The word "retouching" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the adjustment of digital images or photographs, usually done with computer software. Example sentence: "The photographer spent several hours retouching the wedding photos before sending them to the couple."
Lamb had been insistent that Page 3 should not be sleazy (his deputy Bernard Shrimsley once making the notable retouching instruction: "Nipples too fantastic – make nipples less fantastic"), and he gave final say over publication of each day's photo to the women's editor, Joyce Hopkirk.
I hate that Photoshopping and retouching images of women has become so commonplace that there are apps young women can download to "fix" their Instagram and Facebook pictures.
Counterfeiters can copy an image's security signature and reapply it after retouching, says Vladimir Katalov, ElcomSoft's boss.Another way to determine whether an image has been manipulated or not relies on the fact that in a digital camera's grid of millions of light sensors, several are usually flawed.
Like FourMatch, its software examines image files to look for inconsistencies in colour, encoding and compression formats that indicate the use of retouching software to modify the image.
In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.
She and her team have employed great technical flair, using watercolour retouching.
These defects cannot be cured and can be visually ameliorated only by judicious retouching.
The calligrapher, using a combination of technical skill and imagination, must provide interesting shapes to the strokes and must compose beautiful structures from them without any retouching or shading and, most important of all, with well-balanced spaces between the strokes.
These cards were inexpensive relative to other forms of portraiture, as eight different poses could be made at one sitting and the images required no retouching.
Some Cro-Magnons have been associated with the Gravettian industry, or Upper Perigordian industry, which is characterized by an abrupt retouching technique that produces tools with flat backs.
The airbrush can be a pencil-shaped atomizer used for a variety of much more detailed activities such as shading drawings and retouching photographs.
