![]() FaceFilter is for the folks who don't mind spending a bit of time learning the software, who want to add a bit of glamour to their portraits, but who just don't want or need to go more full tilt using P/Shop of The GIMP etc. At the other end of the spectrum, you're not going to see a crowd of experienced P/Shop or GIMP users working with FaceFilter either. the digital nose job, and FaceFilter offers that too.Īs far as the app itself, if all you're after is a slighter, just overall enhancing of a facial image, the Android apps may be the easiest way to get decent results, at least most of the time, & particularly with shots that are less staged. The 4th type of facial touch-up is to change the physical characteristics of the face, e.g. And FaceFilter can make it loads easier to do stuff like paint eyebrows. And that's one of the types of facial touch-up FaceFilter gives you - there are several ways to paint on your image. Where you lose that texture is with healing tools &/or painting - anything that alters groups of pixels other than just changing their tint. Preserving that original texture is not always considered important. Basically you separate texture & color, then edit one or both before merging them back together - the advantage is that you can still have skin texture in your edited photo. it gone from being very popular to a standard part of editing routines. Of the 2 methods that FaceFilter doesn't specialize in, the somewhat blurry dream look, is maybe the easiest, & least likely to offend - you're not changing any actual features, but presenting them in a softened, more forgiving way. That out of the way, there are 4 types of facial touch-up - FaceFilter gives you 2 of them, along with a collection of more general image edit tools like White Balance. giving someone a digital nose job - "What! You think it's Ugly?" As far as us everyday sort of people, while no one minds you removing a zit, you can get in serious trouble getting carried away, e.g. Political correctness comes in with debates & discussions about fostering unrealistic standards & poor self image. With the power of all the tools at their disposal, many photographers set their own limits on how far they were willing to go, & that's the ethics part. That *might* be due to a combination of ethics & political correctness. Īnother *maybe* trend I spotted using Google is that there's less pro level discussion on facial touch-up, beautification, glamour shots etc. And by necessity they're pretty much all super easy to use - you've got a small screen, limited processing horsepower, & most likely are limited to touch. Typing in face touch-up in the search box at the Play Store supports that theory, with loads of apps available showing 4-5 stars. One reason I didn't see much of anything for 2015 or 2016 could be the popularity of using the camera in your cell phone - it's easier to edit or touch-up those photos right then & there, since you're already previewing the shot. I didn't see a lot of recent news or reviews for Reallusion's FaceFilter - I got it as part of PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate back in November of 2012, & most of the stuff I found with Google dates to around that time. If the "costs" become so high, it will stop even looking like it is. This, after all, is supposed to be "free" software. ![]() ![]() Or simply monitor - but not bother to download as soon as I read other complaints about "hoops" and "hassles". GOTD, if you let programme developers dictate to you like this, you are going to lose loyal "readers".Īny more like we've had in the past two weeks, and I'll probably be ready to jump ship. It only drives people away - particularly when their are other, more approachable, services offering free software. Because that wasn't the deal before, and there is no reason it should be now. If this is a trend, I hope it will soon be stopped by GOTD. I would have given up.Īnd frankly, I don't know what's happening to GOTD nowadays, with the sponsors seemingly demanding and expecting SO MUCH (effort, time, invasion of privacy, etc.) in exchange for trying out their often "hobbled" software. As a photographer, I decided to get this programme really for one reason and one reason only - to manipulate my photo of a friend (with her permission of course) for the cover of a book.īut frankly, although I eventually successfully installed it, it was such a hassle, with SO MANY hoops to jump through (and things going wrong, too) if there had been one more hoop. ![]()
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