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Recent Examples of retouch
Royal family Another official photograph involving Catherine, Princess of Wales was digitally manipulated, according to a leading photo agency, sparking a second royal retouching controversy.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Reality is retouched and run through filters, allowing some public figures to appear ageless while sparking unreasonable suspicions about those who don’t.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Francis would have known that, for more than a century before he was born, in 1937, photographic technique — lighting and exposure, in the studio, and then developing and printing and even retouching, in the darkroom — had deliberately been used to lighten Black complexions, and negate them.
—Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
With Luminar's photo-editing software, which won the Red Dot Award for Interface Design, photographers can retouch skin, change the direction of a light source, and remove objects from a photo, all with a few clicks thanks to AI assistance.
—Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Reality is retouched and run through filters, allowing some public figures to appear ageless while sparking unreasonable suspicions about those who don’t.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Francis would have known that, for more than a century before he was born, in 1937, photographic technique — lighting and exposure, in the studio, and then developing and printing and even retouching, in the darkroom — had deliberately been used to lighten Black complexions, and negate them.
—Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
With Luminar's photo-editing software, which won the Red Dot Award for Interface Design, photographers can retouch skin, change the direction of a light source, and remove objects from a photo, all with a few clicks thanks to AI assistance.
—Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
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Compact yet powerful, this nail drill boasts a 20,000 RPM rotary motor that’s adjustable to all your nail care needs: shaping, buffing, grinding, polishing, and cuticle-ling (should be a word).WIRED, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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Kirk Hill, a resident who's part of the Mohican Regent Association said the new signage will polish the community and bring people together.Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
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He was also ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution and fined $25,000 for making false police reports.Megan Thomas, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined $25,100, though his sentence was reduced to eight years in prison, and his fine to $15,100.Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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This edition of Forbes Daily was edited by Sarah Whitmire, Chris Dobstaff and Caroline Howard.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Volunteers from West Volusia Audubon Society lead this monthly program series, which includes in-class instruction and field opportunities to hone skills.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
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For internal communications professionals, this step might involve partnering with ghostwriters to help your subject-matter experts externalize their thinking or running workshops to help experts hone their writing skills.Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Western governments and South Korea say North Korea in recent months has intensified its military support for Russia.Barry Hatton, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2024
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During sports competitions that involve intense physical activity, such as soccer, players can experience significant thermoregulatory strain, which may be further intensified by the thermal environment, Lindner-Cendrowska said.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 Nov. 2024
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These proved impractical in some instances and had to be revised.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Yet in the new rule to revise Regulation II, the Fed proposes to lower the price cap to just 14.4 cents per transaction.John Berlau, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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My own moral courage, my backbone, has been reinforced, actually, in making this film, because there is a real moral clarity to this issue.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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But more than just his talents with a brush, the film’s Greek chorus of experts from artistic and theological corners of the world reinforce the belief that da Vinci was also one of mankind’s greatest thinkers with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.Hunter Ingram, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Bonvicini acquired each pair of jeans for around $20 and spent $14 reworking them before washing them in her home washing machine.Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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Pieces in the collection includes Barbour’s famous Bedale jacket, which was first designed in 1980, reworked with Baracuta’s distinctive dog ear collar.Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Retouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retouch. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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