That is a great question. If I remember correctly, in the beta version, there was a panel for body skin retouching. Now that Aperty is released, that function is gone. Hopefully, body skin retouching will be added in a future update.

Thanks for your comment! I've been doing this too for over 30 years, including taping medium format negatives to these stupid paper cutouts to get the correct crop from my lab. :( If it is just for a few images, I agree with you, too much added work. When shooting over 50 headshots for a local business, this will save me time and ensure better consistency throughout the entire project. Additionally, I can easily re-run the batch and provide the company with square images suitable for Slack or other programs that require square formats, as an added benefit of hiring me.. I think Retouch4Me Crop is going to be a real benefit for my studio.

@@TomCheswick I too have had similar jobs working many headshots one by one. Batch jobs only work if the subjects are in the exact same spot. So I must agree that having an app that looks at each shot and employs the same cropping strategy would be useful. Though I don't see any jobs in my future that would benefit from it.

Hi Victor! For accurate skin colors, I use the WhiBal White Balance cards or the Expodisc. Since both the Expodisc and WhiBal card corrects color for the entire photo, the skintones should look great too. I will have to make a video about the Expodisc, but here are two video showing how to use the WhiBal card. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXqbqKVreq-hnbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXLKkICGjNB_d9k

Hi Victor! Thank you for your request! Here is one that should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5rTdpqea6Z0opI If not, let me know what I missed.

Let me know if you are still having a problem. This should work with the new 2025 and updated 2024.5 versions.

I'm sorry about that! Here was the info that Skylum emailed me: » Aperty - Exclusive Lifetime Offer Promo Duration: November 15 - December 3 Lifetime License: Only $399 This exclusive Black Friday offer is a limited-time opportunity for your audience to invest in Aperty at a one-time price! Affiliate Link: skylum.evyy.net/c/3212871/2166156/3255

I'm sorry about that! Here was the info that Skylum emailed me: » Aperty - Exclusive Lifetime Offer Promo Duration: November 15 - December 3 Lifetime License: Only $399 This exclusive Black Friday offer is a limited-time opportunity for your audience to invest in Aperty at a one-time price! Affiliate Link: skylum.evyy.net/c/3212871/2166156/3255

Thanks for sharing!

Glad you like it!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the comment! It lets me know that I wasn't very clear when I said it was the only retouching program I know of that handles RAW files and gives you all of the camera profiles too. You are correct that programs like PhotoShop, Lightroom, Luminar Neo, Capture One, DXO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo handle RAW files, but I wasn't considering them as dedicated retouching programs. I was comparing Aperty RAW capabilities to other retouching programs like Retouch4me Arams, Evoto, and Portrait Pro. Sorry about the misunderstanding. I apologize if it seemed like I was speaking to you in a condescending way; that was not my intention. It can be challenging for me to cater to both beginner photographers and those with more experience who watch my videos. Therefore, I try to include fundamental concepts as well.

@@TomCheswick OK. If you like the app's interface, Luminar Neo might be more appealing for mainstream landscape and portrait photographers not willing to use PhotoShop.

I have no inside knowledge, but I am guessing that body blemish was not ready in time for the official release and will be added back soon. My most desired features would be to be able to swap backgrounds and to be able to add textures. What features do you want added?

@TomCheswick truthfully, I can do all these things in Neo. I'm it's current start out doesn't offer anything over neo.

That is good to hear that Neo is fulfilling your needs! I love Neo, but there is no way I can retouch acne skin like I show in this video and get results like this. Aperty's skin retouching is amazing!

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@@TomCheswick facial hair removal is definitely missing in "portait" app

Glad it was helpful! I will work on the lighting video so be sure to subscribe so that you are notified when the video is ready. It may turn out to be a series of lighting tutorials.

