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PortraitPro 18 is an alternative, which is what initially drew me to Anthropic’s PortraitPro Studio Max several years ago when I reviewed version 15. Complete control: check. Improved efficiency: check. The original images shown in this review are straight from the camera, and retouches have been made solely with PortraitPro. PortraitPro Standard is the standalone version, which also has a few other limitations. PortraitPro Studio and Studio Max can both be used as plugins, and they also offer a variety of other options including RAW file support, color profile support, the ability to read and write TIFF and PNG files in 16-bit mode, and a batch dialog. PortraitPro 21 Standard is great for many people. It is a standalone software that allows you to work with JPEG or 24-bit TIFF files. For many photographers, this will be perfect.

New in PortraitPro 21

PortraitPro 21 offers all new and improved features designed to deliver professional results in minutes.

• Sky Replacement technology allows you to instantly swap skies in and out of your photographs.
• Remove and reduce noise without sacrificing image quality.
• Modify shadows and brightness with new Light Brushes.
• Effortlessly customize hair with the new Hair Highlighting feature.
• Color Styles simplify complex editing processes and introduce colorful effects to help lead you in new artistic directions.

These are just some of the new elements offered in PortraitPro 21.

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• Improved Skin and Hair Finder
• Sky Replacement
• De-noiser
• Light Brushes
• Hair Highlighting

Fast, easy photo editing software

PortraitPro is the world’s best-selling retouching software. Using Artificial Intelligence, PortraitPro enhances every aspect of a portrait for beautifully natural results.

1 Automatically detect facial features, age, and gender of your subject

2 Instant, easy retouching with customizable beautification presets

3 Automatic selection of skin, hair, and background

4 Fully adjustable correction and retouch sliders

Fast, easy photo editing software

PortraitPro is the world’s bestselling portrait retouching software using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. The complete package for editing workflows, PortraitPro retouches every aspect of your portraits for beautiful, professional results.

Clone tool

Easily copy exact details and color from one area of your image to another. The Clone Tool is great for retouching projects that require a little more precision.

Clone tool

Easily copy exact details and color from one area of your image to another. The Clone Tool is great for retouching projects that require a little more precision.

Sky replacement

PortraitPro 21 will now automatically mask and blend your photographs, tweaking the tones of the foreground to match the new sky, leaving you with impressive yet realistic results.

Lighting brushes

Paint with light, color, and shadows to alter the appearance of, or add new lighting sources.

Lighting brushes

Paint with light, color, and shadows to alter the appearance of, or add new lighting sources.

What can PortraitPro do?

Skin Smoothing - ClearSkin™ 5 is a skin smoothing tool designed to give truly natural results. Exclusive to PortraitPro, it reproduces your subject’s existing skin texture while subtly removing blemishes and shadows.

3D Relighting - Apply studio lighting to your portraits using PortraitPro’s relighting tools and brushes. Correct unflattering shadows, add dimension, and alter light sources from your computer.

Expression Tools - By automatically detecting facial features, PortraitPro allows you to change or enhance your subject’s expressions, intensifying the overall appearance of your portrait.

AI face detection

No more wasting time with manual selections and complex masks. Using the latest development in deep learning and image recognition, PortraitPro offers the most accurate feature finding offered by any photo editing software.

Natural skin smoothing

PortraitPro 21 uses a bespoke skin smoothing tool designed to give uniquely beautiful and organic results. Exclusive to PortraitPro, ClearSkin™ reproduces your subject’s existing skin texture whilst subtly removing blemishes and shadows. Achieve authentically soft, glowing skin whilst still maintaining natural-looking texture.

Skin smoothing

PortraitPro 21 uses ClearSkin ™ technology to reproduce your subject’s existing skin texture whilst subtly removing blemishes and unwanted shadows.

Realistic digital makeup

Based on years of research and work alongside world leaders in cosmetics and beauty, PortraitPro offers a full range of digital makeup, creating fashionable and flattering makeup looks in a variety of styles.

