Better Portraits with Photoshop Plug-in

Portraiture Add-on Helps Makes Bad Skin Look Good in Digital Images

We can over look our shortcomings in the mirror with selective and creative vision. A camera has no such compunctions. When a photograph is taken what you see is what you get. In a studio, with a skilled photographer, miracles can take place. At a family outing, on vacation, or a casual snap over dinner in a restaurant doesn't have the same luxury.

People's skin is not perfect. It's full of pores, freckles, age spots, and blemishes. No wonder so many people hide when a camera comes out. In bad light with a harsh flash these epidermal problems become visually distracting in a photograph.

There is help, in the form of an Adobe Photoshop plug-in called Portraiture, developed by software firm Imagenomic. Fixing skin problems in digital images can be time consuming. If you're not a Photoshop guru your results can look like the attempts of a bad artist trying to replicate the Mona Lisa. With this plug-in skin problems are automatically corrected, leaving photographs anyone would be proud to hang on their walls.

The plug-in analyzes the image and fixes skin problems, while not destroying the fine detail in hair and eyebrows, a common problem when trying to soften an image. The super-intelligent software creates a skin tone mask, based on the tones in an image. This mask is used to create a smoothing effect across the full range of skins tones in a digital photograph, ensuring not only one area of the photo is corrected. There are preset levels that do automatic corrections. These presets can be fine-tuned to achieve your perfect image.

More advanced users can set brightness and contrast, warmth, and, softness and sharpness of an image, to achieve special effects. A number of "glamour" effects are preset, allowing you to change the look of an entire image.

The plug-in can also be used with Photoshop's batch processing feature. Do you have 50 photos that all need Portraiture's assistance? Set up a batch conversion and walk away, Photoshop and the plug-in will do the correction work so you don't have to manually correct all the images.