Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To add new details or touches to for correction or improvement.
- intransitive verb To improve or change (a photographic negative or print), as by adding details or removing flaws.
- intransitive verb To color (recent growth of hair) to match hair that was tinted, dyed, or bleached at an earlier date.
- intransitive verb Archaeology To modify (a flaked stone tool) by secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
- intransitive verb To give or make retouches.
- noun The act, process, or an instance of retouching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To touch or touch up again; improve by new touches; revise; specifically, in the fine arts, to improve, as a painting, by new touches; go over a second time, as a work of art, in order to restore or strengthen a faded part, make additions, or remove blemishes, for its general improvement.
- noun A repeated touch; an additional touch given in revision; specifically, in the fine arts, additional work done on that which might previonsly have been regarded as finished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fine Arts) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
- transitive verb To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise.
- transitive verb (Photog.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
improve something (especially aphotograph ), byadding orcorrecting details, or byremoving flaws. - verb transitive To
colour theroots ofhair to match hair previously coloured. - verb archaeology To
modify aflint tool by making secondaryflaking along thecutting edge . - noun The act of retouching.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give retouches to (hair)
- verb alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance
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Examples
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And yet, the advertisers must have felt compelled otherwise to strongly "retouch"--airbrush is the industry term of the digital process of "photoshopping"--Roberts' and Turlington's photo shoots.
Forbes.com: News Nicole Kekeh 2011
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I admit I cheated--I had the most tremendous bags under my eyes this morning, which drove to me figure out how to use the "retouch" tool...
365 - 43: Krista Blossoms Fresca 2009
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In-camera "retouch" menu is great, permits significant image adjustment without resorting to the computer
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In-camera "retouch" menu is unique, permits significant image adjustment without resorting to the computer
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I mean, I could use the "retouch" feature in Picasa but, that would be frame by frame for all 136k+ frames.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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A: When M·A·C approached me, I knew I wouldn't have time to make a new painting but I thought I could "retouch" the one I had just finished for the show.
Bjooti - Sminkblogg 2009
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A big - no, a huge - draw was that Howell is a professional photographer who knows how to use lighting in flattering ways and discreetly "retouch" photos so that skin tones appear even and blemishes and other flaws disappear.
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I mean, I could use the "retouch" feature in Picasa but, that would be frame by frame for all 136k+ frames.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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As fashion magazine editors, we retouch pictures, removing flaws and occasionally slimming down a silhouette.
Body Image Is More Than Skin Deep Tina Gaudoin 2011
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But it's a foolish editor these days who overdoes the retouch and attracts the type of humiliating roasting that GQ magazine suffered at the hands of Kate Winslet over a 2003 cover shoot.
Body Image Is More Than Skin Deep Tina Gaudoin 2011
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