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ArcSoft releases Perfect365 photo makeover app

Nov 2, 2011 at 13:00:09 GMT

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ArcSoft has released a 'Photo Makeover' application called Perfect365, that allows users to manipulate their pictures and portraits with a single button click. It offers cleanup options such as blemish removal and skin softening, alongside makeover features such as 'smile enhance' and 'cheek lift'. There's also built-in support for sharing via social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Perfect365 is available immediately as a free download for PC users, with iPhone/iPad, Mac and Facebook versions to follow.

Press Release:

Perfect365 From ArcSoft Gives Everyone The Power To Do Their Own Simple, One-Touch Photo Makeovers For Free

Perfect365 delivers 15 years of imaging experience in the first one-touch facial makeover app for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Facebook, and the Web

Fremont, California – November 2, 2011. ArcSoft, Inc., the industry leading software provider of imaging technologies and applications, announced today Perfect365, a free photo makeover software application that lets users adjust up to 21 individual facial features on their pictures and portraits with a single click of a button. Perfect365 is immediately available as a free download for Windows PC at www.perfect365.com. The iPad and iPhone versions are to be available in mid-November, and the Facebook and Mac versions will be available before the end of the year.

“ArcSoft has used its 15 years of imaging expertise and understanding of the human face to give users a powerful tool to touch up their portraits just like a professional touchup artist – but with a simple click of a button,” said Michael Deng, ArcSoft's Founder and CEO. “People aren’t always at their best when someone takes a snapshot. We are giving consumers the ability to remove a blemish, or those dark circles under the eyes without any hassle, for free, and without the need for any special technical expertise. We want them to feel good about sharing their photos every day.”

Perfect365’s patented imaging and facial recognition technology offers one touch cleanup with accurate, natural results. Style makeup templates are included for varying looks with the ability to fine-tune according to the user’s unique style. The technology also allows for amazingly organic feature enhancements.

Perfect365 key features include:

One-Touch Touchup and Makeup –One-touch preset cleanup and style templates
Instant Facial Recognition – ArcSoft’s algorithm allows accurate facial mapping instantly
Multiple Face Recognition – Up to 20 faces are automatically detected (PC Only)
Cleanup Features – Clear blemishes and under-eye circles, remove shine, soften skin, and whiten teeth
Makeup Features – Face, lips, eyes, contact lenses adjustment for color and intensity
Enhancement Features – Smile enhance, bridge and nose (T-Zone), cheek lift
Unlimited Creativity – Settings are adjustable allowing for unlimited looks and styles
Updated Style Templates – New styles offered regularly for free download
Built In Sharing – Share directly to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr
Before and After Comparison – Easily review before and after effects
Customize Key Points – Adjust key points for tilted and off-center profiles
Saved Looks – Save favorite looks for sharing and comparison
Print Posters and Photos – Easily order high quality prints and posters

Perfect365 for Windows is free and immediately available at www.perfect365.com. An enhanced Windows version of Perfect365 that allows users to save and print their high-resolution pictures is available for $29.99 from www.perfect365.com and www.arcsoft.com. The iPhone and iPad versions will be available at the Apple’s App Store and iTune store in mid-November, and the Facebook and Mac versions will be made available later this year.

Important Links
ArcSoft Website: www.arcsoft.com/
Perfect365 Website: www.perfect365.com
Perfect365 Twitter: www.twitter.com/perfect_365
ArcSoft Twitter: www.twitter.com/ArcSoft_Inc
Perfect365 Facebook: www.facebook.com/Perfect365
ArcSoft Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArcSoftInc

About ArcSoft

ArcSoft, Inc. is an industry leading software developer of multimedia technologies and applications across desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. Working closely with major OEM manufacturers, ArcSoft offers a full line of imaging and video solutions that enhance the features, performance, and user experience of mobile phones, digital cameras, tablets, personal computers, and consumer electronics devices. For further details, visit www.arcsoft.com.

