PortraitPro PPSTUDIOMAXL-EN-12.0.0-SD, PPSTUDIOL-EN-12.0.0-SD User manual

Portrait Professional

User Manual

Version 12.0

Anthropics Technology Ltd

www.portraitprofessional.com

Table of Contents

3Contents

Part I Getting Started

................................................................................................................................... 71 Quick Start Guide

................................................................................................................................... 82 Top Tips For Best Results

................................................................................................................................... 93 Portrait Professional Editions

Part II Step By Step Guide

................................................................................................................................... 141 Open An Image

................................................................................................................................... 152 Automatic Batch Processing

................................................................................................................................... 163 Manual Batch Processing

................................................................................................................................... 174 Enhance Face

................................................................................................................................... 185 Select Face To Enhance

................................................................................................................................... 206 Manually Locate A Face

................................................................................................................................... 227 Adjust The Outlines

................................................................................................................................... 258 Full Body Enhancement

................................................................................................................................... 259 Plug-in Mode

................................................................................................................................... 2710 Group Shots

Part III Reference

................................................................................................................................... 301 Menu Commands Reference

.......................................................................................................................................................... 30File Menu

.......................................................................................................................................................... 32Edit Menu

.......................................................................................................................................................... 32Auto Batch

.......................................................................................................................................................... 33View Menu

.......................................................................................................................................................... 33Help Menu

................................................................................................................................... 342 Controls Panel Reference

.......................................................................................................................................................... 35Zoom Control

.......................................................................................................................................................... 37Presets

.......................................................................................................................................................... 38Slider Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 40Face Sculpt Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 42Skin Smoothing Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 45Skin Lighting Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 46Eye Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 49Mouth & Nose Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 50Hair Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 52Skin Coloring Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 53Picture Controls

.......................................................................................................................................................... 55Skin Area Tools

.......................................................................................................................................................... 56Hair Area Tools

................................................................................................................................... 563 Dialogs Reference

.......................................................................................................................................................... 57Automatic Batch

.......................................................................................................................................................... 59Manual Batch

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.......................................................................................................................................................... 62Select Gender

.......................................................................................................................................................... 62Save Image Options

.......................................................................................................................................................... 63Settings

......................................................................................................................................................... 64General Settings

......................................................................................................................................................... 66Color Settings

......................................................................................................................................................... 68Language Settings

......................................................................................................................................................... 68Plugin

.......................................................................................................................................................... 70Save Preset

.......................................................................................................................................................... 72Manage Presets

................................................................................................................................... 724 Tools Reference

.......................................................................................................................................................... 73Pan Tool

.......................................................................................................................................................... 73Brush Tools

.......................................................................................................................................................... 74Area Brush Tools

.......................................................................................................................................................... 75Crop Tool

................................................................................................................................... 765 Plug-in Installation Guide

................................................................................................................................... 776 Third Party Credits

................................................................................................................................... 817 Supported File Types

................................................................................................................................... 838 Keyboard Shortcuts

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1 Getting Started

Introduction

PortraitPro is the easiest and fastest way to re-touch portraits, allowing you to achieve professional results in minutes.

PortraitPro works in a completely different way to ordinary airbrushing and photo editing software normally used by the pros. PortraitPro has been trained with hundreds of examples of human beauty, and as a result you can add as much or as little photo enhancement as required - by simply moving sliders.

Due to the innate knowledge of human beauty and expert lighting techniques that is built into PortraitPro, the highest quality photo touch-up can be achieved by anyone in just a few minutes.

PortraitPro is available in three editions , Standard, Studio and Studio Max. All editions are covered by this manual.

PortraitPro is available for Windows and Mac computers. This manual is for the Windows PortraitPro.

Getting Started

Take a look at the Quick Start Guide to see a quick overview of how to use PortraitPro. The Step By Step Guide provides more detailed information about each step. If you need further help, please visit www.portraitprofessional.com/support where you see the latest FAQ, and

access our support ticket system. The support ticket system lets you send a question to our support staff.

