On 18/01/2011 9:09 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-01-17 11:00 AM, Jens wrote:
Anyone here using Portrait Professional?
This is software, that's affordable, easy to use and quite
impressive, actually.
I guess it's not "Come il fout" or PC these days. Nevertheless
software like this may be quite commonly used, although rarely spoken
of :-)
http://www.planfoto.dk/home/Tests/Portrait_Professional/testimage.htm
Regards
Jens
Jens, by now you can see why such things are rarely spoken of in this
venue. I would call it "Don't-ask-don't-tell-ware". ;-)
I recommend that you take a good look at Imagenomic Portraiture:
http://www.imagenomic.com/pt.aspx
While the prices are higher than Portrait Pro and some of the others
you've probably seen, the quality of this software is extremely high.
Portraiture goes to a great deal of trouble to preserve natural skin
detail, pores, fine hairs, etc, while minimizing blemishes, lines, and
blotchiness. If you do a careful job of preparing the portrait with a
first pass to remove acne scars, reduce under-eye shadow and such,
Portraiture will give you very clean natural looking skin without that
blurred, plastic look that gives touching-up such a bad reputation.
Actually, if you *want* the plastic look it can do it. Just pull all
the sliders up to 11 and you'll get the fashion/glamour mannequin
look. They provide presets to do things like overexpose and
de-saturate skin so it looks like those 1980's Robert Palmer videos.
What I generally do is use Portraiture as a Photoshop filter and have
it produce its results in a new layer. I then reduce the opacity of
that layer so that some of the original unretouched image shows
through to improve the naturalness. I also use it with fairly
un-aggressive settings unless requested otherwise.
Have fun!
-bmw
I was going to reply to this thread, but you just did it for me.
I had a look at Portrait Pro a while back and decided it wasn't for me.
I was able to make it do what I wanted, but it was far too much trouble
to map facial features for the program given the amount of portraiture I
was doing and the time it would take to do it.
William Robb
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