Portrait retouching software for Windows

Portrait panel: four tabs, four jobs

How to open

Menu Portrait → Portrait retouch / makeup. A dedicated panel appears on the right.

Four tabs

Beautify: smooth skin, whiten, even skin tone, remove dark circles, brighten eyes, remove blemishes, brighten skin (7)

Reshape: slim face, V-face, narrow nostrils, raise nose bridge, chin, forehead, enlarge eyes, open eye corners (8)

Makeup: 7 areas including brows, eyes and lips, plus 8 complete presets

Skin: remove blemishes, remove spots, smooth skin, even skin tone, remove shine, whiten teeth, soften nasolabial folds (7)

Three more at the top

The top strip switches between portrait / hair colour / hairstyle. Hair colour recolours hair; hairstyle swaps the style.

Every change lands on its own portrait layer. Close the panel and reopen it to keep tuning — the original is never damaged

Beautify tab: how to balance seven sliders

Suggested approach

Move only two at first: smooth 40, whiten 25. Look, then decide about the rest.

What each does

Smooth skin: heavy smoothing looks like plastic. Past 60 the skin texture is gone

Whiten: brightens without shifting hue. Up to 30 stays natural

Even skin tone: evens out red or yellow patches. Very useful with visible blotches

Remove dark circles: for tired faces. Do not overdo it or the under-eye area turns grey

Brighten eyes: lifts the whites and catchlights only. It does not enlarge the eyes

Remove blemishes: spot-type flaws. Different from smoothing, which works on the whole area

Brighten skin: lifts overall tone by one step. Unlike whiten, it keeps more of the original hue

Group photos: one face at a time

At the bottom of the panel there is a "Next face 3/5" button — the app detects every face in the photo

and lists them one by one. Click it to move to the next person; each face keeps its own independent

set of smoothing, whitening and makeup parameters. That is how you beautify a group photo person by person:

tune A, switch, tune B, switch again. When the button reads "Re-detect", click it to scan faces again

(use it if someone was missed).

Pushing all seven to 80 gives you "a face with no pores". Real photos usually need two

Portrait relight: choosing among five light positions

How to open it

Menu Portrait → Portrait relight. A relight panel appears on the right.

This is a different thing from portrait beautify: beautify changes the face and skin, relight puts a new lamp on the existing photo.

Five preset positions

Butterfly: high and frontal, with a small butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose. Slimming; ID and profile shots

Loop: about 30 degrees to the front-side. The universal choice that suits anyone

Rembrandt: 45 degrees to the side, with a triangle of light on the cheekbone. Dramatic; portrait work

Side: straight from the side, half light and half dark. Hard contours, for men and a tough look

Rim: from behind and to the side, tracing the outline. The first four add to the existing light; this one relights

Five sliders

Light direction (±180 degrees), light height (±80 degrees), intensity (%, start around 30),

softness (%, higher means softer edges) and colour temperature (−100 cool to +100 warm).

Two more groups

Light colour, 6 options: neutral, warm, cool, rose, cyan-blue and violet

Scope, 5 options: face / upper body / person / current selection / whole photo

"Upper body" and "person" need the local matting model to find the subject; without it you get a message.

"Current selection" needs a selection made beforehand, or it warns you too

Do not start by pushing intensity to maximum. Relight fills shadows; maxed out you get a flat white face — try 30 first