1.1 Quick Start Guide

PortraitPro will guide you through the process of enhancing a face. You can use this quick start guide to familiarize yourself with the stages.

Select the image to enhance

When you open PortraitPro, you will get the welcome screen. Click on the Open Single Image button, or select Open... from the File menu. This brings up the file open dialog

where you can select the image you want to load. PortraitPro will load your image and show it in the main working area, and then automatically find all the faces

in your image.

Select the face you want to enhance

The next step depends on how many faces are automatically detected in your image.

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If one face is detected

The face is processed and shown in the Enhance Face stage.

Occasionally, the automatic gender detector may be uncertain about the gender, in which case the Select

Gender dialog appears. Press the Female or Male button to select the gender (or Girl or Boy if the face is

that of a young child).

If more than one face is detected

You will be shown all the faces that were detected. You can select one to enhance , or you can manually

locate a face if one was not detected automatically.

After enhancing the first face, press the Other Faces button at the Enhance Face stage to return to the

Select Face stage where you can select the next face to enhance.

If no faces are detected

If no faces are detected automatically, a dialog will appear to let you know. When you close that dialog, you will be at the start of the process to manually locate the face .

View the enhanced image and fine tune the results

Once you have selected a face you will be taken to the Enhance Face stage.

You will see the original portrait on the left of the screen and the enhanced version on the right (you can change this using the View Before And After and View After Only tabs above the picture).

Check the outline positions and gender/age

The outlines will be shown around the face in the before view. Move the control points by clicking and dragging if any are in the wrong place. As you move a control point, the enhanced face in the after view is updated to help you find the best position for the point.

Occasionally, the automatic face detector might find a face where there isn't one. If this happens, just press the white cross at the right of the header above the face to delete the outlines. You will then be able to manually

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locate the face. The gender and age selected by the automatic gender detector is shown in the bar above the face in the before

view. If this is wrong, use the radio buttons in the header above the face to select the correct one. When you move the cursor out of the before view, the controls are hidden to help you compare the before and

after images. To bring back the controls, move the cursor back into the before view.

Check the skin and hair areas

The skin and hair areas are found automatically. You can check that the skin area has been found correctly by pressing the View/Edit Skin Area button in the Skin Smoothing or Skin Lighting sections. You can check that the hair area has been found correctly by pressing the View/Edit Hair Area button in the Hair section. If either area is wrong, use the brushes to fix the area. If the Extend brush is selected, then you can add to the area by painting in the after view. If the Cut Back brush is selected, you can remove from the area.

Fine tune the enhancements using the sliders

Hold down the ENTER key to flip between the before and after picture to see the improvements. To try different types of enhancements, press the Presets button to open the presets section, and then try

some of the presets. You can quickly and easily fine tune any of the enhancements using the controls on the right hand side of the

screen. At any time, you can now save your enhanced portrait by selecting "Save" from the File menu at the top left

of the screen. You can also save the whole project by choosing "Save Session" – this allows you to come back and edit the

portrait at a later time.

Other faces in the photo

If there is more than one face in the picture, press the "Other Faces" button to go back to the Select Face stage.

1.2 Top Tips For Best Results

If you just read one page in this manual, make it this one to get the best results out of PortraitPro.

Make sure the outlines are accurately placed

You will get the best results if the outlines are accurately placed. Although the automatic face finder usually does a good job of placing the outlines, you can sometimes improve the results by adjusting the positions of the outlines. In particular, make sure the outlines around the outside of the face follow the edge of the face. This is especially important if any skin re-lighting is being applied.

Don't push the sliders up too far

Often, you can greatly improve a picture with fairly subtle changes. Push the sliders up just far enough to get the results you want. If you go too far, the result can look unnatural or faked.

Don't use the sliders to fix small blemishes

Standard

Studio

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Automatic batch facility

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Manual batch facility

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Available as a Photoshop plug-in

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Available as an Aperture plug-in

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Available as a Lightroom plug-in

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Read camera RAW format

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You can avoid the need to push the sliders up too far by using the Touch-Up tool to clean up spots and blemishes. This is better than pushing the sliders further up because that affects the whole face.

