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This work was done by Gardena-based company KC Restoration, which retouched and treated each damaged or cracked tile with the type of care and attention to detail used by painting conservators, Denk said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

He also found scrapers and other retouched pieces known as Mousterian stone artifacts that suggested the cave had been used by Neanderthals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

Even in studies in which participants knew the photos they were shown on Instagram were retouched and reshaped, adolescent girls still felt worse about their bodies after viewing them.

From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023

The models look “so retouched that they seem more like A.I.-generated bots than actual people,” Vanessa Friedman, The Times’s chief fashion critic, writes.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Someone had retouched the photo and painted Henrietta’s face an unnatural yellow.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot