Portraiture for Adobe Lightroom eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by-pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching.

Imagenomic's Portraiture is a powerful but user-friendly plug-in for Lightroom. It's an effective tool for smoothing skin while maintaining texture for realistic results-a fine line that all portrait photographers must be aware of. The program automatically detects the subject's skin and creates a mask, which can be tweaked if needed. There are plenty of options for refining the portrait with tools to adjust hue, saturation, luminance and latitude. A separate Enhancements panel provides sliders for a range of parameters including sharpness, tint, brightness, and contrast for fine-tuning the overall look and feel of a portrait. And if you're not sure exactly what you want, the program has a bracketing feature so you can choose from several variations of the same image. A handful of presets are available to get you started but you can create and save your own, along with a space for your notes so you can mix and match them each time you shoot a portrait under similar conditions.

Compatibility: OS X 10.10 or later 64-bit
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