PortraitPro Changelog

What's new in PortraitPro 18.1.2

Oct 24, 2018
  • NEW! A.I. Powered Editing - the most accurate face and feature finding.
  • NEW! Advanced Layers Functionality
  • NEW! Global Restore Brush
  • NEW! Photoshop Smart Filter (Studio edition only)
  • Faster and easier

New in PortraitPro 17.0.2 (Sep 21, 2017)

  • Background Editing:
  • For the first time ever, you can now edit your subject and your background without leaving PortraitPro. Choose from four different styles including a New Image option for inserting your own background.
  • Snapshots:
  • Be more adventurous with your editing. Snapshots let you save your progress so you can try something different and easily revert back if you change your mind.
  • Advanced preset controls:
  • Every photographer has their own style and your photo-editing software should be the same. Create custom presets using your favorite tools and you can edit your images with just a few clicks. Build your own makeup looks or even just save your favorite skin smoothing settings to use time and time again.
  • Photographers using PortraitPro Studio Max with automatic batch processing can use custom presets to make batch editing even easier. Save hours of manual work, just create a preset based on a single image and apply this to every image in a batch.
  • Vignette:
  • PortraitPro 17 gives you more photo-editing tools in one place. For the first time, create classic portraits with the new vignette tool.
  • More makeup options:
  • Three fashionable new Bronzer styles to flatter your subject. Choose from real makeup looks which sculpt or soften the facial features.
  • Realistic skin texture & tone:
  • Keep your retouching naturally gorgeous. Say goodbye to “plastic” skin with the texture controls and the new Sharpen tool. Give your subject a genuine glow with the improved tan controls.
  • Advanced automatic face-detection technology, updated interface and faster software work together to make it even easier to edit your portraits quickly and simply.

New in PortraitPro 15.0.5 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • Full Makeup Controls - new PortraitPro 15 offers a full set of makeup enhancements, our most requested new feature. Based on advanced research into real cosmetics, PortraitPro 15 delivers natural results with intuitive slider controls:
  • Bronzing, highlighting and blusher to emphasize and flatter the subject's features
  • Photo-realistic mascara brings out the eyes.
  • Choose from the most fashionable eyeliner styles.
  • A full spectrum of eyeshadow colors and shapes to choose from.
  • Lipstick color and texture options for the look you want.
  • Correct Wide Angle Lens Distortion:
  • The new Lens Correction slider fixes distortion caused by a wide-angle lens (commonly known as selfie distortion), creating more natural-looking, flattering portraits.
  • Advanced Skin Coloring Controls:
  • Brand new skin coloring options allow you to intelligently correct for any lighting situation and give skin a healthy, natural glow.
  • Improved Mouth Detection:
  • PortraitPro 15 incorporates innovative new technology to improve mouth detection for a faster, more automated editing process.
  • New Child Mode:
  • New in PortraitPro 15, Child Mode brings out children’s natural beauty. All enhancements have been optimized to sensitively improve the portrait.

New in PortraitPro 12.2.1 (Jun 19, 2015)

  • new skin recoloring engine introduced (Color Correct slider under Skin Coloring Controls)
  • minor bug fixes
  • fixed minor typos in localised strings

New in PortraitPro 12.2.0 (Jun 19, 2015)

  • Added German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese languages
  • Fixed file saving bug where .jpg was created instead of a .tiff
  • Fixed UI bug when touch-up brush knocked the Controls Panel off the screen

New in PortraitPro 12.1.9 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • World First - Face re-lighting:
  • PortraitPro now contains unique technology to enable you to improve the lighting in your portraits, after the event. Instead of just airbrushing away faults, you can now actually show your subject in their best light, to achieve more natural or more dramatic effects
  • Improved skin enhancing:
  • Version 12 contains new Clearskin4 technology which allows you to quickly and easily eliminate skin faults such as wrinkles and spots, and smooth the skin while retaining the original skin texture for more natural and realistic results.
  • Improved face slimming & sculpting:
  • Well judged face slimming makes subjects happy and increases revenues! New version 12 incorporates significantly improved face refining and slimming tools to take off the weight that the camera is said to put on.
  • Unique Gender and age detection:
  • To enable the right custom enhancements to be applied to female faces, PortraitPro now automatically detects the gender and age of faces in photographs to enable the right enhancements for female, male or children’s faces to be automatically applied.
  • World’s best face and feature finder:
  • In order to speed up and simplify your workflow, version 12 contains the world’s most accurate commercially available face and feature finder. It has no limit on the number of faces it can find in a photograph, and detects no less than 147 facial feature points, as well as detecting the skin and hair areas.
  • Improved feature enhancing:
  • The new software offers significantly improved eye, teeth and mouth enhancement. Teeth whitening is now more natural, and there are new controls to clean and whiten eyes as well as moisten lips and add subtle yet effective makeup to eyes.
  • Improved skin color correction:
  • Version 12 of the software incorporates sophisticated new skin color correction controls to enable skin tones to be kept as natural as possible.
  • Four times speed improvement:
  • PortraitPro version 12 is four times faster than its predecessor to ensure the fastest and most productive working experience.
  • All editions are now available in 64 bit:
  • To ensure the best possible experience, all PortraitPro editions from standard to Studio and Studio Max are now available in 64 bit editions as well as legacy 32 bit editions, for users of older computers.
  • Facebook integration:
  • PortraitPro has now also been integrated with Facebook, so that you can either post the results of your portrait enhancements to Facebook or post the ‘before’ and ‘after’ images so that the world can see the fruits of your labors.

New in PortraitPro 11.3.2 (May 14, 2013)

  • Many new features including automatic face feature finding and 3rd generation skin processing for the best results ever.

New in PortraitPro 8.1.3 (Sep 13, 2008)

  • Smooth, recolor and thicken the hair
  • Control the eyes and mouth in much greater detail
  • Change the eye color of the subject
  • Save and use multiple changes at once with Saved Slider configurations
  • Improved User Interface: Help, Tutorial and Undo functions making Portrait Professional the easiest to use photo-editing software available

New in PortraitPro 5.0.7 (Jun 2, 2007)

  • Improved ease of use
  • improved image quality
  • greater control