Good News: ArcSoft Portrait+™1.1 Is Released Today

Buried in the repetitive work of portraits retouching, have you ever wished to be saved from inefficiency and low productivity? Have you ever hoped to earn more money and expand your business? Hooray, photographers, here comes the rescue - ArcSoft Portrait+.

Anyone who has used Portrait+ will find it is an effective tool for batch-processing portrait photos. With only 4 steps, hundreds of photos will be retouched in minutes. It helps a lot for professional photographer to save more time but improve productivity.

And today, I’m glad to notice that Portrai+ has upgraded to a new version 1.1. It now supports up to 8 languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and English. And a dynamic user guide leads to quick startup while the control area of key points has been enlarged for easier manual adjustment. Besides, it provides a new result comparison interface, eliminating the need to click sequentially to select the best retouched photos.

Aiming at improving user experience, ArcSoft always devote large time and money on producing better products. And it will work hard and providing more efficient solutions to the photography worldwide.

For more information about Portrait+TM 1.1 and to download a free trial version, please visit: www.arcsoft.com/portraitplus/

Tricks for Portrait Professional

Portrait Professional from Anthropics technology aims at retouching portraits quickly and easily. Excellent airbrushing technology helps to satisfy a great number of customers. Now, let’s find out why Portrait Professional is so popular.

How it works?

After opening an image, select a gender and pinpoint the facial features. After locating 5 key facial points manually, it can automatically detect your face. It is easy to apply different styles to a single photo. 

Sculpt your face

After simply pointing out the key features, the application will automatically enhance the photos. If necessary, you can adjust the key points. But modifying the control too much may lead to a change of identity. A slight enhancement is recommended to make desirable results.

Customize your ideal styles

We provide more than 30 preset styles. All the templates are able to be customized and saved. Next time, those templates can be applied directly.

Apply Restore Brush

After retouching, you may find that the accessories are blurred. Use the restore brush to correct any loss of definition.

Use master fade slider for quick enhancement

For beginners, it is recommended to use the master fade slider for enhancement. For a quick adjustment it is better to adjust the master fade slider to quickly retouch photos.

It can’t be denied that Portrait Professional is an expert in enhancement. But, it can’t deal with many photos at once or detect all the faces in one photo. For professional photographers, it is indeed time-consuming. If Portrait Professional had the function of batch-processing like Portrait+, it would be much more appreciated.

A Simple Exercise to Improve Your Portrait Photography

Photography is a gear based pastime, and because of this, it’s easy to overcomplicate a shoot by taking more equipment than you actually need. To shoot simply, you may benefits a lot. When I surf on the Internet, I find some interesting tips which may facilitate you to make a perfect portrait photos.

Simple portrait exercise

The idea is to shoot in black and white, with just one camera and one lens, in natural light. The aim is to keep your approach simple so that you can concentrate on your rapport with your model and posing and composition. Using black and white will test your composition skills.

                                                                                                                                              

Here are a few ideas to help your shoot run smoothly:

Build rapport with your model. This is really important, for fairly obvious reasons, especially if you don’t know them well. If you show a genuine interest in your model he or she will respond to your ideas and become involved in your shoot. They are more likely to be willing to help you out with future shoots. You might even make a good friend.

Communicate your ideas. You can do this by showing your model any sample photos you have prepared, and also by showing the images on the camera’s screen at intervals during the shoot. The more your model buys into your vision of what you want to achieve with the harder they will work to help you achieve it.

Pay attention to what’s happening behind your model. Keep the composition simple and try to avoid messy or bright backgrounds.

Relax. Have fun. Enjoy yourself.

(pictures&tips below are quoted from Andrew S Gibson's blog)

Portrait+, auto retoucher for portraits.

Buried in the repetitive work of portraits retouching, have you ever wished to be saved from inefficiency and low productivity? Have you ever hoped to earn more money and expand your business? Hooray, photographers, here comes the rescue - ArcSoft Portrait+.

Portrait+ is a style-based auto retoucher for portrait photos. And it is especially designed for professional photo studios, portrait studios and photo labs to resolve the most time-consuming problem during the photo optimization.

This application supports JPG/TIFF formats. The maximum supported resolution is 8000*8000 and the minimum is 480*480. Its operation is quite easy. With only four steps, a portrait is automatically retouched. Neither training nor professional skill is required.

With a single click, a large amount of photos are quickly imported. You have no need to choose them one by one. After that, portraits can be retouched quickly and automatically with your desired effects. And at last all the photos can be batch exported in a minute. Due to the batch process function, it is possible for Portrait+ to deal with hundreds of photos at one time and save more time for you.

Based on world’s leading facial detection technology, Portrait+ puts simple but powerful tools at your fingertips. Therefore, it is able to detect up to 20 faces in one photo. Furthermore, it can precisely pinpoint your facial features including nose, mouth, ears, eyes and eyebrows. The whole process is completely automatic, which largely enhance your productivity. But if necessary, users can manually adjust those key feature points for optimization.

As a user-friendly software, Portrait+ is professional in simplifying the complicated process of retouching portrait photos. It provides up to 20 pre-set cleanse and makeup styles, such as Cleanse light, Cleanse & White Skin, Makeup – Breeze. All of these pre-set styles enable you to achieve natural-looking results with the stunning enhancement tool. At the same time, multiple results could be exported from a single photo with different styles for comparison.

If you want more information, please visit: http://www.arcsoft.com/portraitplus/