Make sure the skin area is right

PortraitPro automatically works out which areas in your picture are skin. However, you can sometimes improve the results by adjusting the skin area selected.

Use the skin Extend and Cut Back tools to paint over any skin areas that are wrong.

1.3 Portrait Professional Editions

PortraitPro comes in three editions, Standard, Studio and Studio Max. The Standard edition is intended for more casual users or amateur photographers. The Studio edition is intended for enthusiast or professional users. The Studio Max edition has all the features of the Studio edition, and adds an automatic batch facility for photographers who process a lot of images.

This manual covers all editions, with features that are only available in some editions indicated in one of these ways:

Studio Max Edition Only Studio & Studio Max Editions Only Studio Edition Only

The following table shows the main features of PortraitPro, and which editions they are in.

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Read Adobe DNG format

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Support for JPEG, PNG and TIFF embedded color profiles

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Supports conversion between different color spaces

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Supports setting monitor and working color spaces

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Skin smoothing

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Skin re-lighting

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Skin re-coloring

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Face sculpting

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Eye enhancing

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Hair enhancing

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Mouth enhancing

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Manual touch-up brush

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Picture controls

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Unlimited fully customizable presets

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Enhance more than one person in a photo

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Read and write JPEG, PNG and TIFF format images

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Free online support

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2 Step By Step Guide

This section of the manual describes the various stages that you may need to go through when you use PortraitPro.

The most important stage is the Enhance Face stage, which is where you view and can adjust the enhanced image.

Most of the other stages are only needed if the automatic face detector did not find the face in your image correctly, or if you are enhancing a group shot with several faces in one image.

2.1 Open An Image

The PortraitPro Welcome screen

When you run PortraitPro, it begins with the welcome screen:

Open a single image

To open an image to enhance, either:

· Press the Open Single Image button, or

· Select the Open command in the File menu .

This will bring up the File Open panel. Browse to the file you want to enhance, and press the Open button.

Image types that PortraitPro can open .

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Once the image has been opened, PortraitPro will automatically detect all faces in the image, and determine their gender.

If one face is found, then you will be taken to the Enhance Face stage. If more than one face is found, you will be taken to the Select Face stage. If no faces are found, you will be asked to manually locate the face .

Open a batch of images

If you have the Studio or Studio Max edition of PortraitPro , you will be able to open batches of images for faster working.

The Studio Max edition has automatic batch processing . The Studio edition has manual batch processing .

2.2 Automatic Batch Processing

Studio Max Edition Only

The Studio Max edition has automatic batch processing that lets you load a batch of images and have them all processed automatically.

It lets you easily view each one to make any adjustments needed.

Opening a batch of images

To open a batch of images to process automatically, press the Open Image Batch button on the start screen. This will bring up a File Open panel. Browse to the folder containing the files you want to enhance, and select the images you want to enhance. You can select more than one image in the File Open panel by holding down the CTRL key while clicking on

each image you want to add, or by dragging a box around several images.

Set the save options

Once you have selected one or more images to open, you will see the Auto Batch Save Options dialog.

Use this to set where and how the enhanced images should be saved, and defaults for gender, age and the preset to use.

Press OK on this panel to continue. Note, if you cancel the panel at this stage, the auto-batch will be closed.

Processing

While an automatic batch is open, you will see a film strip panel that shows thumbnails of all the images in the batch.

The screen-shot above shows the film strip on the left. It also shows the summary view in the main window, and the auto-batch controls in the control panel.

The images will be processed automatically. The processing is performed in two passes. The first pass just

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finds all the faces in each image. The second pass enhances each face. If the Auto Save check-box on the Auto Batch Save Options dialog is checked, then each image is saved

during a third pass. At all times, this summary screen shows the state of each image.

Checking the results

Click on an image to select it. You will then see that image in the main window. If the image has been processed, you will be able to view and adjust the enhanced face (or faces if there is more than one).