• Enhance eyes with darker lashes, eyeliner, eyeshadow and mascara.
• Use highlighter and bronzer to contour the face.
• Include blush for a natural glow.
• Add lipstick in a range of colors and realistic textures.
• Create subtle looks or dramatic, high-fashion styles.

Digital makeup

Accentuate fashion photography with dramatic digital makeup, or add subtle enhancements for a natural everyday glow.

Image relighting

With PortraitPro 21, you can produce a wide range of digital lighting effects that adapt to your subject’s features. The new and improved fix light tool smooths and brightens skin for a healthy, fresh look while the modelling light tool highlights bone structure for a more dramatic look.

Adjust the direction and color of the light source using the simple interface to match and enhance the existing lighting in your scene.

Image relighting

The new and improved fix light tool smooths and brightens skin for a healthy, fresh look while the modelling light tool highlights bone structure for a more dramatic look.

Eye enhancement

PortraitPro allows you to easily modify highlights, shadows, and apply professional sharpening to help all eyes look extraordinary.

• Change the iris color and daken or adjust pupils
• Sharpen eyes and eyelashes.
• Whiten and clean eyes.
• Remove red-eye.
• NEW adjustable catch lights and reflections.

Hair color & highlights

PortraitPro 21's improved hair masking and selection makes hair editing easier than ever.

• Choose from 40 base shades and easily select new coloring.
• Customize each color with a range of sliders.
• Boost volume and shine for a luxurious lift.
• NEW add highlights and balayage without the need for a salon.

Hair color & highlights

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PortraitPro 21’s improved hair masking and selection makes hair editing as easy as ever. Change color or add highlights at the touch of a button.

Smart Filter

Smart Filter

Exclusive to PortraitPro Studio and Studio Max: Streamline your workflow with Smart Filter Capability. Switch effortlessly between Photoshop and PortraitPro for optimum customization.

Exclusive to PortraitPro Studio and Studio Max: Streamline your workflow with Smart Filter Capability. Switch effortlessly between Photoshop and PortraitPro for optimum customization.

Raw processing

For those who shoot the best quality images.

• Read Camera RAW & DNG files.
• Read and write TIFFs and PNGs with 16 bits per color sample.
• Set monitor and workspace color profiles.

Exclusive to the Studio and Studio Max editions.

Raw processing

• Read Camera RAW & DNG files.
• Read and write TIFFs and PNGs with 16 bits per color sample.
• Set monitor and workspace color profiles.

Exclusive to the Studio and Studio Max editions.

Automatic batch processing

PortraitPro Studio Max makes retouching your photos even faster by taking away most of the manual work. Simply select the images you wish to edit, select your presets, and let the software do the rest.

“For photographers who do large numbers of portraits in a session… the batch processing capabilities in PortraitPro Studio Max can erase the burden of their workflows tremendously” – Rangefinder Magazine.

PortraitPro Studio &
Studio Max

PortraitPro comes in three editions to suit your needs. For keen amateurs, PortraitPro Studio includes new Smart Filter functionality for Photoshop as well as handling RAW files directly and supporting different color spaces.

PortraitPro Studio Max has an automatic batch mode to process a whole photo shoot with just a few clicks.

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While many of us would rather outsource image retouching, it’s an exchange of creative control for greater time efficiency. PortraitPro 18 is an alternative, which is what initially drew me to Anthropic’s PortraitPro Studio Max several years ago when I reviewed version 15. Complete control: check. Improved efficiency: check. The original images shown in this review are straight from the camera, and retouches have been made solely with PortraitPro.

The PortraitPro 18 Studio Max installer prompts you regarding plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. For easy access to PortraitPro from those programs, install the plugins. Once installation is complete, you can open PortraitPro directly or via Photoshop (Filter > Anthropics > PortraitPro…). In Lightroom you must set up an additional external editor (Edit > Preferences > External Editing) by navigating to the PortraitPro application file. Then you can right-click any image and access PortraitPro (Edit in > Edit in PortraitPro…).

