#Portraitpro review professional

Having said that, anyone who shoots headshots, portraits or weddings for a living should consider adding Portrait Professional 11 to their workflow-if they haven’t already-because it’s bound to save you tons of time usually spent fiddling in Photoshop. (Unless your clients don’t mind a heavily processed, alien-celebrity simulacrum of themselves.) Don’t get me wrong: If you don’t overdo it with this powerful and helpful piece of software, you can make good portraits look even more stunning, which will likely make your clients very, very happy.īut go even just a little too far with Portrait Professional 11, and you could change how a person looks entirely, sometimes for better but usually for worse.

Portrait Professional from Anthropics Technology has been around since 2006 and is one of the easier portrait photography programs I’ve tried and also, potentially, one of the more dangerous. Ladies and gentlemen, one such app that fits the bill is called Portrait Professional and it’s now in version 11 with several new features. While I liked that action set a lot, I remarked that some photographers might prefer a fast stand-alone app or Photoshop plug-in instead of a group of actions for gussying up their portraits quickly.

#Portraitpro review pro

Lisa Maree Show, Australian Fashion Week, Sydney.Models getting ready backstage for Lisa Maree show.A few months ago in PDN, I reviewed a set of software actions from Totally Rad! called Pro Retouch 2, which offer a relatively easy way to retouch portraits in Photoshop. All removed in no time with Portrait Pro.

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The before shot shows shine from my speed light and also some minor skin blemishes on the models forehead. The portrait example I selected was of a fashion model backstage at Australian Fashion Week one year. Probably saved about 25 minutes in retouching time! This will be an invaluable tool for my corporate photography business and I look forward to doing some more reviews on the other features it has. Once the portrait was exported from Portrait Pro, I launched Photoshop just to add minor adjustments in under 5 minutes with the brush tool and the healing brush. I did use Portrait Pro’s touch up brush which allowed me to further remove skin blemishes and spots. There are also reshaping controls, make up controls and you can even change the lighting on the portrait after the photographic assignment. These adjustments can be further improved or reduced with the portrait improving sliders which I have so far not needed to use.

Once you run Portrait Pro through your desired portrait, the default settings come into action and work their magic on the individual skin blemishes, wrinkles and shine etc.

The amount of times I have used other portrait retouching software and not managed to maintain a natural look has cost me hours of time having to retouch in Photoshop.

The reason why I am so impressed with Portrait Pro 15 is because for the first time I have found the retouching results to be much more natural with over all skin textures. Portrait Pro 15 is made by Anthropics Technology, a software research and development company based in the UK. I found out about it from a media release sent direct to me from the developers. Just purchased Portrait Pro 15 and really impressed.