Re: Portrait Professional 11 Free Download Cracked
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Portrait Professional or PortraitPro is a portrait photography retouching software developed by Anthropics Technology and initially released in 2006. It automates the photo editing process with algorithms that manipulate facial features, remove skin imperfections, alter colors and tone, replace the background, and so on.[1] It is available as a standalone application, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and Aperture plug-ins on Windows and OS X systems.[2]
PortraitPro was released in 2006 by Anthropics Technology, a company founded in 1997 as the research branch of the UK National Film and Television School. The algorithms that allowed the software to identify facial features, assess the "attractiveness", and adjust the photo were developed in conjunction with researchers from Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Manchester University. The program initially required an active internet connection to calculate point data for face shaping, but moved to a standalone edition with version 6.[3]
PortraitPro 9 (2009) introduced the novel ClearSkin automated skin enhancer, which corrects skin defects, such as acne, blotchiness, roughness, wrinkles, age spots, and so on.[4] Version 10 (2012) added a specialized Child mode that applies enhancements suitable for the portraits of children.[5][6] In PortraitPro 12 (2014) the developers presented lighting and relighting effects based on a 3D model of the face built based on a 2D photo, and full optimization 64-bit systems, which provided a notable performance leap.[7]
In 2016, Anthropics Technology released PortraitPro Body, which employed the technology for body shape manipulation. It automatically identifies and mark-ups the body curves and position of the bones and allows the user to make adjustments to build, shape, and posture and use standard retouching tools to smooth the skin and remove blemishes. It was provided in standard standalone edition and studio edition, which adds plug-ins for Photoshop, Elements, and Lightroom.[8][9]
PortraitPro 17 introduced a background removal and replacement feature,[10] while version 18 added a brush that locally removes adjustments and edits for more complex and accurate work[11] In the following years, the developers added sky replacement tool and a library of sky styles, and made numerous enhancements for the existing automated and manual retouching tools.[12]
PortraitPro is available in Standard, Studio, and Studio Max editions. A basic standalone edition supports JPG and 24-bit TIFF files. Studio adds support for RAW and 48-bit coloc, conversion between color spaces and JPEG/TIFF embedded color profile support. It also enables batch editing. Studio Max is marketed as a professional tool with enhanced batch mode.[13] Studio and Studio Max editions also work as plug-ins[14] for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and Aperture.[15]
Versions
Portrait Professional 11 is available as a fast stand-alone application and also as a plug-in that integrates with Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop Elements. You get both with the Studio and Studio 64 versions. All three versions are compared in the table below, which also shows the discounted pricing that was available when this review was written.
The default setting for the workspace is to display the original portrait on the left of the screen and the enhanced version on the right with the tools panel ranged down the right side of the screen. You can modify the display by using the View Before And After and View After Only tabs above the picture and flip between the before and after views by holding down the Enter key.
All aspects of facial structure, colours and textures are adjustable, the majority with sliders that provide fine control. The tools panel contains the following adjustments:
1. The Face Sculpt Controls contains sliders for adjusting face shape, nose width, eye tilt and width, mouth shape, the plumpness of lips and the length of the neck. It also has a button for restoring the shape of glasses if they are distorted by other adjustments. These controls allow you to make subjects look slimmer
2. The Skin Smoothing Controls include a button that will show you the area that will be adjusted by masking it in mauve, as shown below. Clicking on the View/Edit Skin Area button lets you adjust the masked area with brushes that can extend it or cut it back.
Other tools in the palette are provided for spot removal, detecting and removing thin wrinkles, fine shadows, pores and shine as well as smoothing skin and adjusting skin texture. A drop-down menu of 10 skin types is provided for the latter.
6. Skin Lighting Controls cover adjustments for the contours of the cheekbones as well as sliders for tweaking shadows, contrast and highlights. The Relight slider is for correcting unsatisfactory lighting on the face.
