AI Image Editor
The retouch desk: skin finish, relighting and backdrop corrections on frames that are nearly right. One instruction per job, originals preserved.
The retouch desk: skin, light and small mercies
Beauty work is rarely ruined wholesale; it is ruined in details — skin polished into plastic, a backdrop a shade too dull, light falling from the wrong side for the set the frame is joining. This desk corrects those details. Describe the change in plain language and the frame is re-rendered with the correction applied and everything else held still. Pricing is per job, shown before you confirm, and the untouched original always remains in your library.
How the desk likes to work
Bring frames with good bones
A portrait whose pose and light please you, with details that do not. A frame wrong at its core is cheaper to regenerate than to repair.
Ask for one correction at a time
A single instruction per job keeps the rest of the frame faithful — and keeps the cost easy to predict.
Compare, then keep the kinder version
Original and retouch sit side by side in your library. Publish the winner; the other costs nothing further.
Corrections asked for most
Finish without the plastic
Soften a shine, even a tone, keep the texture — the difference between retouched and airbrushed away.
Relight and brighten
Move a portrait from flat noon to golden morning, or lift a dim frame into the studio’s usual glow.
Cleaner surroundings
Swap a cluttered room for a calm ivory wall, or carry a portrait into the glasshouse where its set-mates live.
Instructions that retouch cleanly
“Soften the shine on her forehead and even the skin tone, keeping natural texture and every freckle; change nothing else.”
Names the correction, names the limit, and protects the rest of the frame in one breath. “Keep texture” is the phrase that prevents the plastic look.
“Relight this portrait as soft morning window light from the left, warm and bright, keeping her pose, dress and expression identical.”
One change of light. Asking for new light, new dress and new setting in a single job is not a retouch — it is a new portrait wearing the old one’s name.
Retouch, or generate again?
| Situation | Kinder move |
|---|---|
| Pose and light delight you; skin or backdrop does not | Retouch — the frame’s bones are already right |
| The composition itself misses | Generate again with a corrected recipe |
| One portrait needed in three lights | Retouch the keeper three ways |
How is retouching priced?
Per job, shown before you confirm. Mending a keeper is normally gentler on the balance than regenerating and re-culling a whole set.
Does a retouch replace my original?
No. The retouched frame arrives as a new piece; the original stays exactly as it was.
How many corrections can one job carry?
One, comfortably. Stacked instructions destabilise precisely the parts you asked to keep.
Can the desk retouch uploaded photographs?
Yes — your own photographs, under the same consent rules as every upload in the studio.
Why did a retouch drift from the original?
Almost always a vague instruction. Narrow it, and say explicitly what must remain identical.
One library, lit the same way throughout
Portraits, retouching, motion and enlarging all draw on a single balance and a single private library — so a set begun as stills can finish as clips without changing hands or changing light.
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