Anthropics Technology released on Tuesday , the latest version of its photo-editing and enhancement software. Version 9 adds the ClearSkin technology, which can automatically remove skin defects from photos, as well as an intelligent touch-up brush and new support for profile shots.

In addition, Portrait Professional 9 now supports multi-processor machines and is available as a Photoshop plug-in.

Portrait Professional 9 requires a 1GHz or better Intel Mac with 512MB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The software is available in both a Standard edition for $100 and a Studio edition, which also works as a Photoshop or Lightroom plug-in, for $150.--