Portraitpro studio 123/9/2023 I loaded up an image of model Chantal Marquis and let PP12 go through the default settings, including the face reshaping. I make my living lighting people’s faces, so face relighting was one new feature I was really anxious to try. By dragging that circle around the 3D head image you can alter the direction of light and then use the sliders to make other changes. It’s hard to believe, but you can actually make changes to the lighting after the shoot. This screen grab illustrates the Skin Lighting Controls, a.k.a. Other than that one subject the rest were correctly identified. When you have one face done to your satisfaction you hit “Next” to proceed to the others until you’re done. In this case it is up to you to tell PP12 whether it is a boy/girl or man/woman and then it will retouch each face individually. I loaded a group photo of seven people into the software and it went to work, identifying each face, even the one that had a graduation tassel cutting half of a face off. Then I figured I’d really give PP12 a workout. The software correctly identified the couple as a male and female and then proceeded to go to work retouching them, again hands off. Next, I loaded up a few images of a couple for batch processing. Before you exit the software you of course have the option of manually going in and making any changes you desire. The toolbar on the right will also show you status updates and let you know if any of the files failed. The blue dot means that the image has been located and mapped out the yellow dot signifies processing is done and then a little square that looks like a TV appears to indicate the image has been saved. The progress is monitored in real time via a progress window or by watching the dots that appear in the top right of each image. First, it located and marked the key areas of the face, then it processed each file, saving them to a folder I designated. PP12 then proceeded to run through a three-step process. Not wanting to wait for hundreds of faces to be transformed into blemish-free zones, I put five images from a recent high school senior photo shoot into a folder and loaded them up. Last year I had to retouch hundreds of portraits for a high school yearbook in a very short time so I can tell you that batch processing is a major feature for me. Up until now I believe there was only one other generally available software program that offered batch retouching. The biggest change, in the Studio Max Edition only, is batch processing. You do need to designate male/female/girl/boy and click on each head to process. You can see that even in a group of seven people PortraitPro 12 managed to identify all the faces in the image. In this review I’ll focus on three main upgrade areas to PP12 (Studio Max Edition): batch processing, gender/age detection, and face relighting. If you’d like some background on the many aspects of the software, type its name into the search box at and read my past reviews. You can set as many defaults as you like, such as Female, Male, Boy, etc. You can make adjustments to face shaping, eye brightness, teeth whitening, and more. The software then magically goes about retouching the faces one at a time. To get started in PortraitPro 12 (PP12), you open an image with one or several people in it and the software automatically analyzes and outlines each face. PortraitPro 12 can operate as a stand-alone and a Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture plug-in. I’ve been using PortraitPro since the first edition and now the company behind this popular retouching software, Anthropics Technology, has released Version 12, which includes a variety of updates, both major and minor. I also used the default settings on a few high school senior girls and both they and their parents liked the finished results. Since this is a model and not a portrait client, I had no issue with the face sculpting and Chantal Marquis didn’t either. PortraitPro 12 Studio Max Edition does a great job using the default settings.
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