Post-Processing & Retouching
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Film Simulation
A colour and tone rendering designed to imitate the response of a specific photographic film.
Post-Processing & RetouchingFrequency Separation
A retouching technique that splits an image into a blurred low-frequency layer of tone and colour and a high-frequency layer of texture.
Post-Processing & RetouchingGradient Mask
A mask that fades an adjustment smoothly along a linear direction, digitally imitating a graduated filter.
Post-Processing & RetouchingHDR Merge
Combining bracketed exposures into one file holding a greater dynamic range than any single frame could.
Post-Processing & RetouchingHealing Brush
A retouching tool that copies texture from a source area while blending its tone and colour into the destination.
Post-Processing & RetouchingHighlight Recovery
The reconstruction of detail in bright areas where one or two colour channels have clipped but at least one has not.
Post-Processing & RetouchingImage Stacking
Averaging multiple identical exposures to reduce random noise or to combine content across frames.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLayer
A stacked element in an image document that can hold pixels, adjustments or effects independently of the layers below it.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLayer Mask
A greyscale channel attached to a layer that controls where that layer is visible, with white revealing and black concealing.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLens Correction Profile
A stored description of a lens's distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration, applied automatically during processing.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLevels
A tonal adjustment that sets the black point, white point and midtone gamma of an image or channel.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLiquify
A tool that pushes, pulls, expands or contracts image areas as though the pixels were fluid.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLocal Contrast
Contrast measured between neighbouring areas rather than across the whole tonal range, which strongly affects perceived depth and clarity.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLuminance Noise Reduction
Processing that smooths brightness variation between neighbouring pixels to reduce the appearance of grain.
Post-Processing & RetouchingLuminosity Mask
A mask generated from the image's own brightness values, restricting an adjustment to a specific tonal range.
Post-Processing & RetouchingNon-destructive Editing
An approach in which adjustments are stored as instructions rather than being written into the pixels of the original file.
Post-Processing & RetouchingOpacity
The degree to which a layer or adjustment obscures what is beneath it, expressed as a percentage.
Post-Processing & RetouchingOutput Sharpening
A final stage of sharpening tailored to the size, medium and viewing distance of the finished image.
Post-Processing & RetouchingPanorama Stitching
Combining several overlapping frames into a single wider image by aligning and blending them.
Post-Processing & RetouchingPerspective Correction
Digitally transforming an image to straighten converging verticals or horizontals.
Post-Processing & RetouchingPost-crop Vignette
A deliberate darkening or lightening of the frame edges, applied relative to the cropped boundaries rather than the original ones.
Post-Processing & RetouchingPreset
A saved set of processing settings that can be applied to other images in one action.
Post-Processing & RetouchingRadial Filter
A local adjustment applied within or outside an elliptical area, with a feathered edge.
Post-Processing & RetouchingRange Mask
A refinement that limits a local adjustment to pixels within a specified colour, luminance or depth range.