It is strongly recommended that you check each image, since the automatic face finder can sometimes misplace the outlines which can cause problems with the enhanced image.

The main things to check for each face in each image are:

· Check that the outlines follow the edge of each feature, and the edge of the face (especially the chin).

· Check that the skin and hair areas are correct.

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· Check that the gender and age is correct. When you are happy with the result for an image, clicking on another image or going back to the summary view

and the image you were just viewing will be saved. To get back to the summary screen shown in the screen-shot above, either click on the Show Summary button

at the top of the film-strip, or select the Show Summary menu command in the Auto Batch menu .

2.3 Manual Batch Processing

Studio Edition Only

The Studio edition has manual batch processing that lets you load a batch of images and easily work through them.

To use the manual batch processing, select the Open Batch command from the File menu . This will bring up the Batch dialog that lets you add files to the batch, and set the options for how the

images will be saved when you move to the next image in the batch. When you use the manual batch processing, each image is loaded as if you had opened it in the usual way,

but without having to keep continually bringing up the file open dialog. In addition, each image is saved to the folder selected in the Batch dialog without having to use the file save

dialog for every image. This is done by using the Save And Open Next command after each image has been enhanced. This

command is in the File menu , and is also or by pressing the Save And Open Next button on the toolbar when enhancing a face . This command is only shown if a manual batch session is active.

2.4 Enhance Face

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After you have opened an image and the face has been detected, you are ready to start enhancing the face .

Viewing the result

You can choose whether you want to see the before and after image side by side, or whether you just want the enhanced image as large as possible. Use the tabs above the images to select which option you prefer.

Whichever option you use, you can always flip the enhanced ("after") image back to the original ("before") image to see the changes by pressing and holding the Enter key.

Important things to check

When you get to this stage for the first time with a new face, there are a few of things that you should check before trying different presets or adjusting the sliders. These are:

Check the outlines

The outlines will have been automatically placed around the face. These are shown over the face in the before view, so make sure the View Before and After tab is selected.

If the outlines do not appear, move the mouse into the before view to make them reappear. The outlines should follow the edges of the features, and the edge of the face. If any are wrongly positioned,

move them into the correct place by moving the control points. To move a control point, move the mouse over it until you see an orange cross, then click and hold down the mouse left button. Move the mouse to reposition the point, and then release the button.

Check the skin and hair areas

The skin and hair areas will have been automatically detected. To check these, use the skin area and hair

area tools.

Check the gender and age category

The gender and age category (adult or child) will have been automatically detected. This is shown in the header above the face. If this is wrong, move the mouse into the header to open it (if it is not already open), and you will be shown a set of radio buttons that let you changed the gender and age category.

Note that this setting is used to help create the best result when enhancing the face. It cannot be used to change the appearance of the face to be the opposite gender or to change the apparent age.

Changing the result

PortraitPro will automatically enhance your image when you reach this stage. See presets for how to

configure this default enhancement. You can change how the image is enhanced by moving the sliders in the controls panel .

The sliders are grouped into sections that control various aspects of the face. When you first enter this stage, the Face Sculpt Controls and Skin Controls sections are open, and the others are closed. Sections can

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be opened or closed by clicking on their title button. This has a small triangle pointing down if the section is open, or right if the section is closed.

Try moving the Master Fade slider in each section to get an idea of the overall effect controlled by that section. The lower sliders in each section give you finer control over the effect.

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PortraitPro also comes with a set of presets , which set some or all of the sliders to pre-defined values to get a particular effect. You can go through these to see some of the types of enhancement possible for your photo.

Saving the result

To save the result, select the Save command from the File Menu or from the Next button at the top left. This lets you save the enhanced image.

The Save Jpg/Tiff/Png option allows you to select the file format in which to save the image. If you would like to save all the settings so that you can reload your image and continuing adjusting the sliders,

select the Save Session command from the File Menu . This saves the original image, all the point positions, the skin and hair areas and all the sliders values into a proprietary ".ppx" file.

2.5 Select Face To Enhance

After you have opened an image, PortraitPro shows the image in the Select Face stage if either more than one face was detected, or no faces were found.

