My wife with PP by Portrait Professional.

[Garry Lee]

Mary 580_pp by gearoidmuar

This is a piece of software I downloaded last year (on Mac) and it's used for post-precessing portraits.
If you let it it will change the shape of the face, widen the gaze etc., but I only use it for emphasising the eyes (it makes them sparkle somehow) and smoothening the skin. I used it on about 3 photos of a wedding I shot last October.
It's cheap, and if you're into Portraiture, it's worth it.

This example is probably slightly overdone. Mary is 61 and her two most notable features are her skin and eyes. She had sensational skin when she was young and never wore makeup on it.

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice portrait Garry. Very restrained PP. Some of these packages have a tendency to turn people into plastic. And what's worse, due to the advertising shots we see in magazines these days, people seem to think that's OK.

 

[Brian Moore]

She still has sensational skin, Garry. Very nice shot.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Very nice shot Garry - looks very natural, and the lighting is lovely - was it a window?

Will check out the software, sounds interesting - used to do all of that stuff manually back in the day - amazing how a small tweak can completely transform the look of an image.

 

[Emma Pugh]

Beautiful shot!

 

[Darren Turner]

i to have that software, it is very clever and very powerful but as already mentioned it can easily over cook it if your not carefull

In this case its been used as it should just for i guess subtle enhancements

great shot

Daz