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p.1 #1 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

I purchased Portrait Professional about 1 year ago. Could be me but I found it difficult and somewhat useless on some photos. I was thinking about buying Imagenomics. Can anyone please give me some feedback either way before I make the purchase. Currently I am doing most of my skin softening thru steps outlines in Kelby's Photoshop CS3 book.

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Nov 18, 2009 at 08:28 PM

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p.1 #2 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

Buy the whole suite or noiseware and portraiture. I also found other software difficult to use. The noiseware can smoth skin tone but portraiture is so easy to use. I found noiseware easier than noiseninja and felt it worked better.

Nov 18, 2009 at 08:34 PM

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p.1 #3 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

This is what I'm looking for someone that has experienced both. So your saying buy Imagenomic suit. Is the noiseware better than noiseninja which I currently have? Thanks for your reply

Nov 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM

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p.1 #4 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

I've used both and greatly prefer Imaginomics portraiture. I use noiseware as well.

Nov 21, 2009 at 02:28 PM

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p.1 #5 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

I use Portraiture a ton. Highly recommended.

Nov 21, 2009 at 07:56 PM

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p.1 #6 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

hhski wrote:
Buy the whole suite or noiseware and portraiture. I also found other software difficult to use. The noiseware can smoth skin tone but portraiture is so easy to use. I found noiseware easier than noiseninja and felt it worked better.

+1 to that. My experience exactly.

Nov 23, 2009 at 02:09 AM

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p.1 #7 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

If you are doing professional retouching for fashion or beauty, using plugins is a very bad idea for skin regardless.

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:51 PM

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p.1 #8 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

jeremy_clay wrote:
If you are doing professional retouching for fashion or beauty, using plugins is a very bad idea for skin regardless.

That could be why they make PP as a standalone also. I use both PP9 and Imagenomics on my Mac. I tend to use PP9 more. I find that PP9 is easier to use and does a better job. However, you can easily overdo it and make your subjects look plastic. Go easy on the controls and you'll be OK.

Nov 24, 2009 at 12:30 AM

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p.1 #9 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

The cool thing about PP is that is could not be easier to use and it is very fast. Just a couple minutes per picture. I seldom do any fixing to peoples faces except on extreme closeups which I seldom do, so for 5 or 6 photos per shoot it is perfect for me.
I have Imagenomic as well but I never use it. I just haven't taken the time to learn how to use it.

Dec 01, 2009 at 10:41 PM

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p.1 #10 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

jeremy_clay wrote:
If you are doing professional retouching for fashion or beauty, using plugins is a very bad idea for skin regardless.
Can you guys explain please?

Dec 04, 2009 at 12:16 AM

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p.1 #11 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

alex108 wrote:
jeremy_clay wrote:
If you are doing professional retouching for fashion or beauty, using plugins is a very bad idea for skin regardless.
Can you guys explain please?
Nevermind, I got it.

Dec 04, 2009 at 05:33 AM

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p.1 #12 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

Photo Tools by On One is another good choice. (www.ononesoftare.com)
It has a lot of great actions in the set. The degree of correction can be dialed back before importing the layer into CS4.
Once the layer is in, you can do further modification on the layer (like erasing the softness in the eyes and hair for better detail) before flattening the image. I have been using photo tools 1.0 for a couple of years, I know there is a newer version.

Dec 04, 2009 at 11:28 PM

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p.1 #13 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

You can download a demo of Imagenomics Portraiture. So far I like it and I think I will be purchasing it.

As for retouching manually for beauty, yeah that may be true but for normal portrait sessions and weddings, etc. it's hard to justify that amount of PP. And Portraiture does a pretty damn good job if you don't overdo it.

Dec 06, 2009 at 03:52 AM

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p.1 #14 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

My preference is actually Mama Shan's "Mama's Powder" action.

Dec 07, 2009 at 01:53 AM

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p.1 #15 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

Another good discussion of skin softening here if you missed it.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/835342/0?

Dec 09, 2009 at 04:33 AM

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p.1 #16 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

I use both. I like Portraiture for batch processing and for its work on skin. I like the shaping, etc. tools in PP. If I have a large shoot, I batch with Portaiture for the proofs. For orders of individual shots I then I will go in and use PP if it is warranted or the client desires those kinds of changes. But for skin processing I like Portraiture better. The Mama Shan tutorials (I believe they are all still on YOutube) are also very good and the actions are great too. Lots of good options!

Dec 16, 2009 at 05:13 AM

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p.1 #17 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

I did buy Imagenomics and love it more so than PP. But I do see that I will use both softwares for different work.

Dec 16, 2009 at 04:46 PM

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p.1 #18 · Imagenomics vs Portrait Professional 8

Sorry to revive and old thread - I just tried Imagenomics Portraiture and I love it. Are there any advantages to having the LR or CS version for it?

Feb 09, 2010 at 10:33 PM


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