New photo - Portrait Pro 15

Granddad · Dec 21, 2016

Following on from yesterday's thread (Old Photo - Portrait Pro 15) I managed to persuade Granny to come in from playing mud pies in the garden and pose for a headshot without a trace of make-up on. As a lady of a certain age who is drawing her state pension this was brave. It was even braver to allow me to post the "before" shot along with the others.
#1 is untouched (apart from cropping and some minor adjustments in LR)
#2 is after Portrait Pro 15 using ONLY the new make-up controls + eye sharpening. I kept it light, if she's been wearing her pearls and best bib and tucker I could have made the make-up to match (my evaluation is that the eyebrow pencil tool needs more work, Granny hardly has any eyebrows left so the ability to add more than just shading would be good).
#3 is with a few extra PP15 adjustments to lighting and skin softening... which is how she looks to me all the time.

Overall assessment - I like it. I think the make-up tools are going to be a really useful addition.

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When using PP my motto is "Keep it recognisable and keep it credible!"

tirediron · Dec 21, 2016

Nicely done. That looks like it works
Rather better than I would have expected. Gran's look does seem to say, "You owe me for this buster!"

Rick50 · Dec 21, 2016

I'm very impressed. The background is well done. I would not have expected this good of a result using only one light. And the Portrait Pro work looks real good.

Granddad · Dec 21, 2016

tirediron said:
Nicely done. That looks like it works
Rather better than I would have expected. Gran's look does seem to say, "You owe me for this buster!"

It does, I was pleasantly surprised ... and I DO!!

Rick50 said:
I'm very impressed. The background is well done. I would not have expected this good of a result using only one light. And the Portrait Pro work looks real good.

One strobe camera left and a reflector + daylight through the window camera right. Thanks, I'm pleased with it.

...Now I'm going to need a make-up class! :biglaugh:

Derrel · Dec 21, 2016

Wow, works great. None of that "sliders to 11!" nonsense here.

Granddad · Dec 22, 2016

Derrel said:
Wow, works great. None of that "sliders to 11!" nonsense here.

Slider factor 11? Aye, aye Cap'n! :biglaugh:

Botox canon on annihilate, facelift shields on maximum.... Execute! :gun:

Derrel · Dec 22, 2016

Well it's almost an hour after midnight here on the West Coast and what a surprise to see this. Actually quite surprised to see what this software can do. What an age we live in.

Granddad · Dec 22, 2016

I set facers to stun!

Donde · Dec 22, 2016

Good results. Looks like a fun tool.

TrolleySwag · Dec 22, 2016

Looks like a nice tool

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Designer · Dec 22, 2016

Granddad said:
Slider factor 11? Aye, aye Cap'n! Botox canon on annihilate, facelift shields on maximum.... Execute!

wamason · Dec 22, 2016

She's beautiful. Great job with PP too. You're adjustments are spot on. Not too much and not too little.

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jcdeboever · Dec 22, 2016

Granddad said:
Derrel said:

Wow, works great. None of that "sliders to 11!" nonsense here.

Click to expand...

Slider factor 11? Aye, aye Cap'n! Botox canon on annihilate, facelift shields on maximum.... Execute!

Shoot, the wife might give you a little extra nookie for that shot....

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FITBMX · Dec 22, 2016

It does a really great job! Your photo looks great.
And that last one you did for fun looks surprisingly good, not realistic, but much better than I thought it would. That is quite the piece of software!