FILE AND ‘+’
Open images, or
whole folders of
them, from here.LOOKS BUTTON
Open the Looks
palette with this
handy button.THE LOOKS
Looks open down
here, and can be
switched between
with this menu.5
Portrait enhancer
There’s a lot going on in the Portrait Enhancer, if you use the
dropdown arrow to reveal all its tools. Face Light will brighten the
face, but is best used for the removal of shadows or you risk losing
the natural skintone of your model. Red Eye Removal does what it
suggests, while Eye Whitening and Dark Circles Removal enhance
the eyes. The Eye Enhancer itself attempts to brighten eyes.
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More portrait enhancements
Moving down the Portrait Enhancer palette, we get to Slim
Face and Enlarge Eyes, which are self-explanatory but should be
used with caution, especially the latter. Slim Face does a good job
of only affecting the face, but can stray into caricature territory.
Enlarge Eyes is again clever, but enlarging any part of an image
risks softness and artefacts as the app extrapolates new data.
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Eyebrow Improve darkens and increases contrast above the
eyes, useful if you’ve not worked with a makeup artist. Lip
Saturation and Redness are useful if your model is wearing red
lipstick, and while Lip Darkening can work on a natural face it’s
best left alone. Likewise Teeth Whitening, which can provide a
nuclear white flash if your model is exposing their choppers.
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Split view
Along with the Eye icon that reverts the image back to its
original state while you hold it down, there is also a split view that
shows you before and after images of your edits, with a movable
terminator between the two. There is, unfortunately, no way to
make the terminator horizontal, but it’s a really useful way to
gauge how far your edits have taken you from the original image.28 |^ |^ April 2020