I won’t show you the results, because the before shot was a not exactly flattering lighting test, when I say not flattering, a beautiful woman looked more like a potato than herself, and I would like to keep the friendship. I did show my friend both images and she really liked the after shot. It was pretty fun, with a bit of practice I eventually turned my blonde, brown-eyed, no make-up friend into a saucy red lipped, blue eyed, red head vixen with an uncanny resemblance to pop star Kylie Minogue. I tested out the sliders and their effects, then went to town. The simple interface, and pop up instructions made it easy to just jump right in. This one had the correct number of eyes, so I started playing around. Rather than succumb to instructions I tried another image. My first test image didn’t go so well, if I was going for a Picasso look, this would be great, but it wasn’t exactly what I was after. It came up with an interesting eye situation and I thought, oh dear, this is not good. Portrait Pro did its thing and opened the before and its auto processed after image. All good things, but I’m not one for instructions and just opened the program with a test image.
#Portrait professional studio 64 v12 manual#
There are instructional videos, tutorials, a forum, a support page, and a manual to download on the website.
#Portrait professional studio 64 v12 install#
The download and install were super easy, off to a good start. When our Digital Photography School editor offered a free download of Portrait-Pro 12 Studio Max to test out and possibly review I figured this was a perfect opportunity to see if this kind of thing is something that a cynic like me, I might actually find useful. I want my subjects to look like themselves, in their best light of course, but not like some barbie doll cyborg with lifeless eyes. I always preferred the natural before image to the over processed, plastic looking after images. I had looked into a retouching program briefly, but after clicking on a few sites I never got further than looking at the before and after samples. I like to keep a natural look, using Photoshop only for any minor retouching needed. Working mostly in fine art portraits I’ve never felt the need to try a retouching program.
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