Portrait Professional

[gaz_jameison]

Anyone know anything about this?

http://www.portraitprofessional.com/

I havent a clue about editing software myself and seen this (advertised on the Nikon website) and thought it might be handy for gimps like me?

(Apologies in advance to the mods if I'm not allowed to post links to other sites like this, by all means delete if this is against forum rules...)

 

[bindex]

It's not bad. Not as good as photoshop but a lot quicker and easier for what it's designed for. Just don't overdo it!

check out this LINK

 

[gaz_jameison]

Thanks Bill!

 

[Dr_O]

Recent discussion might have some additional info

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=385700

 

[gaz_jameison]

Sorry, I should have looked before I posted. Thanks.

 

[bindex]

No apologies needed. It's always worth having a search first but it doesn't always pull up the results you expect anyway. Don't worry about it gaz

 

[Smile Studio]

thanks for the link

 

[paul williams]

I've just added my discount code to that thread.

Had an intense Photoshop tutorial last night about 'enhancing' portraits. When I came home I downloaded the trial version of Portrait Professional and instantly purchased - far more productive use of time as opposed to doing the same thing in Photoshop and better results IMO, though I am no expert, but then again can't see I'll ever have the time to become one. I'd sooner spend more time behind the camera than in-front of the screen

Paul

 

[haggis]

Portrait Professional is really useful for quick skin smoothing and blemish removal etc as long as you turn the face sculpting off and tone down the default settings. Too many people too precious about their work and dissing PP to justify it (IMHO)

 

[Scarecrow]

As haggis said, the default settings in PP are too harsh and make the skin look too plastic. Tone them down and then save the settings as a new default. Also make sure you turn off the face sculpting, it does some really weird stuff to faces sometimes.

My workflow for portraits usually is to open the image in Photoshop and use the spot healing brush to get rid of any major skin blemishes, and then transfer the image to PP for the skin smoothing bit. When I bring the PP'd image back to Photoshop, I usually bring it in as a new layer, and reduce the opacity of that layer to make sure it isn't unrealistically smooth, somewhere around 60%-70% is usually good enough.