FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
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Hooterville
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FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
Is the program FaceFilter 2 worth installing when you install the Ultimate extras with X5? I never even heard of this program.
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Re: FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
I played with it a little and it might be useful, but YMMV. It's hardly cutting edge technology (released in 2006) but seems to do its job passably. It could come in handy if, say, you had a group photo with one person looking unhappy, or a photo of one person, for that matter. Its actions could be duplicated in PSP to a great degree, I'd imagine, but doing it in FaceFilter would probably be simpler. I doubt that I'd install it and pay for it, but since it's free ...
Why not just give it a try?
Why not just give it a try?
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Re: FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
I have to agree with Alan Palmer, in that it old (I went and looked it up as well). I wouldn't buy it, but it came free, so I tried it. It didn't really impress me!
I not saying it won't do it job!
I would Corel had this kind of features built into PSP!
But give it a try and see if you like it!
What do you got to lose!
I not saying it won't do it job!
I would Corel had this kind of features built into PSP!
But give it a try and see if you like it!
What do you got to lose!
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Re: FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
FaceFilter 2? Is this for portrait filter? Can it crop someone way from the photo? Or simply adding bokeh effect in photo filter feature?
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Re: FaceFilter Studio 2 - Any Good
FaceFilter 2, which came with X5 Ultimate, is very old. Reallusion did a major upgrade to version 3, the current FF version, which is included with X6 Ultimate.
FF2 really couldn't do that much; FF3 has a lot more features. The problem with FF and PortraitProfessional (basically the "Cadillac" of this type of software) is that they are very specialized. They are designed specifically for improving color portraits -- specifically faces. If you do a lot of those, you'll want one of those. Otherwise, they won't help much.
I do genealogy as a hobby, including a lot of photo retouching. Yearbook photos are all black-and-white, so FF isn't useful. Even with things like color wedding photos, more than 95 percent of the photo is clothing, background, etc. So FF isn't useful there either. Even on color photos that are fairly well "close-ups", they're generally older photos (pre-1990) with "softer" focus, and programs like FF wouldn't help much.
FF2 really couldn't do that much; FF3 has a lot more features. The problem with FF and PortraitProfessional (basically the "Cadillac" of this type of software) is that they are very specialized. They are designed specifically for improving color portraits -- specifically faces. If you do a lot of those, you'll want one of those. Otherwise, they won't help much.
I do genealogy as a hobby, including a lot of photo retouching. Yearbook photos are all black-and-white, so FF isn't useful. Even with things like color wedding photos, more than 95 percent of the photo is clothing, background, etc. So FF isn't useful there either. Even on color photos that are fairly well "close-ups", they're generally older photos (pre-1990) with "softer" focus, and programs like FF wouldn't help much.