Portrait Professional Reviews

5 Stars

Editors Choice award.

We have to admit we were skeptical. We've messed around in Photoshop before and had no idea what we were doing. Portrait Professional promised to be easy, but how easy could it be? Surely it would require some kind of photo-editing skills, right? Wrong.

It doesn't really get any easier than this. Open a photo, and the program guides you though the process of adjusting a series of outlines over the subject's facial features. Even this doesn't have to be exact. Once you've done this, the program works its magic, and you're done.

We are not exaggerating when we say that anyone could use this program.

Pro Review: Portrait Professional v9.0

Not only does this program retouch the photograph, it slightly restructures the face giving it a more pleasing appearance. While most of us would need an array of tools, filters and adjustments to accomplish all this in Photoshop, Portrait Professional v9.0 can do this extremely complex task with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Portrait Professional v9.0 seems too good to be true, but it’s actually extremely easy to use and streamlines workflow in a way that saves a tremendous amount of time.

Although the application uses a set of complex algorithms to define the changes, the steps you are required to perform for each portrait are simple and straightforward.

Overall, this application is one I would use with all my portraits. In most cases, the automated retouching and face reshaping needed no further adjustment. The extensive set of effective tools to fine-tune each aspect make it easy to correct anything that doesn’t look quit right. This program encompasses all that is required to create a completely retouched image in a condensed and easy to use interface.

Portrait Professional makes magazine-quality results almost ridiculously easy to achieve: users don’t need to know anything about photo retouching.

Easy and effective portrait retouching for beginners or experts. Although the hard stuff is taken care of by the software itself, the final result is very much under the user’s control. Each adjustment can be individually tweaked using simple sliders, grouped into handy categories.

Portrait Professional 9 is a rare program, simultaneously powerful and easy to use.

Verdict:
A genuinely useful tool for those interested in creating portraits.

5 stars, and a "buy it!" recommendation.

Anthropics Technology, maker of the world-leading Portrait Professional photo-editing software, is delighted to announce that it has been selected in the 2009 Tech Media Invest Top 100 list, as revealed in the Guardian newspaper, recognising the hottest emerging and most innovative companies in the technology and media industries.

Pros: Ease of use. No learning curve. Ability to 'tweak' images after default changes applied.

Cons: For this price, nothing, so far.

Summary: I shoot a lot of teenagers for school portraits and there are usually a fair amount of skin blemishes to clean up; the auto skin smoothing in this software really saves a lot of time.

No Photoshop skills required. Results look natural. Interface is intuitive to use. For an inexpensive program, it can really improve your portrait subjects and doesn't require Adobe Photoshop. The only skill you need is an aesthetic sense to keep you from going overboard with your beautifying.

Portrait Professional is a comprehensive tool that does one thing and does it very well - it edits portraits to your heart's content. I warmed up to this application very quickly because it's simple, it works, and although there is a multitude of features, it doesn't take long to get a handle on it. Oh yeah, it's fun too.

4.5 out of 5 stars

Portrait Professional is definitely a great program, easy to use and extremely efficient, you should try it!

original text in Italian:
Portrait Professional è, in definitiva, un programma di grande qualità, semplice da utilizzare ed estremamente efficace, assolutamente da provare!

rating: 9.5 out of 10

Astonishing results for very little effort. Five out of five star rating.

Professional-looking results can be achieved in minutes with this software. It's powerful enough for real work, with a price low enough to make it worth buying just for fun.

Provides very fine editing control for portrait photography.

"money well spent"

The truly surprising thing about Portrait Professional is not that it works, but that it works so well. As with all retouching, you need to know how much is too much and where to draw the line, but that's really about all you need to know.

An operator with very little skill or experience would have no trouble using it to make genuine improvements to portraits that you could only achieve in Photoshop if you really knew what you were doing. Even then, particularly where shape changes are involved, making the right selections and adjusting them would be the work of many minutes rather than just a few seconds.

Every once in a while you come across a piece of software that really stands out from the crowd. Portrait Professional not only stands out, but is head, shoulders and torso different.

Portrait Professional is simply the very best program available for enhancing photographs of people.

The latest version of the software has been enhanced by further training in human appearance, particularly on the 3/4 views. In response to feedback from fashion photographers it also includes further shape beautification modes, such as neck lengthening.

Portrait Professional 8 also offers automatic hair recolouring, hair thickening and hair smoothing in the editing stage. It has similar enhancements for eyes and mouths. Iris colour, iris saturation, whiteness of the eye, pupil colour, and the sharpness and size of each eye can be individually controlled by sliders.