COMPANY: anthropics technology | URL: www.portraitprofessional.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Windows | PRICE: $99.95
		Portrait Professional is a sophisticated computer program that has been trained in male and female beauty. The software has been shown hundreds of examples of beautiful photographs of human faces, and using sophisticated statistical techniques, it has learned how to subtly enhance photographs and make them more attractive. What does this mean for you? It means that you can give photographs an automatic and rapid makeover to correct lighting and makeup effects, remove blemishes and generally make your subjects look at their very best. Portrait Professional requires no artistic skill. All you have to do is identify some points on the photograph, such as the corners of the eyes and the edges of the lips, and the software then calculates how to bring out the very best in your subject. Before-and-after examples can be seen above. Portrait Professional is designed to give all photographers (from keen amateur to industry professional) maximum flexibility and control. You can choose exactly how much to enhance lighting, skin textures, facial sculpting, white balance and the signs of aging or blemishes. This technology exists to save you the hours of time that you would otherwise have spent enhancing portraits with Photoshop. Versions Portrait Professional has been designed for photographers and retouch artists. Not everybody using this software demands the same levels of control, flexibility and speed that this fast-moving industry dictates, so in order to appeal to a wider audience there is a lighter version available, called “MyPerfectPicture.” MyPerfectPicture is aimed at home users and people who are interested in photography as a hobby rather than a profession. The package still offers excellent results in under 2 minutes–just like Portrait Professional–but some of the more precise controls and features that are less important to the occasional user have been removed. As the software improves over time you’ll continue to see new functions and improvements added to both packages, but the essence of MyPerfectPicture will always be to provide a “light” version of this professional editing package which is tailored and priced appropriately for the less demanding user.