Portrait AI Helps Out

It is my belief that Portrait AI features in photo editing software can help photographers enhance their portraits and avoid a lot of tedium. I don’t regularly take portraits (other than family, which I very rarely post online). The software I have, ON1 Photo RAW and Luminar Neo both offer powerful AI-powered portrait features that speed up post-processing and also achieve great results. By automating the tedious task of skin retouching and facial feature adjustments, like teeth and eye whitening.

My current favourite is ON1 Photo RAW which includes AI-powered features like face detection and skin retouching. With AI-powered face detection, the software will automatically detect the faces in your photos, making it easier to apply targeted edits that are in line with your style. The skin retouching feature allows you to quickly and easily smooth out blemishes, wrinkles, and other imperfections in your subject's skin and identify and work on key facial features.

Luminar Neo also offers powerful portrait AI features, including AI Skin Enhancer and AI Portrait Enhancer. The AI Skin Enhancer feature allows you to quickly and easily smooth out skin imperfections, while the AI Portrait Enhancer can help you adjust your subject's face shape, eye size, and other facial features, the face-thinning and eye-widening are a little over the top but have been fun to play with.

Portrait AI features are now widely available in photo editing software, but have not been heavily promoted or hyped as much as sky replacement AI, however it does offer photographers powerful tools to enhance their portraits with ease. Many of the alterations are very subtle but that's good. I'd be interested to find out if professional portrait and wedding photographers are taking advantage of these tools and what their clients think?

Ps I’ve given Chatgpt a second chance, to edit my text for this post. I’ve still had tone it back down a little but it hasn’t introduce half truth or outrageous claims this time.