retouch

[ UK /ɹɪtˈʌt‍ʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance
    This photograph has been retouched!
  2. give retouches to (hair)
    retouch the roots
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How To Use retouch In A Sentence

  • There, on display at newsstands from coast to coast, was a photo of the New American Family, looking for all the world like a Norman Rockwell painting retouched by Charles Addams.
  • We had the wedding photos retouched to make it seem like a sunny day.
  • Large numbers of Mesolithic stone tools and weapon points were found, with toolmaking waste to show that some tools were knapped, retouched and repaired on site.
  • I'm still using film, which I scan, retouch in Photo Shop, and print on an inkjet.
  • Heartfield had a production team to cut, retouch, add type, and otherwise make the photomontages, which makes him more of an art director.
  • For example, at Smiling Dan, six blade tool categories were recognized, including denticulated, unretouched, retouched, notched, truncated, and side and end retouched.
  • The artist retouched the painting several times.
  • Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch (‘spokeshaves’) were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
  • He leaned back on this support with his face to the tower of the cathedral, now admirably commanded by their station, the high red-brown mass, square and subordinately spired and crocketed, retouched and restored, but charming to his long-sealed eyes and with the first swallows of the year weaving their flight all round it. The Ambassadors
  • 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
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