Quick go at Portrait Professional...

[lextalionis]

The wife would kill me if she knew I posted these

Anyway, these examples are my first go at using Portrait Professional Max 6. Each pp literally only took 5 minutes or less. The process is very fast and I feel have good results. I particularly liked the ability to widen eyes (since the wife has "squinty" eyes). Very easy to over-do it with this app but toned down it works well. It reads my CR2 raw from my Canon 30D and outputs to 16bit tiff. Just thrown together to share with the community. These were very impromptu shots...I came in from work and just grabbed the wife for the shoots. She kept nagging about not being made up

Original vs. medium PP


Original vs. high PP, too fake, but just to show it maxed out


Original vs. medium PP


Original vs. high PP, too fake, but just to show it maxed out


-Roy

[deleonphotographyvideo]

Honesty I don't like that , looks like she has white dust in her face

[lextalionis]

yep i agree...very first go for me...honestly won't always use it...but i'll teak some and post 2nd 3rd etc. versions there's a few lighting sliders that add that "dust glow" crap...guess i should back off the default some.

-Roy

[mhuebner]

I was actually ready to pan the program too but am pleasantly surpised with the result. You certainly need to do some additional post processing (minimum of contrast and saturation) to bring back the "pop" of the original photos but I'm impressed.

[lextalionis]

Thanks...again remember it was my very first time and I only spent about 15 minutes and I was done...I then returned to the computer later in the night to post the examples.

I just did another quick round. I used the exposure/lighting/contrast section sliders and did a little less spot/pore/wrinkel removal and here's the result:



-Roy

[luis_relampago]

Is not bad at all but it needs more tweaking. Does it works in layers like photoshop what about masks and things of that nature?

[lextalionis]

Luis,

From what I can tell, it accepts raw and and only does single layer PP with export to 16bit tiff. So for masks and further editing Photo Shop etc. would be required.

-Roy

[ekohl]

I have been using it at church to quickly re-touch photos of new members- primarily to remove skin blemishes etc for display on our rear projection screens (3 9x12ft) during announcements at the end of service.

Typically we'll have 3 families per week, and have only 45 minutes from card out of camera to announcement time. This has saved us a TON of time. At $99bucks- a steal!

If anyone wants examples, let me know!

[timbertoes]

I think the software's end result....could sell a lot of prints!
people dont mind looking a lot younger :)

thanks for the post :)