Portrait Professional 10

I was messing with focal lenghts today and did some quickie self portraits. Since I put them into my computer I thought I'd mess with Portrait Pro 10 since I hadn't really given it much of a go since I did the upgrade.

What I noticed first off is that even with the default settings when you do the ligning up the crosshairs thing, it doesn't look so much like plastic. Then I slid the master slider down from the default setting which was 35 and brought it down to 12 and it looked pretty good except the eyes were just a little bit over sharp and bright to look real. So I went to that slider and pulled the master for eyes down a little and I was literally done. So I did another photo, this looks a lot nicer even for just general people shots that I wouldn't normally go to a lot of trouble processing, probably less than 5 minutes per shot, I'm liking this.

The thing I do not like about PP is that it is very poor at figuring out what is skin and what is not.

The "other" software, Portraiture is MUCH better...actually never misses.

Yes, the default values seemed pretty strong to me in all versions that I've had.

The first thing I turn off is sculpting. Have still to save that as custom in v.10.

Agree with the points about not knowing where skin starts and ends but you can manually select area's that have been missed with the view/edit skin selection button in the panel on the right.

True, but one buys a pluging to save time... the more time, the better

bohdank wrote in post #11867785
True, but one buys a pluging to save time... the more time, the better

Agreed

Portrait professional has provided lots of tools to allow you to get the look that you want. Painting in the area of what should be skin takes a few seconds. Plug ins are great but, imo, they are not supposed to a one click solution. They are are, and so is PP, a great time saver but the user still has to think for themselves.

There are lots of plug ins out there and which one is the right one is a matter of opinion. The one that is right for you is the one that you find good results with and that you learn to master its capabilities.

ssim wrote in post #11868516
Portrait professional has provided lots of tools to allow you to get the look that you want. Painting in the area of what should be skin takes a few seconds. Plug ins are great but, imo, they are not supposed to a one click solution. They are are, and so is PP, a great time saver but the user still has to think for themselves.

There are lots of plug ins out there and which one is the right one is a matter of opinion. The one that is right for you is the one that you find good results with and that you learn to master its capabilities.

Winner!