- #IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL MAC OS X#
- #IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL SKIN#
- #IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE#
- #IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL WINDOWS 7#
#IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL SKIN#
Click the links in the caption for larger versions:ĭynamic Skin Softener – click here for largerīoth products create good results, but I find that DSS is a little more aggressive by default. Here’s an image that shows what the skin looks like after the skin softening with Nik Software’s Color Efex Dynamic Skin Softening, and when you hover over it you can see the same image processed with Portraiture. This coupled with the fact that I can make fast adjustments in one pass means I get a a time advantage in my image processing my workflow that make it worth it the switch. Seasoned DSS veterans like me can use both products equally effective, but I still have found that the default settings in Portraiture are better to my personal preferences. Finally Color Efex only has user-definable presets (called Quick Save slots), so you don’t get anything built-in to speed up your workflow. The Nik alternative offers some sliders to control the level of softening, and U-Point controls allow you to disable softening in places. Portraiture offers some handy presets (shown above) that speed up productivity as well as options for enhancing the skin tones (can be disabled).
#IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL MAC OS X#
Portraitures’ User Interface on Mac OS X in 64-bit CS5 with Presets Shown Both products work well, but this is just much faster because I can do it in one quick pass with a few simple clicks. Nik’s Dynamic Skin Softener (DSS) I would have to use multiple U-Point controls and most likely the brush feature of Color Efex to do the same thing, but when skin tones shift quite a bit I find that I have to do multiple layers and sample each of the major tones separately to get them all done very well. The remainder can usually be ignored or masked off with a quick black brush stroke when you return Photoshop, but I usually just leave it alone and most of the time I can isolate my selection to just the skin very quickly. By sampling various spots on the image I was able to isolate most of the skin with minimal impact on the rest of the image. To see what I mean, compare the screen shot above to the shot below (taken from Mac, but both work the same way) and notice the mask preview on the right. While Dynamic Skin Softener (DSS) is a good product and it can be dialed in to get similar softening results, I found the advanced eye dropper and some of the presets in Portraiture to be a big step ahead of what Dynamic Skin Softener can do. However its power lies in the eye dropper too which goes beyond what Color Efex offers and actually lets you do skin samples as much as you like to pinpoint a range of colors that should be impacted by softening. Portraiture’s User Interface appears more complex at first, but it is pretty easy once you realize that it automatically does everything so you could just load it and click OK and get pretty good results most of the time.
#IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL WINDOWS 7#
Portraiture’s User Interface on Windows 7 in 64-bit CS4 I used it and loved it for years, but when Portraiture 2.0 came out I started to find myself going to Portraiture more often to get the job done right very quickly. Included with this product was their crown jewel filter that many photographers use daily – their Dynamic Skin Softener (DSS) filter.
#IMAGENOMIC PORTRAITURE VS PORTRAIT PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE#
I’ve been a big fan of Nik Software since 2007 and the first product I purchased from them was Color Efex. Portraiture –vs– Nik Software’s Dynamic Skin Softener (via Color Efex) Rather than just do a review of Portraiture, I thought it might be fun to add a little user education in it by doing a end to end walkthrough and while I’m discussing how Portraiture and its best competitor – Nik Software’s Dynamic Skin Softener (found in Color Efex) work. Portraiture is my “go to” skin softening product Imagenomic handles this very well in a package that looks intimidating the first time you load it up, but it’s 2.0 improvements help you get the hang of how it works quickly so it grows on your fast. In addition to the automatic mode you can use an eyedropper tool and take multiple samples to get great one pass skin softening on faces with multiple skin tones (i.e., shadows on face, rosy cheeks, etc…) which is something all of the other products I have used have failed to do in just one pass. What this product does is skin softening but in a more subtle yet sophisticated way by automatically detecting the skin surfaces and only applying changes to them. Imagenomic is mostly known for its award winning Noiseware product, but there’s another Imagenomic product that I use all of the time – Portraiture.
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