Photographers, models, people who get their pictures taken, and people who look at pictures will benefit from the ideas in this video. Anthropics Technology’s Portrait Pro is a powerful, efficient editing tool for portraits, and it can completely alter how the subject of a photo looks. It’s not a question of can the changes be made. It is a question of should they.
This video is an introductory tutorial to the plugin, and it also discusses the ethical and professional implications of image retouching. It also weighs in on what people looking at such images should think.
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I believe the same, what you see , what you are , every one has a unique identity , we should not lost that, there is always more than a look in a person.
Excellent video but I think that is a situation when you do one use Portrait pro, a year ago I paid a photographer for my daughter‘s wedding and since he was using batch processing I was not happy with the close-up shot, I put them in a Portrait pro and I just give it a little color tiny little bit of ten sharpening and pretty much all the things that you did and they love the pictures, 1 year later my friend of mine‘s daughter got married I was not the official photographer but I took my camera and took a few shots put them in a Portrait pro process the picture and I guess I went to far she did not like it at all, I just bought the software just like a little kid new toy love to pus thinks a little too far but that was a good learning experience.
As far as ethics … it’s up to the subject … so my question would be… do they wear makeup? Well then you could have ethical issues with that … so for me it’s up to the subject 😊👍🏻 great video
Excellent. Advances in retouching tools have made it possible to completely alter a persons appearance and create unrealistic visions of beauty. However, it should be noted that advances in cosmetic surgery, implants, body sculpting and a host of other image altering procedures accomplishes the same thing. Moreover these processes alter human flesh, instead of pixels, and are probably more of a threat to society than an over zealous retoucher. One last thing, while I’m only an amateur retoucher, it is my understanding that the objective of the most high end retouchers is to aid the client in selling a product rather than accurately rendering the model. To place an ethical burden on these professionals about the degree to which they can edit an image, in my opinion, would be an over reach. That said, you have raised an issue worthy of much more discussion. Thank you.
so sick of over altering and low self esteem