Definition of Retouching

1. Verb. (present participle of retouch) ¹

2. Noun. A retouch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retouching

1. retouch [v] - See also: retouch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retouching

retortive
retorts
retoss
retotal
retotaled
retotaling
retotalled
retotalling
retotals
retothelioma
retouch
retouched
retoucher
retouchers
retouches
retouching
retouchings
retour
retoured
retouring
retours
retrace
retraceable
retraced
retracement
retracements
retracer
retracers
retraces
retracing

Literary usage of Retouching

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"THE practice of retouching the negative is too general now to use any ... There is a mechanical sort of retouching, and there is an artistic one, too. ..."

2. The Art of Fresco Painting: As Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1846)
"With respect to cleaning, retouching, and repairing frescoes, ... Roma, 1759, he strongly condemns the practice of retouching and repairing frescoes, ..."

3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1900)
"His retouching powder was made by adding pyro and ferrous sulphate to a solution of silver nitrate. A precipitate was formed, which was dried and then ready ..."

4. Voigtländer and I in Pursuit of Shadow Catching: A Story of Fifty-two Years by James Fitzallen Ryder (1902)
"NEGATIVE Retouching. The most important and first real improvement to the portrait photographer after the advent of collodion was retouching of negatives, ..."

5. Photography, Artistic and Scientific by Arthur Brunel Chatwood (1895)
"CHAPTER X. Retouching. ON the subject of retouching photographic negatives, there are a great many conflicting opinions, and a great deal of nonsense has ..."

6. The Encyclopædic Dictionary of Photography: Containing Over 2,000 References by Walter E. Woodbury (1896)
"Retouching.—The art of retouching does not consist as is often supposed in ... In landscape photography retouching should rarely be resorted to except in ..."

7. The American Annual of Photography (1912)
"To photograph hollow cut glassware fill with ink or aniline black water dye. Before photographing machinery deaden the bright parts with putty. Retouching ..."

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