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To see the extent of PortraitPro 18 editing potential, compare the original image (top left) to the one with a background added (top right), makeup added (bottom left), and facial sculpting (bottom right), which is best left for instances where the client requests it.

Upon opening an image, PortraitPro automatically detects faces and attempts to determine age and gender (adult male, adult female, child), but you can override mistakes. On the right side of the screen is a menu toolbar full of sliders and selections—skin lightening, skin masks, eyes, makeup—you name it, PortraitPro pretty much has it covered. There’s even a retouching brush you can use to paint over blemishes that escaped the first round of auto retouching and a restore brush that can remove retouching. Version 18 also allows you to completely mask all edits in an area.

While PortraitPro is good for editing individual images, where it really shines is in batch mode. You can select a folder of images (I use the Windows dialog menu to search for just the TIF files I’ve created in a given folder), and PortraitPro will grind away at recognizing facial features and applying retouching presets to each one. At this point, the extent of PortraitPro’s efficiency is up to you. Either close out the auto batch immediately or tweak individual images as desired.

PortraitPro takes retouching to the next level, or maybe even beyond. The default retouching preset is too heavy-handed for my style, particularly with facial sculpting. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix: custom presets. I created my own preset with a natural, authentic look that matches my own style.

Compared to its predecessor, PortraitPro 18 has faster and more accurate facial recognition (with more draggable points), an improved restore brush, better background masking, options for layers such as a logo or other overlay on top of the image, and more. There are also improvements to hair, skin, and eye controls, including an “open/closed” eyes feature.

My favorite upgrade is the ability to enable non-destructive editing with smart filters in Photoshop (Filter > Convert for Smart Filters). When you run PortraitPro and return to Photoshop, a Smart Filter layer is created that you can toggle off or use to tweak later edits. This is a big improvement over the last version I tested, which required starting from scratch in PortraitPro if you wanted to change your retouching after running the Photoshop plugin.

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PortraitPro 18 works extremely well for smoothing skin tone and opening eyes just a bit wider. Compare the original capture (top photo) to the edited version (bottom photo).

I’ll preface my conclusion by saying that I don’t expect anyone to use all the features in this software for everyday retouching. But, should you ever need it, it’s nice to know that PortraitPro has covered all the bases as far as makeup, hair, skin, and backgrounds.

Is there anything PortraitPro can’t do? I encountered one situation where my subject was in profile view with her eyes closed. While the “eyes closed” buttons worked nicely in other situations, I didn’t see an option for “eyes off” in that specific situation.

Beyond that, I have a couple things I’d love to see in future versions: the ability to run a batch edit from a selection of Lightroom images, the ability to export PortraitPro’s background mask to Photoshop, and flexibility in the TIFF file extension. Why the last one? It’s more of a workaround for the lack of batch editing from Lightroom. I’ve been exporting TIF files from Lightroom, batch editing them in PortraitPro, and then renaming the generated TIFF files to TIF so that Lightroom recognizes the edited files. TIF and TIFF are, practically speaking, the same extension. Adobe generates TIF files, PortraitPro uses the newer convention TIFF files.

Overall, PortraitPro is a delight to use, even though my retouching style doesn’t warrant taking full advantage of all its retouching features. If you’re looking to improve your retouching workflow efficiency but don’t want to outsource or worry about losing creative control, give batch mode a shot. It may be a game changer for you.

PortraitPro comes in three versions: Standard ($44.95), Studio ($69.95), and Studio Max ($139.95). The Standard version is limited to JPG and 24-bit TIFF files, lacks batch editing, and does not integrate with editing software. The Studio version lets you work with raw or 48-bit files and has a basic batch dialog. Studio Max has full batch mode for the greatest efficiency. Both Studio and Studio Max integrate with Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. A free trial is available at portraitprofessional.com.

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Betsy Finn is a portrait artist in Dexter, Michigan.

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