A Little Help

[msgsnapshot]

I hear “Portrait Professional” software is very good. Is this software user friendly and does it work? I’m not looking for the supermodel lay out but it would be nice, “sorry to all you pros out there for that statement”. But for now I guess I’m just looking for the easy way out, something easy to use. I do have CS3 and I’m ok with it, but it takes me for ever to retouch a portrait and when I’m done it looks like someone used a can of spray paint on my photo. Not very nice looking! So I trash it and hit “Ctrl Shift & L” keys and walk away. What to do?

[Mark_Cohran]

Imogenic's Portrait Pro is actually quite good and easy to use. It has a large number of control parameters that allow you to adjust the degree of smoothness, as well as other parameters, such as skin warmth, to your images. I've made it an integral part of my image processing work flow. It can't fix everything, but it's certainly an excellent tool in my arsenal. :)

[tfiorda]

Please excuse the correction Mark, but Imagenomic's product is Portraiture. Portrait Pro is by Anthropics Technologies.

Both do a good job and have their plusses and minusses. I personall use Portraiture and find it does most all of what I want to do to a file. I think Portrait Pro allows you to change a lot, such as space between eyes, jaw line, etc. Way too much for me.

As for msgsnapshot images looking like a can of spray paint was used, remember that a light touch is best when fixing people and you can always fade your last adjustment to make it look more natural. I really don't like the 'porceline doll' effect at all. Touchup is a skill that is learned. And questions and practice is how it is learned.

Keep at it, it'll come!

Tony...

[Mark_Cohran]

Please excuse the correction Mark, but Imagenomic's product is Portraiture. Portrait Pro is by Anthropics Technologies.

Both do a good job and have their plusses and minusses. I personall use Portraiture and find it does most all of what I want to do to a file. I think Portrait Pro allows you to change a lot, such as space between eyes, jaw line, etc. Way too much for me.

As for msgsnapshot images looking like a can of spray paint was used, remember that a light touch is best when fixing people and you can always fade your last adjustment to make it look more natural. I really don't like the 'porceline doll' effect at all. Touchup is a skill that is learned. And questions and practice is how it is learned.

Keep at it, it'll come!

Tony...

You're absolutely right. I was Batch Processing a bunch of files on Photoshop while writing that, and I couldn't check to see what the filter's name was while the batch was running. Still, I find Portraiture to be quite excellent at what it does. I haven't tried Portrait Pro, though.

[AxxisPhoto]

Imogenic's Portrait Pro is actually quite good and easy to use. It has a large number of control parameters that allow you to adjust the degree of smoothness, as well as other parameters, such as skin warmth, to your images. I've made it an integral part of my image processing work flow. It can't fix everything, but it's certainly an excellent tool in my arsenal. :)


+1 I recently added Portraiture to my RAW workflow and it's a great program!

[adam8080]

I haven't used Portraiture, but I do use Portrait Pro and have been very happy. It is very quick and easy to use.

[msgsnapshot]

Well thank you all for the information. It looks like,practice, practice, practice. And throw the spray paint away. :) I'm going to get one of the programs, from what you all say, I can't go wrong with eatherone. Again Thanks