Portrait Professional Reviews

Portrait Professional Studio 10 is a comprehensive, fast
and easy to use software. Its capabilities are almost endless
and the configuration can be customized to extend its versatility.

Excellent price/quality relationship.
5/5 stars

In the end, perhaps the most important feature of PP10 is its ability to save time. Many pro photographers I know are spending time retouching when they should be shooting or marketing. I highly recommend this software for professionals and advanced amateurs who photograph people. - by Steve Bedell

What is great about this software is that little time and virtually no experience are needed to enhance portraits through its easy-to-use interface and simple process.

It's hard to deny this program's effectiveness at making people look better without losing their essential character. The strength of the effect is down to you - the default settings are subtle and can be wound back further for a more natural look..

I remain a believer in Portrait Professional, both for its ease of use and the quality of the results. For new users the learning curve is minimal, and experienced users will appreciate the changes and improvements in version 10. - by Stan Sholik

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Retouching made easy for anyone.

The program’s clean, intuitive interface helps make fixing faces a breeze.

"Being a perfectionist, I find myself spending a huge amount of time editing my images. Portrait Professional allows me to get there faster, with more control on the fine facial details of my subjects." Kim van Haalen

If you do not own Portrait Professional and you are operating in the social sector, then you should seriously consider buying it, it is impossible to believe that you would not recoup your outlay in a short time.

The program is now 64-bit compatible and does seem to have studied well under the tuition of the programmers; it’s getting better all the time as the song goes!

If you're passionate about portraits and are longing for some imaging software to help improve and speed up your workflow with a few simple clicks, Portrait Professional (PP) 10 might be just what you're looking for.

Everyone benefits from a good clean round and brush-up don't they? And your clients are starting to demand it, yes? The trouble is you're really slow in Photoshop and haven't got much further than guesswork. Ring any bells? Portrait Professional Pro could be the answer to your prayers ...

A smart way to touch up your people pictures.

For portrait shots that sometimes look less than perfect, you can make a dramatic improvement in just a few minutes with the latest version of Portrait Professional.

Its power and results are perfect for those who don't want to spend hours in Photoshop.

A great retouching program that offers quick and easy results, as well as more advanced editing options.

Portrait Professional wlll help improve your subjects' looks no matter how much of a novice you are. It's easy to use, smooths skin and blemishes quickly, and can even reshape faces.

There's a version of Portrait Professional that will suit just about any level of user and version 10 is the best incarnation to date. We found that it was easy to use, highly intuitive and new features including the ClearSkin option, plus intelligent skin defect and removal brushes are all highly potent tools.There's also an excellent interface that makes the experience a positive one. It makes tricky editing fun too.

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Portrait Professional Studio Edition continues to impress with its remarkable retouching abilities, ease of use and low price - the latter of which being easily recouped within the first couple of jobs.

Great software that will allow you to improve your portrait shots with ease.

Remarkable retouching software that makes the process pain free.

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If you are keen on portrait photography I wouldn't even waste time downloading the trial, just go out and buy whichever version is best suited to your needs., version 9 or version 9/Studio you will never regret it and your friends will love you for it.

  5 out of 5 Rating

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I’m very impressed with the easy-to-follow workflow, the ability to undo and edit and the user-friendly interface. The results are excellent and success can be achieved in minutes.

I kept a little list of pros and cons next to me when I started using the program. After just a short time I was quite amazed at how lopsided the list was, with all the weight on the “pros” side. I timed myself and it took me less than a minute from opening the file to finishing the image.

PP9 is a retouching tool that can help anyone produce an enhanced version of their original image in a very short time. And it does a great job at it. I highly recommend this software for photographers at all levels.

Portrait Professional enhances people in the same way that good lighting and perfect makeup is used to make someone look more attractive. The software lets anyone look as good as a celebrity in a magazine.

Given an Editor's Pick Award

Portrait Professional is a one stop application for enhancing studio portraits. It combines tremendous power and versatility with unprecedented ease of use, allowing even the least technically minded photographer to produce stunning, impressive results in a few minutes rather than hours.

What’s truly extraordinary about Portrait Professional is its ease of use. A typical portrait takes less than five minutes to enhance, and the results are better than a skilled Photoshop User could achieve in an hour.

Portrait Professional is a dazzlingly clever piece of software that creates perfect portraits in five minutes. Every portrait photographer should check this out.

Pros:
Easy to use, dramatic results in minutes, fully customisable.

Cons:
None.

Verdict:
The fastest and most effective way to turn a routine portrait into a thing of beauty.

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A photographer’s secret weapon – Portrait Professional 9

Portrait Professional 9 from Anthropics pushes the boundaries further, allowing one to enhance portraits so easily it’s almost ridiculous. It can definitely turn a few hours of retouching into a 10 minute play time and if used sparingly it can do wonders.

The downsides? Well, if everybody get their hand on it, no Facebook pic will remain untouched. God help us all.

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.

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.

The great news is that with Portrait Professional I can save time, create fantastic images with wonderful skin tones, and reshape the structure of the face including width of the eyes, shape of the jaw, length of the neck, and even change eye color if the mood strikes me.

This is a program that works extremely well and it’s fun and easy to use. Portrait Professional provides great time savings and a well-done retouching option. However, Portrait Professional offers much more than just the skin retouching, and I find the face sculpting to be an invaluable addition to my set of tools.

I love this program and will be using it on all of my portraits. It’s easy and fun to use, and gives me options that make my images better and my clients happier.

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 quite 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.

Transform your portraits into stunning, professional-standard images.

Portrait Professional is a program with a powerful engine that enables you to enhance and sculpt the models in portraits.

The question is — why not use Photoshop instead of a plug-in like Portrait Professional? One reason is the precision and simplicity of the software, which makes it a pleasure to use.

The changes made using the sliders are convincingly blended together, and the attention to detail is tremendous. Easy to follow interface. Vast array of adjustment sliders. Great end results.

Verdict:
Portraits can take on a new face with this easy-to-use plug-in/standalone software.

Best value award – 3 out of 3 stars rating

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!

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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.