Frequently asked questions

No. The AI models run on your own computer through a small local service that the installer sets up. Photoshop talks to it over your machine's loopback connection only; nothing is sent to the internet.

Never. Every tool adds new, named layers with masks inside an OpenRetouch group, and every run is a single undo step. Your original pixels are never changed.

Adobe Photoshop 2024 (25.0) or newer on Windows 10/11 with an NVIDIA GPU (4 GB+ VRAM recommended), or macOS on Apple Silicon. 8 and 16-bit RGB documents are supported.

Yes. Machine-learning models find faces, landmarks, skin, the person and the backdrop; proven retouching techniques — frequency separation, dodge & burn with Curves, texture-preserving healing — do the edit, so results stay natural and editable.

Both run in Photoshop on your own computer. OpenRetouch puts all tools in one panel with Apply all and batch processing, returns every result as editable masked layers, and has a free tier. Retouch4me sells separate plugins per task. See the comparison page for details.

Yes. Batch mode retouches every open document, or every image in a folder and saves layered PSDs to an output folder — your originals are never overwritten.

Yes. With Pro, Heal, Dodge & Burn, Skin Tone and Mattify also cover neck, shoulders, arms and legs, even when clothing separates them from the face.