It's nice to have several skin texture fills to choose from, in case you don't like the default texture applied to your image. The variety and number of sliders available gives you a good range of control, such as allowing you to choose different settings for the right and left eye and the upper and lower lip. In the next version, I hope the skin and hair detection brushes will have a hardness setting, and adjusting the selected areas will work more like the Refine Edge feature in Photoshop. Often, editing the skin area with the Restore Brush (another fun and useful feature) will fix these, but again, use a light touch. Some adjustments like Skin Smoothing can flatten out the features of the face or add a strange glow or artifacts around the edges. So, unless you want all your subjects to have that Barbie-doll look, it's best to use a light touch. I'll caution that images can go very quickly from nice to overdone. The Skin Smoothing Controls are easy to use and provide nice results, and the Touch-Up Brush works much like the Healing Brush in Photoshop for targeted "zapping" of flaws missed by the sliders. Used judiciously, the Face Sculpt section can dramatically improve the shape of a face, making it slimmer or trimming down a prominent nose. I would prefer for Face Sculpt to be off by default, since occasionally, even the small tweaks can look strange, especially on a model whose face is turned. Theoretically, you could end here and save out your image with much more even skin in just a couple of clicks, but there are eight categories of sliders you can use to dial in just the right adjustments for your image. It also automatically applies some face sculpting (mainly slimming of the face).
PORTRAITPRO STUDIO 11 PROFESSIONAL
When you've let it know whether the detected face is female, male, adult or child, Portrait Professional queues up an "after" next to the "before" with a basic (natural) preset applied. But then again, this is a tool for saving time, not for nitpicky accuracy. There's a warning not to try to be too accurate-which goes against my nature I would actually prefer all the points to have adjustable handles, as in Adobe products, so I could twist them to perfection.
Sometimes it's spot on and sometimes you need to tweak where the purple marker lines end up. Portrait Professional has a pretty nifty face and feature detector that picks up on the faces in your image and detects where the eyes, nose, and mouth are (even whether the mouth is open or closed). I've had the opportunity to play with the newest version of Portrait Professional Studio 64 Edition by Anthropics Technology Ltd., and it's been great fun. Professional retouching in Photoshop can take hours and years of experience to do it well.
But do you know when I don't like retouching portraits in Photoshop? When the deadline is near and I've just received a folder chockfull of images that need to be cleaned up. I adore perfecting the eyes, and I have picked up an arsenal of cool tricks over the years from retouching pros such as Scott Kelby and David Cuerdon. I love zooming in to 500% and zapping every blemish and oversized pore of a model's skin with the Healing Brush. I find retouching portraits in Photoshop very Zen. Portrait Retouching Plug-In for Photoshop
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