Portrait Professional Question??

[Just-Jay]

Been looking at getting this for some time now... Didn't realize how cheap it actually is! All i need to know is there anything better out there or is the plugin for Photoshop better??

 

[swanseamale47]

Theres nothing else with the face sculpting (AFAIK) but some people like Imagenomic Portraiture which has skin softening and works as a plug-in.

 

[Mahoneyd187]

Portrait professional is awful. Imagenomic Portraiture is a million times better, I have experience with both, and now use neither. Take from that what you will lol

 

[PSILVERMAN]

I bought it quite a while ago and apart from messing about I've yet to use it in anger (for paid shoots).
I find skin smoothing in adjustment brush in LR3 to be all I need.
If I could go back I wouldn't buy it again and it goes down as one of those wastes of money unfortunately.

 

[swanseamale47]

Portrait pro is very good (assuming you tone down the default setting) and quite easy to use, whether it's worth the money is another thing, even though we have it I tend to use photoshop and simply blur the skin part slightly most of the time.
If you do a lot of portrait work it might be worth trying one or the other of the tools, i thnik topaz does one as well but haven t tried it yet.

 

[Houston1863]

For the asking price it's worth a buy even if you don't use it much. I used it a couple of times last year and was quite pleased and surprised with the results.

Hope this helps.

 

[haggis]

You can use it standalone or as a Photoshop plugin