Remember how many steps you need to go through to completely retouch a single image:

◉ Skin cleansing from major imperfections.
◉ Smoothing skin tone, removing stains.
◉ Removal of extraneous shades from the skin
◉ Eye retouch
◉ Drawing a light-shadow drawing
◉ Create additional volume on the parts
◉ Enhancing contrast, sharpness, etc.

And this is far from an incomplete list of operations that need to be carried out. Depending on the complexity, one picture can take up to several hours. Since I do not always have time to sit on one photo for several hours, I began to look for ways to speed up this process.

A solution was found, rather quickly. I began to record the operations that I most often use in action and use them for further processing.

As a result, a whole collection appeared, which greatly simplified the retouching of photographs, and also saved a huge amount of time.

Of course, retouching is impossible to achieve fully automatic, if you want the result to be quantitative, so that if the operation doesn’t happen, it won’t be possible. However, this work can be minimized by automating the actions and conveniently setting up your workspace.