Portrait Professional 11 is available as a stand-alone app or as a stand-alone plus plug-in combo version, called Portrait Professional Studio, which integrates with Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop Elements.
Plus, as I mentioned, it has the power to make your portraits look fantastic. Having said that, anyone who shoots headshots, portraits or weddings for a living should consider adding Portrait Professional 11 to their workflow-if they haven’t already-because it’s bound to save you tons of time usually spent fiddling in Photoshop. (Unless your clients don’t mind a heavily processed, alien-celebrity simulacrum of themselves.) Don’t get me wrong: If you don’t overdo it with this powerful and helpful piece of software, you can make good portraits look even more stunning, which will likely make your clients very, very happy.īut go even just a little too far with Portrait Professional 11, and you could change how a person looks entirely, sometimes for better but usually for worse.
Portrait Professional from Anthropics Technology has been around since 2006 and is one of the easier portrait photography programs I’ve tried and also, potentially, one of the more dangerous. Ladies and gentlemen, one such app that fits the bill is called Portrait Professional and it’s now in version 11 with several new features. While I liked that action set a lot, I remarked that some photographers might prefer a fast stand-alone app or Photoshop plug-in instead of a group of actions for gussying up their portraits quickly.
A few months ago in PDN, I reviewed a set of software actions from Totally Rad! called Pro Retouch 2, which offer a relatively easy way to retouch portraits in Photoshop.