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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
red-eye removal is poorly implemented and the “suntan” effect gives a tan to the background
as well as the person. But it requires no membership, no registration, and, being
supported by advertising, is entirely “free.”
Version: LookWow! 3.1 (2008)
OS: Multi-platform Java-based; PC version XP and Vista
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: JPEG
Price level: Free (advertising-supported)
Address: info@lookwow.com
www.lookwow.com
Portrait Professional
Vendor: Anthropics Technology
Purpose: Retouching software to fix blemishes, reshape faces, remove shiny highlights, and so on
Description
Portrait Professional is a package that allows photographers to make both subtle and
dramatic changes to the sitter’s appearance in a portrait. With it, you can fix skin blemishes,
remove wrinkles, grease, sweat, and shiny highlights, adjust lighting to make it more
flattering, and perform routine tasks like red-eye removal and teeth/eye whitening.
Built-in intelligence allows you to perform retouching operations without any special
skills; the automatic airbrush “really does do all the hard work for you,” according to
the vendor. It has a slider control interface, each slider being dedicated to a separate task,
such as “Imperfections,” “Thin wrinkles,” “Fine shadows,” “Remove pores,” and “Tan.”
Used to its full extent it will even make adjustments to a face’s underlying bone structure.
There is a Max option in Portrait Professional that allows you to work directly with 16
bits per color in TIFF or RAW format, straight from the camera.
Comments
Based at London’s Ealing Studios, the vendor of Portrait Professional is a commercial
spin-off from the UK’s National Film and Television School. Portrait Professional is one
of its main products: a sophisticated retouching package that is a lot easier to use than
the equivalent tools in Adobe Photoshop. Where speed is essential, Portrait Professional
is a viable option, although the results you can achieve with slider controls might never
quite match Photoshop precision.
Version: Portrait Professional 4.2 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, and Vista
RAM: 256MB