You can also go to this stage at any time by selecting the Enhance Another Face In This Photo command in the File menu, or by pressing the Other Faces button in the toolbar at the Enhance Face stage.

Outlines are shown around each face. Check the gender and age category for the face, and then press the Continue button over the face to enhance that face. You will be taken to the next stage where you can check and adjust the outlines .

If you come back to this stage after a face has already been enhanced, you will see an extra button over the face called Adjust Outlines. Press this button to go the stage where you can adjust the outlines. The Continue button will take you straight to the Enhance Face stage when the face has already been enhanced.

Sometimes, you may find that a face has been detected in part of the image where there is no face. You can

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Control

Description

Gender Indicator/Selector

This is shown in the header bar. When you move the mouse into the header bar, it will open to let you set the gender and age category of the face. PortraitPro needs to know the gender of the face since it has been trained separately on what makes female and male faces attractive.

Delete Button

This is the cross at the right of the header bar. Press this to delete all the data that PortraitPro has stored for this face.

Continue Button

Selects the face to be enhanced. The first time a face is selected, this will take you to the Adjust Outlines stage where you can view and adjust the outlines. If the face has already been enhanced, you can press this button to make further changes.

Adjust Outlines Button

This button only appears if the face has already been enhanced. It lets you make changes to the outlines around the features. Note that you can also adjust the outlines at the Enhance Image stage, but you may prefer to make these changes in the Adjust Outlines stage where you are also shown how the outlines should be positioned in a reference image.

Gender not set. If either the Select or Adjust Outlines buttons are pressed when the gender is not set, the Select Gender dialog will be shown so that you can set the gender before going to the stage requested.

Gender is female.

Gender is male.

Gender is female, and the face is a girl younger than about 12 years old.

just ignore these extra faces, since no changes will be made to that part of the image provided you don't select that face. You can always delete any set of outlines around a face by clicking on the cross at the top right of the face.

Enhancing a face that was not detected automatically

If the face you want to enhance was not detected (so there are no outlines around it), press the New Face button in the control panel. This will let you locate a face manually.

Controls for each face

For each face that has been located (whether automatically or manually), the outlines will be shown around that face.

In addition, a header bar will be shown above the face, and below this, the Select and Adjust Outline buttons. The header bar will be blue for faces that have not yet been enhanced, and green for those that have.

Gender symbols

The gender is shown using one of the following symbols:

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Gender is male, and the face is a boy younger than about 12 years old.

When one of the child genders is selected, this will reduce the changes that can be applied to the shape of the face, since generally changing the shape of a child's face is undesirable.

2.6 Manually Locate A Face

If the face in your image was not detected automatically, you will need to locate it manually. To locate a face manually, you first need to press the New Face button at the Select Face stage. This will first ask you to set the gender for the new face, as described below.

Select the gender

PortraitPro needs to know the gender of the face being enhanced. This is because some of the enhancements depend on the gender to give the best result possible.

Press the Female button if the face is an adult female (keyboard shortcut: f). Press the Male button if the face is an adult male (keyboard shortcut: m). Press the Girl button if the face is an adult female (keyboard shortcut: g). Press the Boy button if the face is an adult male (keyboard shortcut: b). PortraitPro will automatically advance to the next step once you have selected the gender.

Enhancing skin only

If there is no face in the picture, press the Enhance Skin Only button. When you press this button, you will then be asked to select the skin area by painting over it using brush tools.

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This option is only intended to be used if you want to use the skin enhancing when there is no face in the picture. If there is a face, you will get much better results if you select the gender and follow the usual steps to position the lines over the face. This will also usually be quicker since the skin area will be automatically selected.

If the Enhance Skin Only button is not shown, you need to enable it using the Show "Enhance Skin Only"

Button check-box in the General Settings dialog.

Adjust the image orientation

If your image is not the right way up, click on one of the buttons at the bottom of the controls panel. This will rotate your image in the direction shown by the arrows.

