Anthropics Portrait Pro version 19, first impresssions

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

I've upgraded to the new version 19, and I must say that I like what it offers. The new feature additions make it a real upgrade.

Feature detection has improved, which makes the retouching more focused on the actual 'problem' areas. Skin quality has improved a lot (it looks even more natural), and there are many new controls that allow to tweak the results in a very detailed way.
Although I'm usually very conservative  with the Face sculpting features, they can help when applied with moderation. Even facial expressions can be controlled realisticly, with a choice between changing the smile, frown, surprise, interest, and thoughtful expression.

The improvements and the Black Friday discount made upgrading a lot less painful.

Cheers,
Bart

[Martin Kristiansen]

I don’t do enough portraiture to make this useful for me but I should look at a few tutorials just to keep up with things. A large client of mine has two retouchers and recently banned the program after all good sense was abandoned and the models ended up looking liking Barbie dolls. You can’t buy good taste it seems. The saturation’s slider is proof enough of that.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

I don’t do enough portraiture to make this useful for me but I should look at a few tutorials just to keep up with things. A large client of mine has two retouchers and recently banned the program after all good sense was abandoned and the models ended up looking liking Barbie dolls. You can’t buy good taste it seems. The saturation’s slider is proof enough of that.

Restraint helps with getting good results very fast. As with all software, one can easily go overboard and overdo things.

Portrait Pro also allows to make one's own presets, once a good baseline has been agreed upon.

[DP]

I don’t do enough portraiture to make this useful for me but I should look at a few tutorials just to keep up with things. A large client of mine has two retouchers and recently banned the program after all good sense was abandoned and the models ended up looking liking Barbie dolls. You can’t buy good taste it seems. The saturation’s slider is proof enough of that.

He probably need to get rid of his retouchers instead...

[fdisilvestro]

Bart, thanks for the information

[brandon]

I've upgraded to the new version 19, and I must say that I like what it offers. The new feature additions make it a real upgrade.

Feature detection has improved, which makes the retouching more focused on the actual 'problem' areas. Skin quality has improved a lot (it looks even more natural), and there are many new controls that allow to tweak the results in a very detailed way.
Although I'm usually very conservative  with the Face sculpting features, they can help when applied with moderation. Even facial expressions can be controlled realisticly, with a choice between changing the smile, frown, surprise, interest, and thoughtful expression.

The improvements and the Black Friday discount made upgrading a lot less painful.

Cheers,
Bart

Are you using the "Studio" edition, to get plug in to PS? How well does it work as a standalone?
Thanks

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Are you using the "Studio" edition, to get plug in to PS? How well does it work as a standalone?
Thanks

Hi Brandon,

I use the Studio version as a stand-alone mostly. I use Photoshop less and less as time goes by. I'm going to try and add the plugin to Affinity Photo.

Here are some of the new features:
https://www.anthropics.com/portraitpro/photo_editing_software/new_in_v19/

Cheers,
Bart

[brandon]

Hi Brandon,

I use the Studio version as a stand-alone mostly. I use Photoshop less and less as time goes by. I'm going to try and add the plugin to Affinity Photo.

Here are some of the new features:
https://www.anthropics.com/portraitpro/photo_editing_software/new_in_v19/

Cheers,
Bart

Thanks Bart
I too use PS less , but still tend to do the Edit in round trip from Capture One so it could be helpful in that workflow.
Interested to hear if it integrates with Affinity.

Cheers
Brandon

[Martin Kristiansen]

He probably need to get rid of his retouchers instead...

In fairness it should be said they were under immense pressure from the director of marketing and the marketing manager. That entire team was replaced and the retouchers are still there doing much better work now.

[stormyboy]

I haven't tried using Portrait Pro via Affinity yet since I usually use it from PS.  But, this thread got me curious and I found the following that might help, or not.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/18299-portrait-pro-as-plugins/
Tom

[brandon]

I haven't tried using Portrait Pro via Affinity yet since I usually use it from PS.  But, this thread got me curious and I found the following that might help, or not.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/18299-portrait-pro-as-plugins/
Tom

Thanks for advice. Worth purchasing the pro version I think over the basic. (I cant test outputs on the trial),
Cheers
Brandon

[brandon]

I haven't tried using Portrait Pro via Affinity yet since I usually use it from PS.  But, this thread got me curious and I found the following that might help, or not.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/18299-portrait-pro-as-plugins/
Tom

Found this page has info from Anthropics site https://www.anthropics.com/support/portraitpro/plugins/