Retouch wedding photos

Wedding frames come in sittings — the portraits on the steps, the family groups, the reception under tungsten. Within a sitting the camera drifts, and the first job is to make thirty frames look like one afternoon. This page opens the folder surface with exposure and white-balance matching on and the per-face passes off, because at a wedding every face deserves a person’s judgement.

Then choose the frames that need hands. Retouch these by hand opens each on the desk in turn; Next portrait carries the skin, light and eye values you settled on to the next frame — never the strokes — and the exports collect into one ZIP at the end.

What this mode runs on

Set passes

exposure · white balance, to the median

Per-face passes

off — done by hand

Drift limits

1.25 stops · 18 Cb/Cr units

Hand queue

Next portrait carries layer values

Output

JPG or PNG, local ZIP

• Nothing here lightens skin. That is a measured property of the tool, not a promise: every tonal layer is luminance only.
• It will not match frames from different light. A tungsten frame in a daylight set is declined, with the number.
• It does not batch faces. Skin, spots and eyes are done on the desk, one person at a time.

• Retouch a batchMeasure a folder first, match it to its own median, review every frame, then take the ZIP.
• Retouch a group photoOne numbered region per face, a skin layer for each, and the settings copied across on request.
• Retouch a headshotSkin prepared at 15, eyes at 10, light to hand, and a square frame centred on the face to save.
• How far is too farWhere the caps sit, why they are there, and what the distance readout is measuring.
• Why nothing here reshapes a faceThe one exclusion that is a decision rather than a boundary, and the reasoning behind it.