Retouch a photo

Touch up a photo

Touch up a photo in three steps.

Spots, then skin, then eyes. Skip any step, compare each one, then download.

A phone portrait is the usual case: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and ICO open natively, HEIC fetches a decoder the first time, and TIFF opens where your browser supports it.

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A portrait print with four healed spots ringed and three numbered steps
What this tool does, and the files it opens

Three steps on the full desk — spots, skin, eyes — and then save. Each step chooses the tool and a modest value; skip any of them, and hold Space to compare as you go.

Open a portrait and the guided pass sits above the inspector: Spots (find proposals or click a spot), Skin (on at 15 per cent), Eyes (a red-eye check), Save. Back, Skip and Next move between them; the desk stays visible throughout.

A phone portrait is the usual case: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and ICO open natively, HEIC fetches a decoder the first time, and TIFF opens where your browser supports it.

Keys on the desk: Move V · Heal J · Clone S · Smooth B · Dodge O · Burn N · Colour A · Whiten W · Red-eye R · Skin F · Shine H · Under-eye U · Face G · hold Space to see the original · Ctrl Z to undo.

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When to use the guided pass

When you want a portrait to look like a good day rather than a different person, and you do not want to learn a retouching desk to get there. The three steps are the order a careful retoucher works in anyway: marks first, because a spot removed before smoothing leaves nothing for the smoother to spread; skin second, at a low value; eyes last.

If you already know the tools, the front page opens the same desk without the steps. If the picture is a document photo for a form, use the passport and ID page instead — those rules forbid most of this.

What each step does

Spots puts the heal brush in your hand. Find spots proposes small marks that differ from the skin around them, ringed on the picture and listed; nothing is healed until you press Heal on a proposal or Heal these. Skin turns the skin layer on at 15 per cent inside the working region — Skip turns it back off. Eyes runs the red-eye check and rings any red pupil for you to accept. Save opens the format, Fit a limit and square framing options.

What this mode runs on
Step 1
Spots — proposals, never automatic
Step 2
Skin — on at 15%, texture kept
Step 3
Eyes — red-eye check, accepted per pupil
Step 4
Save — JPG, PNG, WebP where supported, or a KB limit
Compare
hold Space or press Source on any step

What it will not do

  • It does not decide what a blemish is. The spot finder is deliberately timid and only proposes; a mole or a freckle is yours to keep.
  • It does not remove lines or reshape. Lines are softened, at most 70 per cent, on the wrinkles page; nothing changes the shape of a face.
  • It is not for document photos. Passport and visa rules want appearance unaltered.

What people ask

Can I skip a step?
Yes. Skip moves on without applying anything; on the Skin step it also turns the layer back off. Back returns to any earlier step.
Does anything happen without me pressing it?
Only what a step says: the Skin step turns the layer on at 15 per cent, and the Eyes step runs the red-eye check. Spots are proposed, never healed, until you accept them.
How do I compare a step?
Hold Space, or press Source in the top bar, to see the untouched picture at the same place and zoom.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. Every step runs in this tab; the export is written here too.
Why 15 per cent for skin?
Because a touch-up should leave the person recognisably themselves at 100 per cent zoom. The pore-texture-retained figure beside the slider tells you what any other value costs.

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