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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]
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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I just tried the Portrait Plus and this is a neat software. Only takes seconds if you have a lot of faces to fix but I couldn't believe the price of 179.00 and that is a sales price. Has it ever gone down lower to around 100.00? I would like to have it but not for 200.00 I don't.
Portrait Professional. Over soften but then work on the mask produced to improve the selection of areas to soften or not soften then reduce the opacity until you get the final result that will show softness without eliminating all the skin texture.
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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Yes you have to be careful. The default settings have face sculpting turned on. While it might - in some cases - make the face more attractive I find that it is usually better to turn these controls off (unless there is a very special problem/issue).
Note that if you apply Portrait Professional on a separate layer, turning this face sculpting feature off allows one to adjust opacity once the revisions are brought back into the editting program (say Photoshop, etc). This allows you to make further adjustments as subtle as you desire. Obviously if you alter the shape of the face this would not be possible.
Thanks Gord. I bought the Studio edition to be able to work from my RAW files. I am pleased with the result (below) even though I find it did not handle the Shine as well as I would've liked and the touch up brush did not handle a little "defect" on the upper lip.
I find that you often need more than one software program if you want to optimize your results. You can run your image through Photoshop before and/or after using a software program like Portrait Professional (PP) to better clear up specific details. In particular, I find lips, etc can often use a little extra touchup in Photoshop.
The reason I bought 'portrait+' is that I wanted to add 'eyes, lips, makeup' to the equation which is something that portraiture doesnt address. Portrait+ produces really good results along the lines of 'I didnt know that you had edited it' appearance that you can achieve in portraiture.
Currently I think Portrait+ is the most advanced of all programs. It can really do a lot with simply one click. But its also easy to overdo it, since it alters so much that the model probably won't recognize his-/herself anymore. Especially if you enable shaping. But... if you don't care about this and you just want beautiful pictures, it produces by far the best results with only a few clicks.
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