ArcSoft Portrait+ Main Features
- Adjustable skin tone
- Streamline interface and workflow help you get through thousands of portraits at once
- New photographer-approved preset and custom filters for perfect enhancements
- Enhance the current photo or all photos with presets
- Save files with their original names or batch rename them
Automatic detection
with unmatched precision
- Can detect up to 30 faces in a photo
- Accurately and automatically detect 24 key facial points on each face.
- Automatic detection of all visible skin
Batch processing
results in amazing efficiency
- Import a whole folder of photos or hundreds of images within seconds
- Apply intelligent, stunning presets to all of your portraits with one click
- Tweak filters and apply them individually or in a batch
- Flexibly batch export all photos to any folder with adjustable size and quality
Smart tools to
enhance retouching
- Blemish Removal eliminates or reduces pimples, wrinkles and other imperfections and blends perfectly into the original skin texture
- Reshape and fine tune facial features easily by moving sliders
- Want more? Optional makeup kits allow you to beautify your portraits with just a few clicks
Installation and Use
Using a slow 512Mb broadband wifi signal, it took no longer
than ten minutes to download the files and around 5 more to register the
program and launch it.
Launching Portrait+ brings up a very simple layout. The name
of the program sits at the top of the page with just four steps below. These
steps are a little reminiscent of Light-room with such a small amount of work
to do until export. However, the steps on Portrait+ are much simpler and
there's less actual adjustments that are available to the user.
ArcSoft Portrait+ Performance
When you open the program you can import an individual
picture or an entire folder. You can drag and drop individual pictures in.
The software will detect your subject's face and automatically find the
key points, such as eyes and nose. The key points can be adjusted. There are a
series of dots that need to be in certain areas of the face. If you get stuck
there is a help box which gives you a diagram showing where to move your dot
to.
The editing options are on the right hand side of the screen.
Firstly you'll see the presets. If you're using the software on male faces you
need to be careful as the presets make them look a little feminine. Performing
the edits to multiple images is easy, just load all of the images you want to
edit, each preset has the option to apply all images, which appears underneath
the list of presets.
When you've finished with the presets, you can “click” edit
which will show you to a lot of editing options. The best way is to start at
the top and work through each option one at the same time. They are split into
three sections - skin magic, enhancements and makeup. Within skin magic, the
adjust skin area option shows you the mask created for the skin, which you can
adjust if it hasn't got it quite right automatically. You can also now change
the skin tone of your subject.
Many of the other editing options allow you to adjust
sliding scales from 0 to 100, or use the low, medium and high options. Be
careful, it is easy to overdo some of the editing options - although this can
be great fun as well! You're also able to create your own DIY styles, choosing
from soften skin, remove shine, slim face, brighten eyes, enlarge eyes, remove
circles, enhance nose, deepen smile and whiten teeth.
The bottom of the screen shows you thumbnails of the images
you've loaded in to Portrait+. The export button is also here. When finished
your editing, it's time to save. Whether you're editing one or a hundred photos,
the process is the same. You're able to choose the location you want to save
to, rename, resize and choose the format and quality. You can also apply a
preset to all of the images you are exporting.
Tips and Tricks
- If you want to retouch one or more specific faces in a group photo, you only need to disable the face detection for the others.
- Comparison interface allows you to pick the best effects easily.
- The editing styles you customize can be saved as new presets and applied to portraits.
Conclusion
The workflow is clearly much simpler than before and the
ability to be able to adjust the skin tone is also a very handy feature, which
is easy to perform. It is ideal for beginners who don't want to go down the
Photoshop route, but want to edit portrait shots. It's as simple as loading
your image, selecting your preferred preset and exporting.
If you've got a number of images to edit, you'll find the
batch editing feature extremely useful. Where professionals may be put off is
the lack of RAW support, but those with more experience and their own style
will enjoy being able to make their own presets. It's a little on the expensive
side, but the ease of use and performance stand out, meaning we are happy to
recommend ArcSoft Portrait+.
Pros
- Even easier to use
- You can now adjust skin tones
- Available as both a standalone program and Photoshop plug-in
- Batch processing
- You can make your own presets
Cons
- Standalone version is a little expensive
- Easy to make male subjects look unnatural
- Users who upgrade my miss the larger number of presets from version 2
- No RAW support
Alternative: PT Portrait
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