Portrait Professional Reviews
October 2008 - Computer active
Provides very fine editing control for portrait photography
September 2008 - ThinkCamera
"money well spent"
August 2008 - MacUser
The truly surprising thing about Portrait Professional is not that it works, but that it works so well. As with all retouching, you need to know how much is too much and where to draw the line, but that's really about all you need to know.
An operator with very little skill or experience would have no trouble using it to make genuine improvements to portraits that you could only achieve in Photoshop if you really knew what you were doing. Even then, particularly where shape changes are involved, making the right selections and adjusting them would be the work of many minutes rather than just a few seconds.
August 2008 - Software Editorial
Anthropics Portrait Professional 8.0 Review
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Every once in a while you come across a piece of software that really stands out from the crowd. Portrait Professional not only stands out, but is head, shoulders and torso different.
Portrait Professional is simply the very best program available for enhancing photographs of people.
July 2008 - Macworld
Fast and intelligent image retouching tool makes Mac migration
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The latest version of the software has been enhanced by further training in human appearance, particularly on the 3/4 views. In response to feedback from fashion photographers it also includes further shape beautification modes, such as neck lengthening.
Portrait Professional 8 also offers automatic hair recolouring, hair thickening and hair smoothing in the editing stage. It has similar enhancements for eyes and mouths. Iris colour, iris saturation, whiteness of the eye, pupil colour, and the sharpness and size of each eye can be individually controlled by sliders.
February 2008 - Professional Imagemaker Magazine
This is a piece of software you can hardly be without, it is a remarkable
bit of coding at an even more remarkable price, nothing we can write
will top what you will find after your first couple of attempts! It comes
with a cast iron recommendation. As footnote, we casually mentioned
Portrait Professional to Gary Galt. He downloaded the software
overnight and the following morning he showed it to a client who had
come for a passport photograph, she went out with a large print as
well as her passport picture - job done!
Professional Imagemaker is the magazine for members of the Society of Wedding & Portrait Photographers, and the British Professional Photographers Association.
August 2007 - Personal Computer World - High-quality retouching at an ultra-low price
Pros: Very easy to use; low price; Excellent results
Cons: No make-up painting tools
Overall: Extremely easy to use and capable of stunning results without the need for advanced skills
Cons: No make-up painting tools
Overall: Extremely easy to use and capable of stunning results without the need for advanced skills
Don't let the insanely low price fool you; Portrait Professional 6 is a tremendously powerful piece of software
that can produce stunning results when used wisely.
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July 2007 - Imaging Resource - Portrait Professional -- Automated Makeovers
Portrait Pro isn't really about beauty at all, but simple, time-tested flattery.
It does simple retouching as well as more dramatic reshaping toward an ideal you may or may not find so ideal.
That can't help but interest any professional interested in making a sale.
Considering how easy the program is to use, there's nothing to fear, either.
But the greater achievement, it seems, is the program's ability to distinguish facial features like skin defects from pores and small wrinkles from the larger ones that define character. Giving you control over these categories of facial features -- as well as being able to store your settings as a preset -- means you can define your own level of flattery.
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But the greater achievement, it seems, is the program's ability to distinguish facial features like skin defects from pores and small wrinkles from the larger ones that define character. Giving you control over these categories of facial features -- as well as being able to store your settings as a preset -- means you can define your own level of flattery.
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June 2007 - ePHOTOzine - PortraitProfessional Max 5 - fantastic face enhancement software reviewed
The initial impression is one of jaw-dropping amazement. The automated processing can come up with a great result right out of the tin so to speak. All you have to do is then save the image and go on to the next one. What's very impressive is the way that surface skin imperfections can be removed while retaining surface texture, colour and shading. The fine lines and wrinkles are a bonus. The other impressive element is the ability to sculpt the face from head to jawline and this can make a huge difference to the impact of the photo. The lips and eyebrow tweaking is more subtle, but the eye enhancements are very effect, particularly if the subject was squinting in bright light, or their eyes were in shadow.
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April 2007 - New York Times - Looking Perfect, One Pixel at a Time
Some companies are trying to automate the process. Among them is Anthropics Technology, which makes a software program called PortraitProfessional
that gives the user about 80 ways to increase the beauty of a subject with algorithms that automatically shift and reshape the parts of a face.
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Rated five stars out of five at DownloadRage
The software has been trained in all aspects of beauty.
