retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)
(transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:
I remember an article from the 90s that first mentioned ‘computer doctoring’ in terms of photo manipulation. Before Photoshop become well known, the practice was called doctoring.
And doctoring is almost as old as photography itself. The Tichborne case in France in the 19th century is one. They had some basic tricks to photographs at the time (most double or partial exposures) but they did count as manipulation.
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I remember an article from the 90s that first mentioned ‘computer doctoring’ in terms of photo manipulation. Before Photoshop become well known, the practice was called doctoring.
Photos were ‘Airbrushed’ before that, more for removing blemishes or making models thinner.
Airbrushing was one technique. There were others.
And doctoring is almost as old as photography itself. The Tichborne case in France in the 19th century is one. They had some basic tricks to photographs at the time (most double or partial exposures) but they did count as manipulation.