The Edge of Somewhere Podcast

Cleaning Pixels: How I Became a Retoucher (and Why My OCD Thinks It’s Hilarious)

You know what’s hilarious? A retoucher with OCD. I’m a photo retoucher, which means I work in Photoshop all day making people, products, or really anything look better. I stare at pixels in skin, fabric, and backgrounds with intense focus, aligning everything so it looks like nobody even touched the image. That’s the whole job—make it clean enough that all you want to do is focus on whatever the product is, natural enough that you don’t even realize a retoucher was there in the first place. And I have OCD. So I literally clean photos all day for a living. The irony is not lost on me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heathermonks.substack.com/subscribe [https://heathermonks.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]