Perfect Portrait is photo retouching software by onOne Software. The real beauty of this photo retouching software is that although it works as a standalone application, it also works as a plugin to Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom or Aperture.
An auto-detect feature finds people in your images, outlining faces with a box. You can then adjust the 14 facial mapping points on each subject's face to match up with their eyes, nose and lips. The better the facial map, the better the adjustments. Perfect Portrait works a lot like Photoshop in the sense that you can add layers to your image to create the perfect effect.
Close your eyes and imagine every photo filter you can think of. Now, double that number. Heck, triple it! Open your eyes. You are in the workspace of Perfect Portrait photo retouching software where there are literally hundreds of photo filters at your fingertips. When it comes to editing the subjects in your pictures, the choices are considerably less, but you still have a good handle on adjusting skin tone, whitening teeth, adjusting lip color and more. However, you can’t alter the subjects’ facial features in any way. There is no option to enlarge the eyes, lift cheeks, reshape the nose or slim the face.
Perfect Portrait has excellent help and support options on their website. They have over 10 online tutorials to aid you in perfecting your portraits. An email address, phone number and live support are all available for further one-on-one guidance from a support representative.
An auto-detect feature finds people in your images, outlining faces with a box. You can then adjust the 14 facial mapping points on each subject's face to match up with their eyes, nose and lips. The better the facial map, the better the adjustments. Perfect Portrait works a lot like Photoshop in the sense that you can add layers to your image to create the perfect effect.
Close your eyes and imagine every photo filter you can think of. Now, double that number. Heck, triple it! Open your eyes. You are in the workspace of Perfect Portrait photo retouching software where there are literally hundreds of photo filters at your fingertips. When it comes to editing the subjects in your pictures, the choices are considerably less, but you still have a good handle on adjusting skin tone, whitening teeth, adjusting lip color and more. However, you can’t alter the subjects’ facial features in any way. There is no option to enlarge the eyes, lift cheeks, reshape the nose or slim the face.
Perfect Portrait has excellent help and support options on their website. They have over 10 online tutorials to aid you in perfecting your portraits. An email address, phone number and live support are all available for further one-on-one guidance from a support representative.
ArcSoft Portrait+ is perfect for photographers who have an entire photoshoot to edit at once. Whether it's a batch of 10 or 110, you can import all of them at one time into the ArcSoft Portrait Plus workspace. From there, Portrait Plus gets right to work, auto detecting the faces in your images and prepping them for facial mapping. Precise facial mapping is essential for the photo retouching software’s tools to work correctly. ArcSoft has 25 different points they want you to tweak and mold to your subject’s faces. You are directed where you put the points: corners of the eyes, top and bottom of the lips, sides of the face, etc. This step does take a little extra time, but the automatic enhancement features that can be applied to a perfectly mapped face are worth it. The smallest image you can import is 480 x 480 pixels and the largest you can import is 8000 x 8000.
Once you’ve enhanced and beautified all of the images you imported, you can now export those images in a batch as well. Here’s where things get tricky. Every picture you edit will have the choice of custom or preset enhancements. If you choose to customize the image, you will export one, beautifully enhanced picture. If you choose several preset enhancements, each one of those enhancements will be exported as a different image. So, if you have 10 pictures and you choose three different preset enhancements for each one, a total of 30 pictures will be exported. While we really enjoy the preset enhancements, choosing several means a lot of exported pictures to sort through. Images can be compressed during output or exported in their original size.
One of the best things ArcSoft Plus has going for it is the Photoshop plugin that comes with the photo retouching software. With this plugin you can edit pictures in Photoshop and enhance the images with Portrait Plus’ amazing tools. We love that you don’t have to edit and transfer images over multiple platforms just to get the final image you desire.
Once you’ve enhanced and beautified all of the images you imported, you can now export those images in a batch as well. Here’s where things get tricky. Every picture you edit will have the choice of custom or preset enhancements. If you choose to customize the image, you will export one, beautifully enhanced picture. If you choose several preset enhancements, each one of those enhancements will be exported as a different image. So, if you have 10 pictures and you choose three different preset enhancements for each one, a total of 30 pictures will be exported. While we really enjoy the preset enhancements, choosing several means a lot of exported pictures to sort through. Images can be compressed during output or exported in their original size.
One of the best things ArcSoft Plus has going for it is the Photoshop plugin that comes with the photo retouching software. With this plugin you can edit pictures in Photoshop and enhance the images with Portrait Plus’ amazing tools. We love that you don’t have to edit and transfer images over multiple platforms just to get the final image you desire.
ArcSoft Perfect365’s software plots 25 different points on your face, allowing the photo retouching software to zero in on and edit specific facial features. Once the software’s auto-detect feature has picked out all of the different faces in a photo, you’ll see them at the top of your workspace. From there you can edit each individual separately. The auto-detect functionality will work on faces, even if they’re turned, but the facial mapping technology is much harder to work with. When implementing this photo retouching software, we recommend using it on front-on portraits. This particular version of ArcSoft photo retouching software doesn’t have a Photoshop plug-in.
You can’t batch import or export images into Perfect365, each image has to be opened and edited individually. In fact, you have to save the image you’re currently working on to even open another image. Perfect365 seems better suited to an everyday user rather than photographers with large photo shoots to edit. It is easy, however, to enhance pictures quickly with the 20+ pre-set adjustments this software offers. A before and after toggle button at the top of the program’s screen helps you see the changes you’ve made. We love this feature because it allows you to hone in on those problem areas, make sure they’re perfect and then see the fruits of your labors by toggling back and forth between screens.
You can’t batch import or export images into Perfect365, each image has to be opened and edited individually. In fact, you have to save the image you’re currently working on to even open another image. Perfect365 seems better suited to an everyday user rather than photographers with large photo shoots to edit. It is easy, however, to enhance pictures quickly with the 20+ pre-set adjustments this software offers. A before and after toggle button at the top of the program’s screen helps you see the changes you’ve made. We love this feature because it allows you to hone in on those problem areas, make sure they’re perfect and then see the fruits of your labors by toggling back and forth between screens.
In a series of steps, Portrait Professional takes an image and, according to the placement of over 70 facial mapping dots, will self-adjust an image for you. The photo retouching software auto-detects faces, and you have the option to alter the facial mapping dots to fine-tune enhancements. Before saving the adjustments, you are directed to a page where you can tweak the enhancements the software has made automatically. We didn’t like the software’s enhancements on the image we tried to edit, so we started from scratch.
You can use a fine touch-up brush, a restore brush or any of the slide bar controls available (skin coloring, eyes, mouth shape, skin smoothing, etc.) to alter the image. You have to complete this process for each image you wish to enhance – there are no batch import or export options. Edits to the actual picture can also be made right in Portrait Professional’s software or you can install a Photoshop plugin.
You can use a fine touch-up brush, a restore brush or any of the slide bar controls available (skin coloring, eyes, mouth shape, skin smoothing, etc.) to alter the image. You have to complete this process for each image you wish to enhance – there are no batch import or export options. Edits to the actual picture can also be made right in Portrait Professional’s software or you can install a Photoshop plugin.
- Review found in toptenreviews.com.
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