Portrait Professional and Portrait Professional Studio are image editors for Windows and Mac, specifically targeted at editing portrait photographs. Rather than using brushes as a traditional image editor does, the user first describes where the face is in the picture, then most of the transformations are done through sliders. One of the unique, but controversial features is the ability to automatically reshape the face to fit a model of beauty. Portrait Professional Studio has all the features of Portrait Professional and additionally handles raw files

RAW image format

A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...

, 16 bit tiffs and color profiles. It is available as a stand-alone application, and Portrait Professional Studio is also a Photoshop plugin

Photoshop plugin

Photoshop plugins are add-on programs aimed at providing additional image effects or performing tasks that are impossible or hard to fulfill using Adobe Photoshop alone...

. Portrait Professional was initially released in July 2006.

Features

• Reshape all or any aspect of the face to make it more attractive
• Fix skin blemishes such as spots or pimples
• Smooth out and neaten messy hair
• Thicken and re-color hair.
• Reduce and/or remove wrinkles
• Remove grease, sweat or unsightly shine highlights from the skin
• Adjust the lighting on the face to make it more flattering
• Remove red eye
• Recolor eyes
• Whiten teeth and eyes
• Sharpen individual features like eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth

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