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Retouching craftProfessional Before-and-After Retouching Checklist
A checklist you can run in two minutes per frame that catches almost everything a client would have caught for you.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 5 min read
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Notes on editing, colour and post-production from the BeEdits studio.
Retouching craft
10 Retouching Mistakes Clients Notice Immediately
Clients rarely have the vocabulary to describe what is wrong with a retouched photograph. They just do not like it. These ten are usually why.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
Retouching craft
When You Should NOT Use AI for Photo Retouching
There are six situations where automated retouching is not a slightly worse choice but the wrong category of tool. Most of them are about accuracy, not aesthetics.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 5 min read
Retouching craft
AI Retouching vs Human Retouching: Where Each One Wins
The useful split is not quality. It is whether the task is an operation or a judgement — and every retouching job is some of each.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
Retouching craft
How to Remove Clothing Wrinkles Without Making Fabric Look Fake
Fabric without folds looks painted on. The skill is deciding which wrinkles describe the garment's shape and which are just creases from the hanger.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
Retouching craft
How to Whiten Teeth Naturally in Portrait Retouching
Teeth are not white. Making them white is the single most recognisable retouching mistake, and the fix is to reduce saturation rather than raise brightness.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 5 min read
Retouching craft
How to Clean a Studio Background Without Making It Look Artificial
A perfectly flat backdrop looks wrong. Real seamless has a falloff, and removing it is what makes a cleaned background announce itself.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
Retouching craft
How to Remove Flyaway Hair Naturally in Portrait Photos
The mistake is treating flyaways as a mask problem. They are a decision problem: which strands are distraction and which are the reason the photograph works.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
Retouching craft
How to Retouch Skin Without Making It Look Plastic
Plastic skin has one cause: colour and texture were fixed together. Separating them is the entire technique, and it is less complicated than it sounds.
BeEdits Editorial Team · · 6 min read