Note that you need to change the orientation before selecting the gender, since PortraitPro automatically advances to the next step when you select the gender.

Locate 5 key features on the face

After you have selected the gender, the next step is to locate the positions of 5 key features on the face.

The 5 key features are:

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Locating the feature points

As you click on each point, PortraitPro will automatically move on to the next point. You will be shown an example image to help you know where to place each point. You can adjust the position of any points you have already marked by clicking on one of those points and

dragging it. The cursor will have a small text label next to it to remind you which point you are locating. These labels can be

turned off if you don't like them using the General Settings panel.

Zooming In

To help you to position the points more accurately, you can hold down the CTRL key to zoom in on the cursor.

Profile views

If the face is viewed side on, press the Profile View button at the bottom of the control panel. If you are not sure whether the face is being viewed in profile or not, the main test is whether you can see both

eyes. If you can't see one of the eyes due to the head being turned, press the Profile View button. When you press the Profile View button, you will only need to locate one eye point, the nose tip, and one mouth

point.

Adjust the outlines

After you have located the 5 key features, PortraitPro will automatically place the outlines over the face and show you the outlines in the Adjust Outlines stage.

If any of the outlines are misplaced, correct these by moving the control points, before pressing the Next button to go to the Enhance Face stage where you can view and adjust the enhanced image.

2.7 Adjust The Outlines

Viewing and moving the outlines

The Adjust Outlines stage shows the outlines around the current face, and lets you adjust their positions. Note that this stage is optional, since the outlines will be automatically placed around each face when you load

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For best results:

an image. If any of the outlines are misplaced, these can be moved at the enhance image stage in the

before view. However, if the automatic face finder has failed to find a face in your image, this stage lets you position the outlines manually.

This stage is reached in one of these ways:

· Press the Back button at the Enhance Face stage, or

· Press the Adjust Outlines button over a face at the Select Face stage, or

· While manually locating a face .

If any of the outlines are not shown correctly around the features of the face, they should be moved to the correct place. A reference image in the control panel shows how the outlines should be positioned.

Adjusting the outline

The outline is shown as blue lines overlaid over your image in the main working view. The lines can be moved by dragging the control points.

The control points are shown differently depending on how they were set:

· The small yellow squares - these are points that have been placed by the automatic feature finder. If any of these points are in the wrong place, you will need to move them manually to the correct place.

· The small blue squares - these are points that you have placed.

· The light green circles - these are points that have been automatically placed based on where the

other points are. Any of these points may move if any other points are moved.

Whenever you drag a control point, it will turn into a blue square to let you know that it is a point that you have positioned.

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· Try to move as few points as possible to line up the outline.

· Any points you do move, try to move as little as possible. If you spend a long time carefully

adjusting every point, not only are you wasting time, but you are likely to end up with a worse result.

· Start by moving points that are already fixed - those shown as small yellow or blue squares. The more points you can leave as small green circles, the better.

To adjust the outlines around the eyes or mouth more accurately, click inside the dotted rectangles to zoom in on that feature. Click again to zoom back out.

Once the outlines are correctly positioned (or if no adjustment is necessary), press the space bar or click on the Next button.

Adjusting the iris and pupil outlines

Two circles are shown inside the eye. The smaller (green) circle should fit around the pupil (the black part in the middle of the eye). The larger (blue) circle should fit around the iris (the colored part of the eye). These circles are positioned automatically, so you will not usually need to adjust them.

To move the circles, drag the point in the center of the circles. To resize the circles, drag the outline in or out. If the iris is not exactly circular, you can drag on the four small blue squares on the iris outline to make it an

ellipse. If the center of the iris and the pupil are not exactly the same, you can move the pupil independently of the iris

by first clicking on the pupil circle, and then dragging the center point. To go back to moving the iris and pupil together, either click on the iris circle, or move the cursor away from the eye and back again.

Adjusting the outline for each feature

For greater accuracy, you can ask PortraitPro to show a zoomed in view of the main parts of the face to make it easier to check the positions of the outlines. This is done by clearing the Skip Zoomed In Steps When Adjusting Outlines check-box in the General Settings panel.

