Retouch like a pro in Affinity Photo
Make use of Affinity Photo’s powerful array of retouching features to create portraits with impact
Retouching is the next step up from basic image correction: with correction, you adjust the overall look of the image, adjusting the exposure or contrast, for example. Retouching is when you edit the details, perhaps removing blemishes from skin or erasing stray hairs. Affinity Photo has much to offer the modern retoucher. Powerful tools like the Healing Brush and the Inpainting Brush let you remove unwanted details with ease, while fantastic commands like Frequency Separation make advanced retouching techniques accessible to everyone.
Here we’ll explore an array of retouching techniques you can use to boost your portraits, from fixing small imperfections to larger problems like the hair over the eye in our original image here. For this we can’t simply clone or heal: we have to take things further and copy over the other eye to replace the details that are hidden.
Each of our edits makes use of a different layer, so everything remains editable. This is important for retouching: editing on separate layers means that we can tone things down or retrace our steps.