Portrait Professional

12 years 7 months ago #147357 by Tommy Boy
First post for me here. I'm thinking about getting Portrait Professional and wondering how do users like the software. Is it something that get's used for a few weeks, you become bored of it and never use it again? Or is this something that really is helpful and used a lot?


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12 years 7 months ago #147369 by Tamgerine
I've used PP a little bit. It definitely has the capability to go over the top, but if all you're doing is close up portrait work en masse it could be useful to you,

It's alright for a not too expensive program. Keep in mind it won't work right on portraits with a lot of background, and I'm not sure about portraits with multiple people.

Honest opinion, I'd take the money you'd use to buy PP and put it into learning some honest to God retouching skills in Photoshop. Those skills will do a lot more for you in the long run than PP ever will. That sort of skill will transfer to not just portraits but to ever other type of photo retouching/enhancing, and can get you work with other photographers who need to out-source. Retouching skills are something you can legitimately use to market yourself with, PP is just a program with a very limited scope.
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12 years 7 months ago #147377 by Tommy Boy
I do have Photoshop CS5, but was looking for something that could be used for quick portrait touch ups. These portraits are senior portraits that have a fixed back ground. :thumbsup:


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12 years 7 months ago #147378 by chasrich
My opinion is that it does teach you some techniques that will transfer over to another editing program. It works very well and does have some short cuts that could make portrait production faster. Like a good spice you can easily over do it on the adjustments making everyone look like Ken and Barbie or a bug-eyed alien. Fortunaetly it can also make bug-eyed aliens also look human... :rofl:

The good selling point of this application is it does not cost much to try. I don't use it much lately but it was a smart investment for what I got out of it.

“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
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12 years 7 months ago #147410 by photobod
I have thought about it for ages and finaly decided its a no, why, cos I have cs5 and have much more control of what I want to do, its better to do these things individually as everyones face is different and needs individual attention, that way you wont overdo it.

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12 years 7 months ago #147718 by Jim Photo
Fun program, but easy to go over board


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12 years 7 months ago #148255 by Tommy Boy

Jim Photo wrote: Fun program, but easy to go over board


No different than many other programs out there :rofl:

I just downloaded and will start messing around with this soon :beerbang:


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12 years 7 months ago #148294 by lawson fhoto
I do not have portrait professional, but the photographers I chat with that do have the software. Love it. They use it all the time and say it makes their post processing life so much easier.


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