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Non-generative skin retouching

AI Skin Retouching That Leaves the Face as Shot

Most AI retouching redraws your photo and quietly changes the person in it. Retouch.to cleans the skin on your original image and leaves the face, the marks and the resolution as shot. Protect moles with a brush and batch an entire session.

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Retouch skin with one click.

The problem

Manual retouching is eating your time.

A typical portrait session produces dozens of selects. Retouching each one by hand in Photoshop takes hours you don't have, and most AI tools overcorrect, wiping out the natural features that make your subjects look like themselves.

Hours spent retouching skin, per session

Zooming in, healing, cloning. Careful not to flatten the texture. Then doing it again for 40 more images. It's the part of the job nobody talks about.

AI tools that change the person

Generative editors don't retouch your photo. They repaint it, and anything the model isn't told to keep is open to change: the jawline, the eyes, a mole, the real pores. The result looks polished but stops looking like the client, and clients notice, because they know their own face. Read more in why ChatGPT changes faces when retouching.

Downscaled exports

Consumer-grade tools compress or resize your images on export. You upload a 52MP file and get back a web-ready JPEG. Not useful for print clients.

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Preserve moles and birth marks

Draw a protect zone over a mole, birthmark, or scar and the AI treats it as off-limits, not a flaw to smooth over. Most AI retouchers can't tell the difference between a blemish and a birthmark. This one does, because you tell it.
Preserve skin spots with protect brush.
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Batch retouch your session

Upload the full shoot, set your protect zones, and queue the batch. Retouch.to processes every image in the background at the same settings, so you don't redo the same three sliders 40 times.
AI batch retouch photoshoot
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Exposure and color adjustments

If you need further adjustments such as exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, sharpness and colors, there is a dedicated setting for that. Non-destructive. Not sure about the edit? Return a few days later and adjust it.
Exposure and color adjustments
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Images at full resolution

No compression, no downscaling, no "web-ready" surprise. Upload a 52MP file and a 52MP file comes back: the exact resolution you shot, whatever it is. Ready for print, not just Instagram.
Full resolution export

Retouched, not regenerated

What can change when a tool redraws your photo, and what Retouch.to leaves alone.

Identity checkGenerative regenerationRetouch.to
Facial featuresCan drift from the originalLeft as shot
Moles and frecklesKept only if the model decides toProtected by a zone you paint
Skin textureCan be replaced with generic texturePores and fine lines kept
ResolutionNot guaranteed to matchExactly as uploaded
Consistency across a shootA different result on every runSame settings across the queue

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Questions?

Frequently asked questions

Generative editors that redraw the whole image can, because they produce a new rendering rather than editing your file. Retouch.to only cleans the skin on your original image and leaves features, expression and likeness as shot.

It is an AI model, but it is used to clean skin on your original photo rather than to generate a new picture from a prompt. The output is your image with imperfections removed.

It preserves texture. The AI targets blemishes specifically (acne, redness, spots) without applying a skin-smoothing filter across the whole face. Pores, fine details, and the natural surface of skin remain visible in the final image.

Yes. Define protect zones over any area, such as moles and birthmarks, and the AI won't touch them. Mark them before you run the retouch, because an unmarked mole can be read as a blemish.

Because a wrong guess on a client's face isn't a bug you can patch later. It's a photo you can't undeliver. You mark what stays, so the AI only acts where you tell it to, on every image in the batch.

Light freckles are kept, but prominent freckles can be softened when they aren't protected. Paint a protect zone over them first, then check the result at 100% zoom.

Exactly what you uploaded. No downscaling, no compression, no hidden quality loss. Your files come back at the full pixel dimensions and file quality you put in.

Upload multiple images to a project, queue them for retouching, and the AI processes them in the background. You can set up protect zones per image, or apply the same settings across the session. Each image costs 1 credit.

Yes. Retouch.to runs on self-hosted servers. Your images are never shared with third-party AI providers and never used to train any model.

Portrait sessions tend to be busy, or not. Top up credits any time, on top of your base plan. Top-up credits roll over month to month in case you don't spend them, and are available as long as your base subscription is active.