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Done! Because the frivolity of the project allowed me to embrace
the extreme retouching capabilities, it was awesome and guilt-
free. Conversely, if you can be trusted to use it judiciously, all
power to you, go for it. Use it to correct posture, to improve
symmetry, or to save an otherwise great shot by adjusting a flaw
in the subject’s pose. PortraitPro Body may eliminate the need to
hire a professional retoucher for small corrections like these.
Somehow, there’s more of an ethical issue for me with body
contour than with skin smoothing. Do ethics have a place in soft-
ware reviews? My perspective on full-body retouching is that the
artists who have a “need” to do it—and will take the time to
do it well—already know how to do it in Photoshop, and don’t
really need a dedicated piece of software to guide them along;
they’ll move bit-by-bit making intelligent, anatomy-based deci-
sions. I worry that people who are likely to use PortraitPro Body
may be more apt to go overboard with thinning and reshaping.
This is my opinion, and my lack of trust in human nature, more
than an issue with the product, which is quite good. nLeft: In only a few minutes, I dramatically slimmed
this plus-sized model (probably more than I would’ve
adjusted for someone I actually knew).
Above: PortraitPro Body interface, as it leads you
through marking up the joints of your subject.“Use it to correct posture,
to improve symmetry, or to
save an otherwise great shot
by adjusting a flaw in the
subject’s pose. PortraitPro Body
may eliminate the need to
hire a professional retoucher
for small corrections like these.”