Key Takeaways
- Retouch4Me provides photographers and videographers with realistic AI editing tools to achieve subtle and professional results.
- Available tools include skin repair, background cleanup, teeth whitening, fabric smoothing, and more.
- Purchase plugins for Mac and Windows systems separately directly from the Retouch4Me website.
There are countless AI editing tools for photographers and videographers, many of which offer results that look obviously AI-edited. But Retouch4Me lets you harness the power of AI to improve your photos and videos, with results that are subtle and realistic.
Retouch4Me applies realistic AI editing
Retouch4Me is a set of plugins and standalone tools that use AI technology to quickly edit photos and videos without the over-the-top, AI-edited look.
By integrating Retouch4Me's AI technology into your editing workflow, you can save time on many common editing processes such as color grading, skin restoration, background cleanup, dodging and burning, etc. The results are realistic and detailed, which is especially useful for portrait photography and videography.
Traditional editing tools require you to carefully brush or mask areas, preview the results, and tweak until you're happy. Retouch4Me uses neural network technology to deliver fast results.
How to Access Retouch4Me
Retouch4Me's AI photo and video editing tools and plugins can be purchased directly from the Retouch4Me website. All plugins can be purchased separately and are available for both Mac and Windows systems.
Photography tools start at $124 each, while video editing plugins start at $224. All purchases come with a lifetime license. There are also some free tools, and users can try the photography plugins 20 times for free before purchasing.
The Retouch4Me tool is available as a standalone tool with a basic interface, or as a Photoshop plug-in, for example with the free Retouch4Me Photoshop panel, or as an external editor within Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom or Capture One photography software.
The video editing tools are only available in DaVinci Resolve, a free video editing software. There are many reasons to use DaVinci Resolve for your video, but the addition of the Retouch4Me tools takes the software to the next level.
Like many photo editing tools, most of Retouch4Me's AI tools are commonly used in photo editing workflows. These quick and easy AI tools will cut your editing workflow in half.
Healing, Skin Mask, Skin Tone, Mattifier
Retouch4Me offers four tools related to portrait skin editing: The Heal tool identifies skin in an image and removes blemishes without over-smoothing, resulting in a natural-looking result.
The Skin Mask tool identifies skin in your photo and masks those areas. Masked skin allows you to apply global edits that affect only the skin areas, without the need for manual selection or brushing.
Skin Tone evens out the skin tones of people in your photo. When applying to large areas of skin, it is effective to evaluate the skin tone across that area and then apply an even skin tone.
Like any good matte face powder, the Mattifier plugin helps remove oil and shine from your portrait model's skin. The tool evens out skin tones in light-hit areas, giving skin a natural matte look.
Dodge and Burn
Traditionally, dodging and burning requires manually brushing over the areas of an image you want to lighten or darken, which takes time and precision.
Photoshop lets you easily dodge and burn, but not instantly. With Retouch4Me, it's all at the click of a button. This tool is perfect for correcting under-eye bags, dark veins in the skin, deep wrinkles, or unflattering shadows, and you can edit layers to further improve the result.
Portrait Volume
You may already be following all the best tips for taking great self-portraits, but you can also increase the sense of depth in your self-portrait with Retouch4Me's Portrait Volumes. This tool brightens eyes, enhances lips, and improves the overall look of your face.
Retouch4Me focuses on subtlety of results, so using this tool you won't end up with distorted, plastic-looking facial features.
Eye shine and blood vessel removal
These two Retouch4Me tools affect the eyes in your photo. Most photographers like to add a little sparkle to the eyes because they are the windows to the soul.
Eye Brilliance enhances the appearance of your eyes by improving iris color, adding a subtle sparkle and making your eyes stand out, while Vessel Removal quickly removes those telltale red blood vessels sometimes seen in the eye (these are natural but can look distracting in photos).
Teeth Whitening
Portraits with teeth will look great with a natural white smile. The Teeth Whitener plugin will identify and whiten teeth. If you feel the result is too white, just select the layer and reduce the opacity until you are happy with it.
fabric
The Fabric tool identifies large areas of fabric in your photo and removes unwanted creases to make your model's outfit look flawless.
The tool produces natural results, meaning that any creases necessary for your model's pose remain intact, without looking overly smooth or obviously edited using AI.
Clean the background and dust
Portraits taken in a photo studio often rely on clean backgrounds with neutral colors, lit with a variety of studio lighting. While most backgrounds are clean and flat in color, small blemishes, shadows and dust can easily show up in your photos. Retouch4Me's Clean Backdrop tool instantly restores neutral and flat colors.
The Dust tool quickly identifies and removes particles for cleaner photos. It can fix dust particles that have fallen on your lens or dust remnants that have appeared in the air in your photos.
Frequency Separation and Color Matching
The Frequency Separation plugin is free for all users. The plugin separates your photo into layers based on image frequency for easy retouching. This includes high frequencies for fine textures, mid frequencies to reveal larger specks and imperfections in your image, and low frequencies for depth and color. As a standalone tool, it can be used to control image sharpness by adjusting the frequency range and provide a soft focus effect.
Color Match allows you to match the color grading of your image to any color using a color picker. This tool allows you to change the mood of your photo through global colors. This tool is available in premium and free versions.
While Retouch4Me focuses primarily on photo editing tools, it also offers two video editing tools, available only in DaVinci Resolve, that allow you to make subtle edits to human subjects in your videos.
Healing, evasion and burning
Similar to the skin inpainting tool in photo editing, the video inpainting tool identifies and subtly removes skin blemishes in your videos. This tool is useful for close-up videos or when you have poor skin tone while shooting a Vlog.
The Dodge and Burn tool helps you lighten or darken the areas you need, especially useful for correcting shadows and highlights in foreground subjects. Retouch4Me identifies areas that can benefit from Dodge and Burn and applies the tool.
Color Match
Similar to the photo editing tools, Retouch4Me's video options also include a Color Match tool, which makes it easy to color correct or color grade your videos, allowing you to transform colors using a reference image.
If you want to give your photos and videos a professional finish, Retouch4Me's suite of tools delivers realistic results. With a perpetual license and ongoing updates, you'll have access to the tools whenever you need to perfect your images and videos. In a world overused with AI images, the subtle touch of AI is a welcome addition to any photo or video editor's workflow.
