Portraiture
Portraiture enables the rapid retouching of portraits, using intelligent routines to eliminate selective masking. It removes imperfections but retains skin texture so that the portrait still looks natural. It gives you a high level of control over the treatment of detail, allowing you to adjust for sharpness, softness, warmth, brightness and contrast.
Portraiture also allows you to use custom presets that record your own actions so they can be repeated elsewhere. Its Auto-Mask feature lets you apply smoothing routines automatically then fine-tune them with color tools and slider controls. Portraiture's auto feature recognizes all the possible skin types that may be present in the image.
Comment
With its pre-defined presets for one-click effects, Portraiture really is a speedy tool: ideal for the busy studio. It makes skin blemishes disappear as if by magic.
Some reviewers have complained about its price, but for the intended market it seems to be very good value. It can be purchased in a bundle with the vendor's RealGrain and Noiseware Professional plugins, which is even better value.
Tech info
- Plugs into: Adobe Photoshop CS onward; Lightroom 2; Elements 3 onward; Apple's Aperture 2.1 onward
- OS: Windows 2000 onward; Mac OS X
- Price level: (Portraiture plug-in) $200; Pro Plug-in Suite with RealGrain and Noiseware Professional $300
Imagenomic
Imagenomic LLC is a privately held, independent software vendor specializing in digital imagery enhancement solutions.
From the same vendor:
- Noiseware
- RealGrain
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