

Each of these plugins can be used in Photoshop and Lightroom or can be used as stand-alone software. Based on their website, right now, they have eight different effects, including backdrop cleanup, skin retouch, facial dodge and burn, global portrait dodge and burn, and teeth whitening, to name a few. Unlike other major software manufacturers that offer a single editing platform that can be bought or rented for a set price, Retouch4me offers each plugin effect as a stand-alone piece of software. From my research online, Retouch4Me is a relatively new company based in Estonia, and although their name sounds kind of cheesy, their products are powerful.

Therefore, I was a bit surprised and skeptical, to be honest, when we received several emails about Retouch4Me and their retouching plugins. What Is Retouch4Me?Īs a full-time photographer who also runs a massive photography-based website, I felt pretty well acquainted with the major software players in the imaging world. However, after playing around with some of Retouch4Me's automated retouching tools, I'm pretty excited for what the future holds. It's pretty amazing to see this jump in technology, but it's also equally frustrating to find that many of the software solutions offering these new artificial intelligence tools are slow, clunky, and at times, buggy and unstable. Other retouching jobs like dodging and burning, skin cleanup, and body shape manipulation are now also becoming more and more common with a single click of a button. Tasks that used to seem impossible, like replacing a sky convincingly or making perfect mask selections, are now becoming increasingly automated. It seems over the last few years the advances in photo-editing and manipulation software have boomed at a rate not seen since the earliest days of Photoshop.
