Retouch4me
RELU OÜ · Image
Retouch4me is an AI photo retouching plugin suite for portrait, wedding, and fashion photographers. It runs inside Photoshop, Lightroom, and Capture One to handle skin, eye, and background cleanup in one click.
About Retouch4me
What Is Retouch4me
Retouch4me is a set of AI retouching plugins made by RELU OÜ, the Estonian studio behind 3D LUT Creator. The tools were built for photographers who shoot portraits, weddings, and fashion, and who lose hours to the same manual steps on every frame.
Each plugin handles one job: removing blemishes and acne, smoothing shadows, brightening eyes, or cleaning a studio backdrop. The models were trained on professionally retouched photos, so the output keeps natural skin texture instead of the plastic look that heavy blurring creates. You pick the plugin, hit run, and the AI does the work in seconds.
The catch is that Retouch4me is not a standalone editor. It lives inside a host app, so you need licensed software like Photoshop, Lightroom, or Capture One before any plugin will run. It's also priced per plugin, so building a full retouching kit costs more than a single subscription tool. There's no public API, which rules it out for automated pipelines.
Getting Started
- Create an account on the retouch4.me site and sign up for the free trial that covers your first 20 images.
- Buy the individual plugins you want. Each one comes with a one-time license or a yearly plan.
- Install the plugin into your host app. Retouch4me works with Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, Affinity Photo, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere Pro.
- Open a photo in the host app, launch the Retouch4me panel, and pick a module like Heal or Dodge & Burn.
- Apply the effect at its default strength, then export the retouched file back into your normal editing workflow.
Product Information
A quick look at Retouch4me's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Wedding photographers
- Portrait and fashion studios
- School and team photographers
- Beginner retouchers
Tasks
- Removing acne, blemishes, and pores
- Smoothing shadows and uneven skin
- Brightening eyes
- Cleaning studio backdrops
- Matching skin tones across a set
Scenarios
- Delivering a wedding album on a tight deadline
- Prepping beauty shots for print
- Handling bulk school portraits
Key features
One-Click Skin Cleanup with Heal
Heal detects skin on its own and fixes blemishes, acne, and enlarged pores without any manual selection. It keeps the original skin texture instead of painting over it, so the result reads as natural in a final gallery. You can run it as the first step on nearly any portrait.
Dodge & Burn for Shadow Control
This module applies the classic dodging and burning technique automatically, smoothing nasolabial folds, eye bags, and unflattering shadows. It can export the result as a soft light layer, which keeps the edit non-destructive and lets you dial the effect back later.
Eye Cleanup and Enhancement
Eye Vessels removes red veins and redness from the whites of the eyes, while Eye Brilliance uses dodge and burn to make the iris pop. Both keep the natural eye shape, so the subject still looks like themselves.
Portrait Volumes for Depth
Portrait Volumes adds depth across the face by darkening and lightening specific regions, brightening the eyes and defining the nose and jawline. It works best on portraits shot with even lighting.
Background and Detail Tools
Clean Backdrop clears dust, small creases, and sensor spots from uniform backdrops, and it also suits flowers and still life. Fabric smooths creases and wrinkles in clothing, and White Teeth brings teeth back to a natural white in single and group shots.
Batch-Ready Workflow Inside Your Editor
Every plugin runs inside Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, or a supported video editor, so retouching stays in the app you already use. There's no separate export and import step, and the panel plugs into the standard filter workflow.
Pros and cons
Pros
- One-click modules cut routine retouching time on skin, eyes, and backgrounds.
- AI models preserve natural skin texture rather than smoothing it into plastic.
- Works inside Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, and several video editors, so it fits an existing workflow.
- Non-destructive output with soft light layers keeps edits reversible.
- Buying single plugins lets you pay only for the tasks you actually need.
Cons
- You must own a licensed host app like Photoshop or Capture One, which adds cost.
- Per-plugin pricing means a full suite runs into hundreds of dollars.
- No public API, so it can't be wired into automated batch pipelines.
- Results still need a check on tricky skin, and heavy use can look over-processed if you push default settings.
Frequently asked questions
Retouch4me automates portrait retouching tasks such as blemish removal, skin smoothing, eye brightening, and backdrop cleanup. Photographers use it to cut the repetitive part of editing on weddings, portraits, and fashion shoots.
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