PortraitPro

PortraitPro does one job and goes deep on it: automatic face and facial-feature detection, then AI-driven adjustment of skin, eyes, hair, lighting and makeup on a portrait in a fraction of the time manual retouching in Photoshop takes.

ClearSkin, the skin-smoothing engine, is built to preserve texture rather than blur it flat, which is the detail that usually gives AI retouching away, and the Studio Max edition adds batch processing so a wedding or event photographer can apply consistent adjustments across hundreds of shots rather than one at a time.

Anthropics Technology Limited has been running this product from Gloucester since 1998, which makes it one of the longest-running companies in this category, predating the AI-retouching trend it now competes in.

Pricing is a one-time purchase per edition: Standard at €54.95, Studio at €94.95 and Studio Max at €174.95, with a 14-day trial that watermarks output and disables saving so you can judge the results before buying.

As a UK company, PortraitPro sits under the UK's adequacy decision rather than inside the EEA itself. It is narrow by design — this is portrait retouching, not a general photo editor — and a user who also needs layout, compositing or RAW development still needs something else alongside it.

What PortraitPro does well

• Automatic face detection with deep, portrait-specific AI adjustment
• ClearSkin smoothing built to preserve texture rather than flatten it
• Batch processing in Studio Max for high-volume retouching
• One-time perpetual licence per edition, no subscription
• British company with a quarter-century track record

Where PortraitPro falls short

• Narrow: portrait retouching only, not a general editor
• United Kingdom, outside the EEA and dependent on an adequacy decision
• Three separate editions to compare before buying
• Not open source

Standout feature. AI retouching that keeps skin texture: PortraitPro is the only tool here built entirely around making a face look retouched by a person, not a filter.