![]() My favorite tool here is the "moisten lips" function, which really adds that little bit of micro-contrast to the lips, making them look moist and healthy. It has tools for whitening and cleaning teeth, changing the hue of the lips, and sculpting the nose. The mouth and nose section is like the eyes section but for, well, the mouth and nose. If the AI gets it wrong, you can manually turn the eye off. With the power of AI, it can even tell when an eye is shut so you don't have anything affecting an eye that isn't actually there. This section also has sliders for sharpening just the eyes, whitening them, darkening pupils, brightening irises, and even changing eye colors. Have you ever spent 20 minutes trying to really clean up an eyeball? Well, Portrait Pro's "Eye" section makes this as easy as just moving a slider. If you want to add makeup to your shot, this is a nice, easy way to do so. It has sliders for lipstick, eyeshadow, blush, bronzer, and more. I don't use this tool often, as I usually hire makeup artists and don't want to mess with their work too much, but you can see an example below. The makeup tool is used for adding makeup to your shot. Skin Lighting and Coloring is probably my favorite feature, so it's getting its own section below. It's incredibly simple to do and works like a less laggy version of Photoshop's "Select and Mask." It's incredibly fast and lightweight, to be honest. If you find that the software is accidentally affecting your eyes or your backdrop, you can edit your skin mask with a brush and just a few clicks. ![]() I find that the texture slider works wonders with just a little bit. It re-adds texture if you've gotten your settings right where you want them, but the skin ends up a little too smooth. ![]() The texture tool is probably one that is a bit of a lifesaver. The remove pores and remove grease sliders can remove all sense of highlights in your image. This is a tool that is best used in moderation, especially the pore removal and remove grease tools. It has options like being able to adjust specifically around the eyes, removing pores, fine shadows, and more. The skin-smoothing option is powered by AI using Anthropics' ClearSkin 5 technology. Next, I'm going to go over the feature that is going to be the most used: skin-smoothing. The Lens Correction tool is also fantastic, as it actually uses 3D modeling to accurately distort (well, un-distort) your model's face. This Face Sculpt tab is also where the "expression" slider is held, where you can easily add a slight smile to your subject. If you look at the top, there is a Master Fade slider. This is present in almost all of the different sections of Portrait Pro, allowing you to dial back some options if you went too far without needing to go into each individual slider and dial it back. The Face Sculpt tool is similar to Photoshop's built-in liquefy tool however, I found it easier to use with slightly more options, including an option to restore the shape of glasses. I found most of the tools pretty self-explanatory however, most of the sliders are extremely powerful, so I rarely went above 30% for anything. I found the software almost eerily good at finding the face, and it only needed minor adjustments here and there. If the face outline doesn't perfectly match the face, you can manually move the anchor points around for a perfect fit. You can choose the gender of your subject and even add faces if your photograph has multiple people in it. As I said before, be sure to change your default from "Standard" to "Reset to Original." In the "before" tab, you can see the face(s) that Portrait Pro selected, as well as the specific mask it is using on the face. When you first open the plugin, you will be greeted with your image and a whole bunch of options on the right-hand side. As someone that is incredibly indecisive and will often do a lot of work, leave it for a while, and then come back with fresh eyes, being able to come back to where I left off is a godsend. As a plugin, Portrait Pro can also be used as a smart filter, allowing you to mask it in or go back and make some changes after you've already done work. Portrait Pro 19 can be used in two major ways: as a standalone program or as a plugin for Photoshop. One thing I would suggest you do when you open up the program is to go to "Presets -> Manage" and set "Reset to original" as the default otherwise, you will open up the image and find it a little over-retouched and have to set it to reset every time you open the program/plugin. Something else to keep in mind is that the default settings are far too strong, and in my opinion, less is more. As you can see, the image on the left, I only used Portrait Pro to retouch the shot, but the image on the right, I did a little bit extra: namely some frequency separation and some healing brush on her small blemishes.
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