I understand your complaint about subscriptions. It looks like there are 3 paths that software companies are headed, subscriptions, pay per use and lifetime ownership. Even with the lifetime ownership, it is usually for that version and the software company is hoping that you will upgrade to the next version in the next year or two. I try to focus on finding software that meet my photographic needs and then see if it also fits within my budget. Let me know if you have found any lifetime ownership of photography software that include free version upgrades. Davinci Resolve offers this, but that is for video editing.

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@@삼개-p1s Yes they did!

I hope they are listening to us! Fingers crossed!

Awesome!

The 2024.5 Content-Aware Crop does have limitations and probably why it is being updated with AI in ON1 2025.

This is 2024.5 content-aware crop. The new AI feature of 2025 ON1 should be much better. I will test it out on this image when 2025 ON1 Photo Raw is available.

Great question, because it made me realize I did not explain this well enough. When a camera saves a photo as a JPEG, it processes the image and applies several settings, including color tone, contrast, sharpness and saturation. You should be able to choose this ahead of capture by selecting a Picture Style in your camera menu. A Picture Style is basically a camera profile, but it is baked into the JPEG and can't be changed afterwards. That is why when you work with JPGs in Develop > Tone & Color, the Camera Profile and ON1 Standard are greyed-out. The Picture Style is already processed into the file and can not be changed. Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Thanks for sharing, I appreciate your insight! I agree about NEO, it is an excellent all around program, but Aperty is great if you specialize in portraiture. I have used Portrait Pro Studio in the past and liked the results. Unfortunately, I always had to do my main editing in another program and then send it to Portrait Pro for retouching. I really appreciate being able to do everything within one program by using Aperty. Evoto is a very good program too, I like the new tethering capabilities and distractions removal feature. Some don't like that it is cloud based or their credits and subscriptions plans, but those are not big negatives for me. I think the Evoto team is creating a fantastic tool for photographers. Bottom line > There are numerous excellent tools available for photographers, and I intend to showcase them to this community, allowing everyone to determine the most suitable options for their needs. It is crucial to find the right tools for your workflow.

Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it Jim!

Thanks for the questions! I don't erase the hair on the original layer because I know that when I cut the girl out to replace the background, I will lose some of the fine stray hairs, and that is OK because I would just have to remove them later as I find stray hairs distracting. A new Stamped Layer is similar to Flatten but you have the added advantage of still being able to access the other layers. If you know that you won't need the other layers,then Flatten is a great choice.

@@TomCheswick Hey Tom thanks for the speedy reply. I'm getting me feet wet with ON1 and it is a little bit like trying to find the salt an pepper in an AirBNB

Thank you, I am glad that it worked for you!

I find that lowering the Micro Sharpening helps m to avoid the strong effect. Most of the time I have it set to 0.

@@TomCheswick thanks for the advice, I will try next time

Thanks for the feedback about the background music.

Good question!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome Marleen!

Thank you!

Many thanks Jim!

Sorry to hear that, what happened?

You're welcome @SP-do5sm!

I'm sorry that the "Paint in" is not working for you. Be sure to contact ON1's support team at on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

Thanks for the suggestion!

Thank you! 😊

Thanks for watching!

You are welcome!

Glad you love the tip!

Thank you Mark! Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for subscribing! I am not aware of a way to selectively use Tack Sharp AI without using a 2nd layer of the image. Hopefully someone will chime in if they know of a way. If you want to keep to just the original layer, you could try adding an Effects filter like Dynamic Contrast and mask that in. That does a very good job with sharpening.

Glad it was helpful! Great question! Either way will work. I merged the layers because I know I wasn't going to re-edit either layer and was only going to work on the newly merged layer. This practice dates back to my early days with photoshop and merging layers to save disk space. Old habits!

I just noticed that too when opening some folders that I had images that I had worked on. It seems to be a problem when Browse module. When I open the images in Develop, I can quickly scroll through the images again. I went to Preferences > System and Empty Browse Cache and then it reloaded the folder and it is fast again.

Hi Brenda! Glad it was helpful!

Thank you Jim!