still-image-retouching-finishing

still-image-retouching-finishing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calesthio/generative-media-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (7,305 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finishing existing still images, from RAW or rendered files through colour correction, retouching, export, and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Developing photos, repairing defects, masking and compositing, preparing print or web versions, managing metadata, and creating reviewed image variants.
Why use it?
It helps keep edits reversible, colours suitable for their destination, retouching truthful to the genre, and delivered files consistent and documented.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Developing photos, repairing defects, masking and compositing, preparing print or web versions, managing metadata, and creating reviewed image variants.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/calesthio/generative-media-skills/still-image-retouching-finishing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add calesthio/generative-media-skills --skill still-image-retouching-finishing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/calesthio/generative-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00130 $0.07305
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.03653
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.01461
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00730

Measured 12d ago against content hash eb609ddab365, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

still-image-retouching-finishing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/production/post-production/still-image-retouching-finishing/SKILL.md · 404 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 404 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Still Image Retouching and Finishing

This skill is for finishing existing still images. It assumes there is a captured, scanned, rendered, or composited source image and that the agent's job is to make production decisions about development, retouching, color, metadata, output, and review. It is tool-agnostic: Lightroom, Camera Raw, Capture One, Darktable, RawTherapee, Affinity Photo, Photoshop, GIMP, command-line processors, DAM systems, RIP software, and lab portals are possible instruments, but the skill's decisions are about craft and delivery rather than any one vendor.

Use it for:

  • RAW intake, rendered-file intake, selects, versioning, sidecars, and handoff notes.
  • Nondestructive development: exposure, white balance, tone mapping, lens corrections, local masks, snapshots, proof copies, layers, smart objects, adjustment stacks, and reversible repair.
  • Color-managed finishing: working spaces, embedded profiles, monitor profiling, ICC soft proofing, rendering intents, output profiles, print proofing, and web/social conversions.
  • Retouching: dust, sensor spots, blemishes, flyaways, fabric wrinkles, product cleanup, architecture perspective, food freshness, documentary limits, compositing cleanup, and client/legal review.
  • Generative fill or AI repair decisions only as post-production interventions on existing stills, including disclosure, provenance, and rights notes.
  • Sharpening, noise reduction, resampling, crop variants, batch consistency, metadata, accessibility metadata, export recipes, QA, and archive/delivery packages.

Do not use it for:

  • Generating new images from prompts as the primary task.
  • Choosing or integrating image-generation APIs.
  • Video color grading, motion retouching, VFX shot work, or frame-by-frame video finishing.
  • Campaign concepting, art direction, casting, styling, media buying, or platform growth strategy except where those affect still-image finishing constraints.

Grounded Facts

These are documented facts, not taste preferences.

Read the full file on GitHub · 404 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 404 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A eb609ddab365

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still-image-retouching-finishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository calesthio/generative-media-skills (170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 7,305 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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