This will happen automatically for profile (side-on) faces regardless of this setting, since the automatic feature finder does not support profile views.

PortraitPro will take you to each of the features in turn so that you can check, and if necessary, adjust the positioning of the selected outline of each feature.

The features are shown in the following order.

Left eye and eyebrow

The left eye outline is set automatically. If it does not go correctly around the eye, adjust it by moving the control points.

Depending on the shape of the eyebrow, it can be difficult to get the outline to fit around the eyebrow. In these cases, it is best to not worry about it and just get the position roughly correct. Even if you are able to get the outline to fit around the eyebrow reasonably well, if you had to move the points a lot to get it to fit, you may get a better result by moving the points less even if the eyebrow outline no longer goes around the eyebrow accurately.

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Mouth Open

Press this button if the mouth of the face you are enhancing is open. You will then see four lines between the corners of the mouth. The top two should be positioned around the upper lip, and the bottom two around the lower lip. If the line along the bottom of the top lip is placed close to the line along the top of the bottom lip, you will see the line along the top of the bottom lip disappear leaving just the control point in the middle. The mouth will then be treated as closed anyway.

Mouth Closed

Press this button if the mouth is closed. You will then see only three lines between the corners of the mouth. The center line should be placed along the line where the lips meet.

If you are used to pressing the spacebar to quickly move on to the next stage, note you can also use this to dismiss the dialog asking if the mouth is open or closed. If this happens, the mouth will be selected as being open. If the mouth is in fact shut, you can either press the Back button followed by the Next button, and the panel will appear again, or you can simply move the middle two lines together.

Right eye and eyebrow

The same comments about the left eye and eyebrow apply to the right eye and eyebrow.

Nose and Mouth

When you get to this stage the Mouth Open Or Closed panel will appear, provided it has not been turned off in the General Settings . This panel has two buttons:

Face outline

Try to avoid moving the face outline points around the face, just move them towards or away from the center of the face.

Once you have been through all the features, press the Next button one more time to start PortraitPro processing your image. You will then be taken to the Enhance Image stage, where the fun begins!

2.8 Full Body Enhancement

PortraitPro is designed to enhance portrait photos. However, if your photo includes other parts of the body, then you can use the skin enhancement tools on other

parts of the skin that can be seen. To do this, all you need to do is make sure that the PortraitPro knows which parts of the photo are skin. This is

done using the skin area tools, as described in Skin Area .

2.9 Plug-in Mode

Using the PortraitPro Plug-in

Studio & Studio Max Editions Only

The Studio edition of PortraitPro can enter a "plug-in mode". This is intended for use when PortraitPro has been launched by another application (such as Photoshop) to enhance an image that is being managed by the

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other application. PortraitPro then behaves like a plug-in to the other application. After the plug-in has been successfully installed as outlined in the Plug-in Installation Guide , you will be

able to use PortraitPro as a plug-in in any of the supported photo editing applications. When PortraitPro is run as a plug-in from another application, the image or layer in the other application will

automatically be loaded into PortraitPro where you can enhance the faces in the usual way. Once you are happy with your results, press the Return From Plugin button on the toolbar at the Enhance Face stage.

This will close PortraitPro and return the enhanced image to the original application. When PortraitPro is in plug-in mode, the following changes occur:

· The only command in the File menu is Return From Plugin.

· The crop tool is not available when in plug-in mode, since the other application will generally expect the

image to still be the same size after it has been enhanced by PortraitPro.

Using PortraitPro from Photoshop

When the plug-in has been installed, PortraitPro will appear as a filter in Photoshop. In the Photoshop Filter menu, you will find a sub-menu called Anthropics, and in that you will find PortraitPro.

The PortraitPro filter works like other Photoshop filters in that it is applied to the current selection (or the whole area if there is no selection) on the current layer. When you select the filter, the image being filtered will automatically be opened in PortraitPro.

Plug-in Location: Filter> Anthropics> PortraitPro

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