As in , version 10 lets you create minimal to sweeping changes to a face to make it more appealing. Once you upload an image, you mark five spots on it--the outside corners of the eyes, the tip of the nose, and the corners of the mouth. Then you adjust the points on the image to correspond to the features of the face, and click. In a few seconds, Portrait Professional 10 changes the features of the face according to its predetermined algorithms that are meant to correspond with beauty, and voila--brand-new face.
Once Portrait Professional has done its thing, you're free to make your own changes using sliders at the right side of the screen, to increase or decrease each effect. This gives the user control over the final look while keeping the program simple to use.
New in Portrait Professional version 10 is the option to label a subject as a child, giving you a smaller range of controls to correct and beautify the faces of children.
Portrait Professional uses algorithms to determine what is needed to sculpt a face to make it more beautiful, but the algorithms it uses generally apply to adult faces, where thinner noses, higher foreheads, and more sculpted jaws and cheekbones are preferred. When these changes are applied to children, the results are strange.
In the new version, when you indicate that you are working on a child, Portrait Professional eliminates the sculpting tools that won't "work" for them. Instead of being able to sculpt their forehead, nose, neck, and jaw, you can only make changes to their eyes and mouth. Of course, if you want to use all of the controls on your younger subjects, you can--just don't check the box that indicates that it's a child and you're free to elongate their neck and thin their nose all you want.