree-tuhch, ree-tuhch] / riˈtʌtʃ, ˈriˌtʌtʃ, riˈtʌtʃ /


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Roe & Company in Toronto to retouch photos of pots and pans for its catalogs.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

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

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

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

D. Smillie informs me—is used for retouches by the engravers of the company, is applied with the brush, is a very quick dryer, tough, and resists acid perfectly.

From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne

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

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




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