Portrait Profesional?

[ldelacruz]

Has anyone ever used Portrait Profesional? If so what do you think? They make it seem that the masking is easy.

http://www.portraitprofessional.com/gallery/?p=0

[AndrewCCM]

I have used it since it was in beta. To be honest, it works quite well....but for a long time you had to be connected to the Internet in order for it to process the image. They removed that limitation on their last release and it does work well. My biggest issue with it is the fact that it's not integrated into my workflow. It's a stand-alone one at a time manual process.
Portraiture works better from a workflow standpoint, but Portrait Professional is much more powerful.


HOWEVER... It certainly can produce good results if not over done...

Hope this helps.

[ldelacruz]

It does help, thanks.

[DigitalDiva]

I love it, I get more compliments on our portraits when I use it. We did an Easter shoot at our church where they gave away a portrait to every family and I still here about how that's the best portrait they've ever taken.

[ldelacruz]

Thanks Dora can you share an example?

[DigitalDiva]

Lonnie, somebody did a great tutorial on here on portraits and they use this plug-in, I can't recall it right now but I do remember that they run smart sharpen set at .4 after running portrait. My work flow on the Easter portraits was to copy/ unsharp mask on 1st, portrait on copy then smart sharpen. Then I laye rmasked copy brushed over the eyes, made smile brighter and whiter then flattened. Copied again and used liquefy where needed.
I will say that portrait works best on "more mature" light skin. On darker skin I had to fade it back and not run the smart sharpen. I made and action for the Easter job that worked on the majority of the pictures.
I hope you can see the difference the plugin made.
Original Portraiture
Original
Portraiture

Original

Portraiture

[ldelacruz]

Wow!!! That is good.

I have seen their add every month for a year and for some reason today I thought I would look at their site and they had some really good before and afters. They also say it is as easy as moving sliders.

[terryturner]

Lonnie

While you're comparing, download the free trial of portraiture so you can compare the two. It also works quite well.

Terry

[ldelacruz]

Originally Posted by terryturner

Lonnie

While you're comparing, download the free trial of portraiture so you can compare the two. It also works quite well.

Terry

Thank you sir.

[DigitalDiva]

Oh, Lonnie I'm so sorry I should have read this more closely, the one I have is portraiture the one Terry recommended. -Dora

[AndrewCCM]

Portrait Professional allows for a lot of additional things like reshaping of features (i.e., widening eyes, changing jaw lines, etc...) It also does eye and teeth whitening among other things that Portraiture does not do. For strictly facial smoothing, Portraiture works pretty darn well and is a PS plugin.

[Cajungaltx]

Lonnie,
I am another big portraiture fan - it cuts down on work flow TREMENDOUSLY! And does a fabulous job.

I'm including some samples to show you:

SOOC (sharpened/resized for web)

Default Setting of Portraiture

Normal Setting

High Setting


Glamour:


There are other settings, like tone, high key, low key, etc -

I have it set so that it's a mask/new layer, and I always dial down the opacity of the layer so that it doens't look 'plastic' -

It's a plug in WELL worth the price you pay for it.

[lextalionis]

Use it and like it...esp. because of the quick learning curve, fast results, and many many fine tune adjustments...when I use it I tune it way down and it saves me a tone of time.

-Roy

[photo101]

Has anyone used this with RAW files and premium software? Just curious how everyone uses it in their workflow. I use Photoshop, so I would like feedback from those using the same. I read it can be used as a stand alone. Is it easier to use as plug-in in Photoshop? Trying to figure it all out before purchasing. Thanks!!!

Dayna

[Cajungaltx]

Originally Posted by photo101

Has anyone used this with RAW files and premium software? Just curious how everyone uses it in their workflow. I use Photoshop, so I would like feedback from those using the same. I read it can be used as a stand alone. Is it easier to use as plug-in in Photoshop? Trying to figure it all out before purchasing. Thanks!!!

Dayna

Are you talking about Portrait Professional, or Imagenomic's Portraiture.

The 'title' of the post is discussing one plug in, but the main discussions in this post have actually been about Portraiture.