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RAW Edited with Retouch4Me RAW Edited with Retouch4Me Here are the masks and edits applied from the rest of the toolset: Backdrop It was actually a lot easier to just let the application do what it needs to, then mask/paint things away in photoshop directly afterward. While those tools do work, at least in my experience they didn’t work very well and were quite laggy. The plugins allow you to see the before and after of the edits and even provide you with some tools to paint in additional areas or even erase them where the app may have gone a bit heavy. For the most part, the auto mode works brilliantly, at least in clean studio images, but for busier shots with lots happening in the background or foreground, you may want to play with these options to ensure you get the best results.
You can choose between a full-length, three-quarter, close-up/headshot, or “Auto” modes to operate with.
When you load the layer into the plugin, the program analyzes the image and then chooses what it feels the best course of action is to “fix” the image. For instance, below is how the plugin windows look while running the Fabric Clean up tool on the above image: While each application is run individually, the layout and tools available within them are rather similar to one another. RAW File Edited with nothing but Retouch4Me
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The skin work and fabric and backdrop cleanup in this particular shot were executed pretty flawlessly. In most situations, especially in fashion work, there will be some things that need cleaning up like stray hairs and fixing bulges or folds in the clothing, but that’s the easy part most of the time. The plugins work impressively well and the entire process took less than five minutes from loading into Photoshop and saving as a final jpeg.
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While Eye Brilliance does work, there is never a good reason to go that crazy on it unless you’re making a superhero or monster movie poster. I choose the following workflow order: Backdrop Clean up, Skin Tone, Portrait Volume, Dodge and Burn, Fabric, Eye Vessels, Eye Brilliance, and then Healing.įor this particular image, everything worked almost perfectly with no adjustments needed except for dialing back the Eye Brilliance (it was super heavy-handed and I ended up turning it down by about 70%).
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In the gif below, I took a RAW file from a recent fashion shoot and did a fully automated retouch (with some minor manual tweaks in between) on new layers for each tool labeling each along the way. I recommend creating a new layer for each plugin you plan to run, that way you can mask and apply as lightly or heavily as you like after the fact. The first thing worth noting is that the Retouch4Me plugins work on whatever the current layer you have selected in Photoshop, so if you start using multiple plugins or prefer to keep things organized in your layers, you will have to pay close attention to click the tools as they do not label themselves or create new layers. While the plugins can get expensive (they range from $124 to $149 per plugin), once you start adding them together, their value in the time saved will be beyond measure.įor the purpose of my review, I tested the plugins through Adobe Photoshop as a “filter/plugin” applying masks and opacity changes as they were needed. Overall, the plugins are designed to take the stress and pressure out of portrait retouching, while saving you time behind the computer. This can lead to some hiccups and crashes (from my experience) depending on the images and what is in them, so while you can do this, I’d personally recommend just running things manually. In their current state, each plugin has to be run individually on a particular image (meaning there isn’t a bulk-edit option), however, you can make your own Action in Photoshop that can automate the process of running multiple plugins one after the other.
Retouch4Me currently have nine individual plugins for a variety of tasks that can be used as a stand-alone app or launched through Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, or Capture One Pro.
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Unlike most software suites where everything is baked into one application as a big all-encompassing platform, Retouch4Me is offered as individual plugins that, while not cheap, allow potential users to pick and choose exactly what steps in their workflow they would like to have sped up and automated. Luckily enough, I was actually very pleasantly surprised with just how powerful these plugins actually are.
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Naturally then, I was both excited to see if the Retouch4Me plugins worked and skeptical given how tools to this point have not come close to the performance expectations of a professional retoucher.
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