retouchern.
/ˌriːˈtʌtʃə/, U.S. /riˈtətʃər/ A person who retouches something; esp. (in later use) a person employed to retouch images or photographs.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > renewed or further improvement > one who
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1821 Monthly Repository Theol. & Gen. Lit. Oct. 538/2 The different operators through whose hands a codex necessarily passed—the consonant writer—the..re-visor—the..critic and scholiast—the retoucher.
1848 G. Dennis Cities & Cemeteries Etruria I. xviii. 333/1 This brown mistiness Kestner regards as the original ground of the wall, left by the retoucher in its primal state.
1878 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 687 The tools of the retoucher are..fine brushes and delicate instruments with which he removes the imperfections from each article or fills in what may be lacking.
1948 H. Massingham Student's Guide Commerc. Art ii. 136 A retoucher works over the entire negative and paints over all parts required to be white in the final print.
1997 J. Seabrook Deeper v. 131 Mark..brought the images up on one of his screens, and the digital retouchers tweaked them using software like Adobe Photoshop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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