7. The Hair Controls include a Hair Recolour panel that is accessed with a click and shows samples of different options. The change is applied with an overlay and may not work as expected if you make a substantial adjustment to the original colour.
Although mainly designed for use on faces, Portrait Professional can also be used on portraits that include other parts of the body, right up to full-body shots. For such images, you should use the skin area tools to identify areas that will require skin enhancements.
Portrait Professional Plug-in
The Studio editions of Portrait Professional include a plug-in the can be launched from Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop Elements to enhance an image that is being worked upon. In Photoshop it is accessed by selecting Filter > Anthropics > Portrait Professional, which transfers the file to Portrait Professional.
When used in this way, the only command in the File menu is Save & Return because once the image has been enhanced in Portrait Professional, you should return to the original editor. The crop tool is not available in plug-in mode because the original editor expects the image to remain the same size after enhancement.
A visit to the Portrait Professional website allows you to download a free trial, view video demonstrations and tutorials and participate in the product forums. You can also download user manuals (Windows and Mac) from the support page at
And please - No discussions about how you can do the same thing with surface blur and manual photoshop editing...We all know that. I'm interested in pros who have actually used these tools. I own portrait professional and Portraiture and will comment on them later. I downloaded the trial of portrait plus but haven't had time to fool around with it.
By the way, Frank Doorhof ( ) uses portrait professional and his philosophy is that yes, he can do a better job if he has 4-12 hours to spend hand editing, healing, contouring, etc., but many times you do not have that kind of time...
Imagenomics' Portraiture is fast and easy, but it has a strong tendency to produce artificially smooth skin. To minimize this, I usually place the Fine and Medium Smoothness sliders far to the left, and even then, I sometimes have to add "film grain" in CS5. It has no blemish brush, which is a major deficiency, IMO.
OnOne's Perfect Portrait is somewhat slow and clunky on my aging Mac, but it is the most powerful of the programs that I have tried and produces the best results, as well. I especially like the blemish brush, which, by setting the opacity at about 30%, can produce very pleasing, realistic looking skin. It also has tools for adding skin texture and for enhancing eyes and mouths.
So, in my workflow, when I want a fast and basic touchup, I usually go with Portraiture, but when I want better, more finely tuned results, I reach for Perfect Portrait. I will be interested in hearing from others who have experience with portraiture software.
I use Imagenomic's Portraiture extensively. Tried Portrait Professional trial once years ago. It seemed it was mostly about face "shaping", with skin smoothing a second priority. Never tried the Acrasoft product. Also have extensive experience with the Photoshop bluring, degrunging, dodge&burn, and frequency separation techniques.
I find Portraiture can do a better job and quicker than other tools and techniques. But you have to learn how to use it. The controls are critical. And often, one set of controls is not adequate. Need to do multiple passes on layers, one for the heavy lifting and one for the light adjustments. Example, the "default" may not be enough for some blemishes, but way too much for relatively clean areas. But usually, I clean major blemishes with healing/cloning first.
I don't think the auto masking works very well, so I usually run it on a separate layer with auto masking off, and then use a photoshop mask to paint in the effect. That manual mask painting is usually pretty quick, just a soft round brush, 100% for heavy areas, something less for light areas, avoiding eyes, lips, hairline, nose holes, etc. Accurate edges are not that critical. If you stray into a boundry it's no big deal.
I use Portrait Pro but I ALWAYS turn off face sculpting AND I manually adjust everything and turn off what I dont use. It can look COMEPLETELY overdone (like anything), or you can use it for some really nice subtleties.
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also note that portrait pro has a horrible bug with the spot removal tool. You have to turn this off or else you can end up with jpeg-like blotchyness. For a long time, they denied they could see this but I finally sent them detailed before and after pictures along with another photographer who did the same thing and they acknowledged it was a bug and said it would hopefully make the list for version 11.
I have portrait professional and really love it plus I got a great price on the Studio Version. I didn't care for Portraiture plus it is really expensive. I haven't tired the other one you mentioned but will give it a try soon to see how it works.
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