PortraitPro Changelog

What's new in PortraitPro 17.0.2

Sep 21, 2017
  • NEW Background editing
  • NEW Snapshots - save your progress and easily revert back
  • NEW Advanced preset controls
  • NEW Vignette
  • More makeup options
  • Realistic skin tone and texture
  • Faster and easier

New in PortraitPro 15.0.5 (Sep 15, 2015)

  • Now with makeup controls, also Mac Retina and Hi Res display support.
  • PortraitPro v15 contains many new features including an entirely new menu offering fully realistic makeup controls. Unlike many other digital makeup apps, PortraitPro 15's controls are based on advanced research into real cosmetics, giving you the industry's most natural results.

New in PortraitPro 12.1.5 (Mar 6, 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.
  • Automatic batch processing (Studio Max edition only):
  • Our top end StudioMax edition of the software not only includes the most natural and sophisticated portrait enhancement available, including face re-lighting, but also now includes completely automatic processing of large batches of photographs, so whole jobs of many hundreds of pictures can be processed automatically.
  • 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 11.2.4 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Fixed crashing issue on Mac OSX 10.5.8
  • Added PNG support
  • Added Elements 11 AppStore plugin support.
  • Fixed issue where RAW loader may not be updated when installing an update.
  • Updated RAW Support.
  • Updated handling of Saved Sliders.
  • Color Representation & Compressed bits/pixel now retained when saving.
  • Various other Minor bug fixes.

New in PortraitPro 11.1.13 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Added Language Support for French & German.
  • Added CTRL+Scroll functionality to modify zoom level.
  • Images added for Children.
  • Back Button now leaves Skin/Hair Area and returns to Enhance Stage instead of Outline Confirmation.
  • Various Bug fixes.

New in PortraitPro 10.2.3 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Fixed crash that sometimes happens when you crop and then save.
  • Maximum preset column width increaed
  • About and preferences menu items now appear in correct place on Mac
  • Now includes foreign languages: French,Spanish,Itallian,Portuguese
  • New plug-in installer for Photoshop/Aperture plug-ins
  • Studio trial edition now includes Photoshop/Aperture plug-in
  • Fixes some problems with tablets

New in PortraitPro 10.1.6 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • Now uses user's home folder as default folder for file open dialog when PP first run
  • Example images are not listed in the recent files in the file menu
  • Fixed wrong color space being used when 2nd face being marked up and use icc from picture set
  • Fixed problem with hair tidying changes not being undoable
  • Memory requirements back to being the same as 10.1.3
  • Added Ctrl+L cmd to store license for all users of machine
  • Added help button to settings dlg
  • Now always tries to load unknown file extensions as raw
  • Fixed excessive memory requirements
  • Fixed std edition not preserving color profile
  • Fixed crash in iris finder when iris is close to edge of image
  • Fixed problem with tablets in mouse mode on Windows

New in PortraitPro 10.1 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • memory usage optimizations
  • presets for women & men no longer set any hair tidying sliders
  • "Close & Return" plug-in File menu item renamed to "Save & Return"
  • "Next Face" button at final stage reverted back to drop down menu of commands
  • fixed background going white when dragging slider on Mac
  • fixed update checker not properly comparing versions
  • fixed problem with touch up brush on grayscale images
  • fixed problem with some sliders on very small images
  • fixed bug when rotated image saved (reloaded in wrong orientation)
  • fixed touchup & restore strength slider
  • fixed dcraw bug which made canon cr2 images with width=5344 load into a buffer 4x too wide