Skin Smoothing Controls improve the appearance of the skin. Developed to particularly appeal to those photographers who retouch a high volume of photos.įace Sculpt Controls subtly reshape the face to beautify facial features. Adjust the size and strength of the brush with the sliders beside it.īatch Mode. The former paints over spots or blemishes in the skin that have not been eliminated automatically the latter restores them. Known as Saved Sliders or Presets depending on version, these are pre-loaded slider settings that have been determined to work best for a particular subject, for example to make a young woman look glamorous. Versions 13 and 14 were skipped the next version sold was 15. Major improvements included the ability to change the lighting on the face, improved feature enhancing, and in the Studio Max edition only, an automatic batch mode with the ability to automatically determine age and gender of each face. Version 12, released in March 2014, was rebranded PortraitPro.
Major improvements in version 11 (November 2012) included its automated face and feature finder, an improved handling of multiple faces within one session, and improved face contouring and slimming. In response to customer requests, version 10 had improved plugin support for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, a new child mode, and an enhance skin only mode.
Other improvements included the ability to handle profile views, a batch mode, and an intelligent touch up brush. Version 9 was the first version to offer ClearSkin skin improving technology and also to work as a standalone and as a Photoshop plugin. Version 8 improved face sculpting and slimming, user interface, color calibration and raw support in the Studio version. Version 6 was the first version to run without needing a connection to a web server. It required a web server to process the image. Portrait Professional started at version 4. Portrait Professional was originally known as My Perfect Picture. It is also available as a Photoshop plugin. The Studio editions do the above and additionally handle raw files, 16 bit per color component TIFF files and color profiles. One of the unique, but controversial abilities is automatically reshaping the face to fit a model of beauty. Rather than using brushes alone as a traditional image editor does, the user of Portrait Professional first describes where the face is in the picture, then most of the transformations are done through sliders.
PortraitPro, PortraitPro Studio, and PortraitPro Studio Max are image editors for Windows and Mac OS X, specifically targeted at editing portrait photographs. The just-previous version, 12, was released in March 2014. The current software, version 15, was released September 16, 2015, skipping versions 13 and 14. Developed by Anthropics Technology Ltd and first released in July 2006, it has been in continuous development ever since.
Portrait Professional or Portrait Pro is a Windows and Mac based portrait imaging enhancement software targeted at professional and keen amateur photographers.