Detailed Retouching

One of the more subtle retouching skills you will acquire is wrinkle retouching. Sometimes you will simply want to remove them. But more often you will want to merely soften them in order to maintain a natural look. Wrinkle retouching uses many of the same tools and skills already discussed, but applied in a more subtle and careful fashion. Let the following example be a good practice session.

Subtlety Is Key
Throughout this posts, with all of these retouching repairs, we have paid special attention to making sure our edges were gradational. This was done by using reduced opacity, soft edges, and multiple brush strokes and or applying corrections, such as Healing Brush corrections, to retouch image elements placed on layers and then adjusting the opacity of the layer. All this attention to subtle detail ensures that our images not only will look good onscreen, but will also print well at high resolution, with no visible harsh edges or obvious swipe lines.