The [Illustration: Before and After Mending] dark lines are removed with the etching knife and the light ones with the retouching pencil.
This solution also makes an ideal retouching varnish for negatives.
The retouching of the blocks for the repeated editions of the Quadrupeds and the Birds, and the engraving of new cuts for the latter work, occupied a considerable part of his time.
When a cast requires clearing out and retouching in this manner, the operation ought to be performed by a wood engraver, and, if possible, by the person who executed the original block.
With the exception of clearing out the ink in two or three places, it has required no preparation or retouching to give it its present appearance.
If you are in a hurry to varnish, use a temporary or retouching varnish.
There is a retouching varnish, vernis a retoucher, which is made for this purpose, and is perfectly safe and good.
Photographs that need much retouching should generally be larger than publication size, for the effects of retouching--brush marks, etc.
The details and relief should, however, be strong enough to enable the draftsman to see them clearly, so that by retouching them and strengthening the shadows and high lights he can make them sufficiently strong for reproduction.
Smooth, even gradations of flat tones can not be successfully applied to photographs without it, and it is therefore indispensable, especially for retouching skies and covering other large areas.
Photographs that need only slight retouching need not be larger than publication size.
All retouching must be done on the originals or on the negatives made from then.
Retouching of photographs, materials and method used in.
If a photograph needs retouching it should be retouched with great care and just sufficiently to correct defects and to bring out or strengthen the important details.
Thus we shall see him continually retouching the Rule of his institute, unceasingly revising it down to the last moment, according as the growth of the Order and experience of the human heart suggested to him modifications of it.
Several negatives are entirely past printing and all of them require retouching by old-time photographers who understand the process.
The negatives are here accurately presented from the originals, by the modern half-tone process with only the slightest retouching where chemical action has made it absolutely necessary.
The original negative, although now forty-five years old, has required but slight retouching in the background.
The action of the other leg thrown back is shown in the retouching by the removal of the black line.
Not infrequently the forger tries to improve on his work by retouching some of the letters after he has completed a word.
Bouverot, who had been in Haarhaar, putting the lastretouching hand to the almost sketched marriage contract between Luigi and a Haarhaar princess, Isabella.
But retouching is not invariable, and is, in fact, confined to the finer specimens, such as those of Tanagra.
One of them, however, I could not forbear observing, who was very busie in retouching the finest Pieces, tho' he produced no Originals of his own.
There was no retouching of any kind, and I think the print shows the value of using a color filter with an orthochromatic plate where colors are contrasted in the subject.
Retouching can be done on this print with carbon pencil.
There are evident marks of retouching in these cuts, but when they first appeared cannot now be ascertained.
Had one line or hair of them gone wrong, it would have been wrong forever; no retouchingcould have mended it.
All noble effects of dark atmosphere are got in good water-colour drawing by these two expedients, interlacing the colours, or retouching the lower one with fine darker drawing in an upper.
Turner seems to have been so fond of these plates that he kept retouching and finishing them, and never made up his mind to let them go.
The retouching of which Vasari speaks, was done by Lorenzo di Credi in 1501, when the picture was reduced to its present form.
The Coronation has been too much damaged by useless retouching to be able fully to judge of its merits.
This scene is, however, much more simply designed, but cannot be fairly judged now, on account of the retouching and frequent varnishing which disfigure it.
It was the custom of Fra Giovanni," says Vasari, "to abstain from retouching or improving any painting once finished.
The face of the monk suddenly fell; he was silent, and went on retouching his drawing.
The monk was busily retouching the sketch of the Virgin of the Annunciation.
The monk seated himself on the garden wall, with his portfolio by his side, and seemed busily sketching and retouching some of his ideas.
The work of retouching is very trying to the eyes; great pains should therefore be taken to ascertain the most favorable conditions of light and distance under which to work.
The work of retouching requires certain appliances to facilitate it, and its own special room or atelier.
It occurred then to some one of the retouching artists to do this work upon the negative once for all, and from this beginning the art of retouching the negative has reached its present high position.
The refinements of negative retouching cannot be taught in books, although much has been written concerning the same.
These are all generally consistent with the type of retouching that we have previously discussed and I have previously pointed out.
When you said before that this retouching is done by airbrush or brush, what medium is used in the brush or airbrush to achieve the effect?
The negative I hand you now is the one I referred to as the first negative, and the one having the most extensive retouching or opaquing.
The purpose of the retouching in reproduction work is merely to enhance the detail so that it will not be lost in the engraving process.
This retouching is done either by brush or by airbrush, which is a device for spraying gray or shades of gray or black, onto the photograph.
As I understand your testimony, this is simply a retouching; this effect of a straight stock is simply achieved by retouching the photograph or doctoring it?
Now, would there be any conceivable reason for eliminating in a retouching the telescopic sight?
I would refer to it as retouching rather than doctoring, because what has been done has been retouched, and doctoring infers an attempt to disguise.
With a halftone process--it is possible to retouch, and then the halftone process destroys the retouching characteristics and makes it appear as a normal photograph rather than a retouched photograph.
One of them has a somewhat greater amount of retouching than the other.
There is other retouching at the shoulder, to the left of the photograph as we view it; that area has had some retouching of the highlights.
Some examples are finely serrated as a result of retouchingalong the blade edges.
Fine retouching employed to finish the blade and hafting area edges is usually evident.
Some retouching along the blade edges results in a finely serrated appearance.
Fine, sometimes steep, regular retouching along the blade edges accomplished by removal of alternate flakes from each face sometimes results in fine serrations.
Some retouching was carried out, especially near the distal end.
Other examples show a considerable amount of retouching along the blade edges.
Retouching often leaves the stem longer than the barbs.
Small, fairly deep flakes were removed in retouching the blade and stem edges.
Retouching was done by carefully controlled, broad, shallow secondary flaking followed by fine retouching along the blade edges.
Flakes removed in retouching the blade and stem edges are short and fairly deep.
Retouching often shortened the barbs; in some cases a barb was almost completely worked away.
Retouching of the edges was accomplished by removal of very short deep flakes.
The blade edges usually show rather broad retouching with some fine flaking along the retouched edges that gives a somewhat crushed effect, as does the baton method of percussion flaking.
The monk seated himself on the garden-wall, with his portfolio by his side, and seemed busily sketching and retouchingsome of his ideas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retouching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
