Body Skin Retouching

Located in the Retouch Tool Tab, Body Skin Retouching extends Even Skin adjustments beyond the face, helping smooth subtle contrast differences across larger skin areas while preserving natural texture and highlights.

Table of contents

• Use Even Skin on the body
• Adjust the Texture slider
• Retouch multiple people
• Face detection requirements
• Tips for natural-looking results
• Requirements and limitations

Use Even Skin on the body

Body Skin Retouching applies Even Skin adjustments to detected body skin areas. The feature helps smooth variations in skin appearance while preserving highlights and important texture details.

The effect is similar to Even Skin adjustments previously available for facial retouching.
 

Adjust the Texture slider

The Texture slider controls how much skin texture is retained during retouching.

• Higher texture values retain more natural skin detail.
• Lower texture values create a smoother appearance.

Adjust the slider carefully to maintain a realistic result while achieving the desired level of skin smoothing.
 

Retouch multiple people

Body Skin Retouching works on a per-person basis. When multiple people are detected in an image, adjustments are stored and applied individually for each person.

This allows different retouching settings to be used where needed.

Face detection requirements

Although the adjustment affects body skin, a visible face is required. Capture One identifies people through face detection and stores retouching adjustments for each detected person.

If a face cannot be detected, Body Skin Retouching may not be available for that subject.
 

Tips for natural-looking results

For the most realistic results:

• Use moderate adjustment values.
• Retain sufficient texture to preserve skin detail.
• Review the image at different zoom levels.
• Apply different adjustments to each person when necessary.
   

Requirements and limitations

• Designed for portrait, fashion, and wedding photography.
• Requires a visible face.
• Supports multiple people in the same image.
• Adjustments can be copied between images.
• Adjustments can be included in Styles.
• Adjustments can be applied during tethered capture.
• Mask editing functionality may be expanded in a future service release.