For the price, PT Portrait wins hands down IMO.ĮDIT to add: I'm playing with the Portrait Professional "Standard" edition and they do have a few more controls when it comes to re-shaping the person's face, lightening hair and allows you to select other faces in the photo. If I were you, I'd download both trial versions, try them and see which one you enjoy working with more. Portrait Professional "Standard" can't do those things, even though their price is similar.Ĭhances are these two programs are on par with each other when it comes to their abilities, but the price difference is pretty big. PT Portrait can read RAW files, supports 16bit TIFFs, can batch-process, Lightroom and Photoshop plug-in is included, and so on, all for $40.00. To be able to batch-process images, you'll have to buy the Studio Max for $120.00. It looks like they lowered their price for their regular edition, but the studio edition with 16bit TIFF support is still more expensive than PT Portrait, charging about $60.00 vs. I tried Portrait Professional about a year or two ago. Do you believe it is better than Portrait Pro? I think I'm going to love using the 85mm f/1.8G on people a lot more now.
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I prefer to keep it somewhere in the middle. You can go as natural or as fake as you'd like.
I finally came across "PT Portrait" last week, tried it, loved it and for $49.00 it was very hard to beat! Check out these before & after results by clicking on the images to see the animated GIFs:īigger touched-up JPEG with more visible details:Īlthough it can easily be overdone, PT Portrait gives you a lot of control over the level of smoothing, texture, color and so forth. It's one of the things that holds me back from enjoying portrait photography, fearing that they won't always like the outcome.Īlthough I have Photoshop CC, it's much more painful to edit each photo to my satisfaction compared to portrait-dedicated software. Occasionally I'll take photos of friends or family and would like to - painlessly- fix some of the temporary or permanent skin imperfections that can cloud their overall appearance. Sort of off-topic here, but I've been looking for decent portrait software for a couple of years now, have tried different trial versions of "Portrait Professional", "Imagenomic Portraiture" and so on, but their prices were too high for someone like myself, who doesn't make a living shooting portraits.
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