Photoshop's New Blemish Removal Tool Inside ACR Is Quietly Changing How I Retouch

Photoshop's New Blemish Removal Tool Inside ACR Is Quietly Changing How I Retouch

Skin retouching has always been the part of my post-production pipeline that resisted automation the most. Batch actions handle a lot for me – exposure corrections, sharpening passes, output resizing – but the moment a shot needs cleanup work on skin or clothing, I’ve always had to sit down and do it by hand. For e-commerce clients especially, that adds up. A forty-image apparel shoot with wrinkled fabric and uneven skin tones can eat two hours before I’ve even opened a delivery folder.