It allows you to choose how much to enhance the lighting, the skin texture and even how many wrinkles to remove.
It even allows you subtly re-sculpt the face to make your subject look as good as possible.
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Digital Photo News - Portrait Professional review
First portrait took me around 4-5 minutes to complete because I was new to program but second
one was quite faster, no more then a minute.
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March 2007 - Psst Wanna Be A Portrait Professional
It's not often a piece of software makes me go Wow.
Maybe I'm just too jaded from all the years in the industry...
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March 2007 - Portrait Professional
Portrait Professional is downloadable, intelligent photo retouch software from Anthropics Technology.
After the user marks certain points on the face of a photo, the program contacts a remote server and presents a completely
retouched photo.
Users can adjust everything from teeth whiteness to eyebrow shape, and save tons of time over shopping portraits
the old-fashioned way.
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October 2006 - Anthropics Technology announces new milestone in image processing techniques
For those in the photographic industry this is a complementary tool that can reduce retouching time by upwards of 80% per image,
and for the keen amateur this is a package that can create results previously unattainable without becoming a highly adept Photoshop user.
Click here to see the press release.
Click here to see the press release.
September 2006 - Guardian - Software to bring out the beauty in all of us
A new service launched earlier this month from Anthropics will do what many professional photographers and graphic designers can already do
with Adobe's image manipulation program Photoshop - but a lot faster - by removing blemishes, wrinkles and glare caused by harsh lighting.
But that's not all: it can rejig the contours of female faces to make them look more attractive.
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September 2006 - bliss - Airbrush Me
Look gorgeous in all your pics.
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September 2006 - More - Airbrush Me
We’ve got hold of a fantastic new package to radically improve the appearance
of photos in digital photographs. Its amazing technology means that you can literally airbrush yourself to get rid
of spots, wrinkles and signs of aging. You can also take away redeye, and sculpt your face to give it a Hollywood lift, too.
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September 2006 - New Woman - Love your look!
Look AMAZING in all your pics!
Airbrush your photos with this genius new device - goodbye bad face days, hello model looks!
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Airbrush your photos with this genius new device - goodbye bad face days, hello model looks!
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August 2006 - New scientist blog - Beauty and the digital beast
Since the arrival of digital cameras and Adobe Photoshop, professional photographers have been slimming down models’ already pencil-thin physiques and smoothing out the blemishes on their near-perfect
faces with ease. But what if every photo posted online was enhanced?
It looks like we might find out sooner rather than later. London-based graphics company Anthropics has quietly launched software that makes any photo of a female face uploaded to this website more attractive.
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It looks like we might find out sooner rather than later. London-based graphics company Anthropics has quietly launched software that makes any photo of a female face uploaded to this website more attractive.
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August 2006 - BBC News - From mortal to model
While digital enhancement has been around for years, subtly airbrushing celebrities
and models to make them a bit thinner, less spotty or better endowed, the mere mortal has been resigned to, well, looking like a mere mortal.
But new advances in digital enhancement software may mean dodgy snaps could soon be relegated to the photo album of the past.
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But new advances in digital enhancement software may mean dodgy snaps could soon be relegated to the photo album of the past.
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July 2006 - What Digital Camera - News article
The world's pro photography scene is fast-paced and highly competitive.
The number of images requiring that artistic finish for facial enhancement and retouching is vast and growing daily in demand.
Hardly surprising therefore that Anthropics' professional suite of picture enhancement software - rapid, cost-effective
and with breathtaking results - has caught the attention of photographic industry buffs.
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Click here to see their news article.
July 2006 - Journalist and BBC Technology Correspondent Guy Kewney
Anne Widdecombe gets a glam makeover - courtesy of Anthropics
Never slow to pick up on edgy technology news, Newswireless.net's
Guy Kewney seized the opportunity to use revolutionary image
processing techniques from Anthropics to give people's favorite
Anne Widdecombe a celebrity-style makeover. Anne makes a terrific
subject for the consumer version of this new instant-youth-and-beauty
software, but has Guy bitten off more than he can chew...?
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July 2006 - Suited phoneys vs honorable technocrats
The Register swoops on image perfection technology Tech industry hawks El Reg
also noted the advance in technology - never before has
such immediate and satisfying improvement been possible
with today's leading photo-editing software packages.
You can see our mention here - no doubt the first of many...
You can see our mention here - no doubt the first of many...