Imagenomic portraiture for lightroom update#

Our eyes don’t perceive people in the same way, which is why we use skin softening plugins or other techniques.

When you put on a flash and get a sharp lens, like my Nikon 70-200mm lens, the camera picks up incredibly fine details. They capture details that we just don’t notice when talking to someone. The reason we use skin softening is that cameras cheat. She’s a lovely girl with a nice complexion. I want to say that there is nothing wrong with the skin of my model. The Unedited Photo For the Skin Softening Plugin Test You buy plugins to save time and to yield results that you may not be able to achieve, depending upon your skill level. I wanted to evaluate the results based upon two criteria: There’s no way I could go into each of them and provide a comprehensive comparison for this post, so I decided to use their default or preset options that seemed most suitable for the test photo. All of these plugins have variables to tweak for fine tuning your results. My criteria for this test is pretty simple. The choice is yours, but just make sure you’ve considered which has more value to you. The price points aren’t terribly far apart, which means you may decide to opt for the tool that gives you the most bang for your buck or for the one that does one thing particularly well.

Some do more than the others, so that ought to weigh into your own purchase decision. Each of these products does a very good job. Nik Software’s Dynamic Skin Softener (inside Color Efex Pro).Here are the three skin-softening plugins on my test list:

Imagenomic portraiture for lightroom update#

Since the technology behind these plugins has changed from some of the vendors, I thought it was time to update the comparison. I originally posted this comparison on December 2, 2013, after taking advantage of some Black Friday sales. Looking for the best Photoshop plugin for automatic skin, retouching, healing and smoothing? Like many people, I own more than one skin-softening plugin. Naturally, I wondered which one is the best.