Retouching

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Example of a well-retouched photo by Black Velvet.

Retouching is the correction, manipulation or refinement of color, tone or detail in an original work of art, often a photograph.

Analog retouching

Until computers were available, retouching was done manually with drawing utensils such as pens and ink, painting utensils such as fine brushes and paint, as well as scratching techniques. It could be done on a negative or a positive.

Digital retouching

Today, most retouching is done digitally in an image editor, which is much easier and allows for making practically any changes imaginable, with some skill, seamlessly. Practically any photograph you see on a magazine cover or in an advertisement today is retouched, even when this is not visible to the customer's eyes.

Common examples of retouching a portrait or full-body figure:

  • removing image defects
  • improving color, tone, hue, etc.
  • removing wrinkles, spots, etc.
  • making the skin smoother
  • improving light and shade
  • changing the size and shape of body parts such as waist, breasts, buttocks, thighs, etc.
  • whitening the teeth, making dental corrections
  • whitening the eye, making the pupil bigger and/or darker, changing the iris color
  • improving eyebrows and eyelashes
  • adding or improving make-up
  • improving the lips, nose or ears

Such retouching typically involves digital cameras or scanners to obtain the original material in digital, and uses software such as Photoshop and often graphics tablets.

Retouching in spanking art

Retouching techniques can be used to improve the quality and to widen the stylistic range of professional spanking photos. For example, a model's looks, skin and/or figure can be improved, or marks can be added, changed or removed.

Retouching techniques can also be used (often by hobbyists, and often combined with photomontage techniques) to create comparatively high-quality spanking fakes, for example to:

  • turn a non-spanking image into a spanking image
  • change details of existing spanking images (e.g. the implement, the setting or the state of dress/undress)
  • exchange the face or body of the spanker or spankee
  • change the apparent age or gender of the spanker or spankee

See also

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