ON1 Portrait AI

● $59.99/£60.10 ● www.on1.com

ON1 Portrait AI is a standalone/plug-in version of the portrait enhancement tools in ON1 Photo RAW 2023. If you have that software, you don’t need this. If, on the other hand, you use Lightroom or some other image editor, ON1 Portrait AI 2023 can work alongside it to provide ON1’s portrait enhancement tools.

You can launch Portrait AI 2023 as a standalone editor and then open images for enhancement within it, or you can launch it as a plug-in from Lightroom, for example. It works in just the same way in both cases.

Portrait AI will identify any faces in photos and apply enhancements automatically, though you can override these with presets from the left sidebar or manual adjustments of your own.

The adjustments available are what we’ve come to expect from portrait enhancement tools and include face lightening, mouth and eye enhancement, plus some pretty sophisticatedlooking skin enhancement via frequency separation tools that can be left alone or examined and adjusted individually.

Frequency separation will be familiar to anyone who has used Affinity Photo. It sounds technical, but it’s simply a way of smoothing out details at different sizes. Very often, you won’t need to delve too deep and you can use the retouching tools built into the software for individual blemishes.

ON1 Portrait AI 2023 is effective, but Lightroom users may decide they can get the same results using their software’s latest AI masking and the local adjustment tools.

At the time of writing, ON1 Portrait AI 2023 was on offer which is reflected in the price quoted above. This of course may change in coming weeks.