AI Portrait Retouch

Upload a portrait and choose how far to go. The AI touches skin only β€” spots, shine and patchy tone are cleaned up while your face shape, feature proportions, skin tone and expression stay untouched, pores and all.

Five strength levelsFace shape never alteredPores kept, no plastic skinID-photo-safe level
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Upload a portrait and pick a strength

Retouch results

The same face at all five strengths β€” moles and freckles survive every one of them.

Even tone only
Even tone only
Light clean-up
Light clean-up
Standard retouch
Standard retouch
Studio-grade finish
Studio-grade finish
ID-photo safe
ID-photo safe
Freckles and moles kept
Freckles and moles kept

What this retoucher gets right

Retouching tools usually fail by turning you into someone else. This one is written to refuse that.

Skin changes, bone structure doesn’t

Skin changes, bone structure doesn’t

Face shape, jawline, nose, eyes, lips and the proportions between them are preserved pixel for pixel. No slimming, no enlarged eyes, no sculpted jaw β€” the person in the result is unmistakably you.

Pores stay, plastic skin doesn’t

Pores stay, plastic skin doesn’t

The work happens on blemishes, shine and uneven tone, never on the texture underneath. Real pores and skin grain survive, so the result still reads as a photograph rather than an airbrush.

Four levels, plus a lane built for IDs

Four levels, plus a lane built for IDs

Even tone only, Light clean-up, Standard and Studio-grade form one ladder, each doing a little more than the last. ID-photo safe sits outside it: shine and temporary blemishes still go, but smoothing, lightening, under-eye work and contouring are all forbidden, so the photo still matches you at an identity check.

Three steps to a clean portrait

No layers, no masks, no plugins.

1

Upload a portrait

Click or drag a clear portrait photo. JPG, PNG and WebP all work.

2

Pick a strength

Four levels run from light to heavy: if you are unsure, start at Even tone only and work up. For an ID or passport photo, pick ID-photo safe instead.

3

Generate and download

Results arrive in under a minute. Too light or too heavy? Change the level and run it again.

Where portrait retouch helps

Anywhere the skin needs to look cleaner and the person still needs to look like themselves.

Client selects and proofs

Run a whole set at one strength so the proofs look consistent, and let the client choose their frames from images that still look like them.

Corporate headshots

Team pages, badges and LinkedIn profiles: shine and temporary blemishes gone, everything else left alone.

Selfies and group photos

Clear up a late-night complexion and the spot that turned up this morning β€” without redrawing anyone’s face.

Beauty content and listing previews

Makeup detail and skin texture stay intact; only on-set shine and specular hotspots are cleaned up. At around 1024px it suits social content and pre-listing previews rather than the final hero image.

Versus retouching by hand

The same job β€” one needs Photoshop skills, the other needs one click.

AI portrait retouch
Manual retouching
Time
Under a minute
15 minutes a photo, easily
Skill required
Pick a level
Years of practice
Consistency
Identical at the same level
Varies shot to shot
Over-editing risk
The prompt forbids feature changes
Down to the retoucher’s restraint
Working through a set
Same level, shot after shot
Fatigue creeps into the results

Start free, upgrade anytime

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About AI portrait retouching

Clean skin, still unmistakably you

Upload a portrait, pick a strength, and see the result in under a minute.

AI Portrait Retouch - Five strengths that never change your face