A photo retoucher looks at many images to get the best possible result, and works to eliminate what can be done with editing. For example, a typical image retoucher might look at a photo’s exposure bracketing, lighting, and contrast.
For the most part, photo retouchers do not edit images. However, there are a few things that photo retouchers can do to improve the image of selected images.
Pretouching
What if the image is too dark? What if the image’s exposure is too low, or the sharpness is not right?
The retoucher can perform retouching — either to correct the exposure, or to tone down, increase density, or adjust contrast. Sometimes, retouching is done on individual pixels, or individual areas. For example, the retoucher might “pretouch” an image by applying an exposure increase, which then highlights the area being retouched.
Photo retouchers can usually retouch images at a lower sensitivity and a higher exposure, than an artist. With these settings, however, the retoucher is typically not capable of doing the following adjustments:
Adding brightness (e.g., adjusting shadows)
Adding brightness (e.g., increasing brightness)
Increasing contrast
Increasing texture
Improving sharpness
In addition, photo retouchers often cannot retouch images at the same time as the photographer does. For example, if the person is shooting a black & white image, and the retoucher is shooting in color, they may be competing to match the photographer’s color tone. On a black & white photo, it may not be possible to “cover” the color, thus altering the image significantly. Similarly, retouchers cannot perform an exposure adjustment when they are simultaneously taking another photograph.
For a better understanding of how retouching works in a photo retoucher, and how these adjustments may affect the image, take a look at the image retouchers’ examples below.
Exposure Adjustment
To correct an image’s exposure the retoucher adds either more light (saturation) or dark (blur). Light may be added by brightening or decreasing the brightness, and dark may be added by darkening or increasing the saturation. A photo retoucher sometimes adds a small amount of grain, or texture, to the image. Most photo retouchers prefer grain in their
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