Everyone wondering about Portrait Professional

[Blake.Oney]

Doz, I believe said that he used this program and then a bunch of topics started popping up about it. None that I have seen were using an ideal subject for an example. My mom wanted me to make her a photo for facebook so I figured it was a good opportunity to show what it does with a subject you would want to use it on. My mom would probably destroy me if she knew I was doing this.

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After:

I took it a little further than I normally would just to show the effect, but there it is for anyone who was wondering about it. It's a pretty neat program, but it's not totally necessary. The only real reason that I use it at all is because I'm lazy and I hate the process of skin smoothing in PS. This does it fairly accurately and it is a FAST process.

 

[phiya]

That's neat blake, thanks. I imagine if you were doing a bunch of edits it would make the process a lot quicker, no?

 

[Blake.Oney]

It would, but you'd still be doing one photo at a time. I'd say 90% of the process is setting up the parameters around the face and different areas of the face. Then you go into sliders that do the reshaping and smoothing.

 

[Blake.Oney]

Yea. Download the free trial and see what you think. Their examples are waaaayyyy overdone. Mine is too, but not like that. I never use it like I did here. I don't like skin smoothing. The most I usually do is remove blemishes and stuff in LR, but for the few times I do want skin smoothing I use that (to a much lesser extent than above) because it's quick and easier than doing it in PS.

 

[Tbini87]

Can you fix the mascara on her left eyelashes? I think overall it looks nice, but the eye makeup keeps throwing me off.

 

[Dominantly]

I prefer the first photo. It looks more human/natural vice animated.