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Retoucher

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re·touch  (r-tch)
v. re·touched, re·touch·ing, re·touch·es
v.tr.
1. To add new details or touches to for correction or improvement.
2. To improve or change (a photographic negative or print), as by adding details or removing flaws.
3. To color (recent growth of hair) to match hair that was tinted, dyed, or bleached at an earlier date.
4. Archaeology To modify (a flaked stone tool) by secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
v.intr.
To give or make retouches.
n. (rtch, r-tch)
The act, process, or an instance of retouching.

re·toucher n.


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Let me give you a personal example of how a simple color-correction by a master retoucher on a small, insignificant $10 product managed to pay for the entire production and printing of a catalog.
He also began to specialise as a digital retoucher, making sure every client he worked for looked perfect in their finished photo for glossy magazines.
In the second interview, Froment speaks with Francoise Richard, a picture retoucher who began her career working for magazines in the 1940s.
 
 
 
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