Comments

Total comments: 24

This program is surprisingly very good. I use Portrait Prof so I'm comparing it with the best (in this genre). The free version limits save file size to 600 pixels, the paid version saves same res as original. You have to tweak the adjustments, unless face is perfectly orthogonal, nevertheless the autofit is surprisingly good. For $30 this is an incredible deal even if you disable all except blemish removal.

I intensely dislike the oversoftened "plastic" skin look -pores belong on skin, otherwise it's something other than "skin". You can avoid that with this software just as with Portrait Professional (esp. with PProf vs Noise reduction software).

Search for discount codes -I found one (Halloween) which brought my cost down to $20.99. Perfect365 is a very worthwhile purchase in my opinion.

Dan

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Terrible stuff. Totally freaks me out. Makes your best shots look like robotic faces from a Twilight Zone episode. I can't fathom why anyone would want their model, wife or neighbor to look like this.

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My guess is that you are not using it right.

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Adam2,

What features are better in Portrait Pro? I took a quick look and they seemed to be the same for $10 more money.

Thanks!

Jim

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Portrait Professional is a much better value and offers better features. While I applaud arcsoft for a "giveaway" it's a crippled product and a gimmick to attract sales. Those who know would choose Portrait Pro.

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You can use screenhunter to capture larger images. Program is one I will probably buy.

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I think some of the posters here must be beautiful people or they have simply forgotten what it was like to be a pimple faced teenager...you won't find a picture of yours truly from age 13 to 20...no creative lighting can compensate for that.
Thank goodness for photo editing software...when you see a vibrant young person with acne...its not the acne that jumps out, but in a photo it does...removing it with software actually produces a result that is truer to what you remember.

....so what if its not technically accurate....thank goodness for community college Photoshop courses !

Oh yeah...I've used ArcSoft stuff....works pretty good IMHO.

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Anyone who shoots 1,000s of high school yearbook "mug shots" portraits of legions of armed forces recruits, will find this handy. It amounts to dermatological "noise reduction."

Hard to fathom, though, how it can handlefeatures or eyeglasses blown out because of flash or glare.

Might this stuff also enable people to "outsmart" facial recognition software used to track passport or other ID photos? That is probably easy enough, anyway.

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I have Arcsoft panorama maker..works great..came with my Panasonic fz35 and fx150. I will wait and buy the ipad version in november..This is a fun application

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The playing field just changed again...

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Actually works. Limited to 600X600 save size for free. Took a photo with eyes that were not the natural color, and was able to retrieve the right color. The intensity for some changes is a bit much, but a great program if doing high school yearbooks. It's fun to play with.
Jim S

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Why is it that we simply can not accept ourselves the way we are and look?

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'Cause there's no money in it, except once every October when ugly masks come in handy.

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Good point. However, simple blemish removal is like very good makeup and lighting. Does not everyone choose their clothes carefully for a portrait shot, or an interview?

As for actually changing a permanent part of our looks such as the shape of a face (jaw, nose, eyes, forehead etc.) that's an altogether different story and perhaps that is what you meant.

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I'd love to spend my days shooting El Capitan in twilight but sometimes you have to grind out stuff like school portrits and if a bit of cosmetic surgery helps make the sale (and it does) then I for one will continue to grab the digital knife.

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This trend of allowing photographers to shoot without any thought and control of lighting and then "fixing" it afterwards is troubling to me. As a professional my goal is to control the light to make my subject look flattering and get it right in the camera the first time.

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I guess painters felt the same when the first cameras appeared.

But in all seriousness, it's still about the actual image. You just can't fix a poorly composed, poorly lit picture with software. It's still a bad picture, maybe a more catchy one - yet still bad.
But a good picture with some careful retouching applied can be a bit better than it initially was.

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It is not a trend, it's a tradition. Painters had the possibility to create a more flattering image with their tools, not just with lighting and posing. Neither it is a tool that enables shooting without a thought. You can minimize the apearance of the skin pores if you light the face from the front, but the software allows the same even with a side-lit portrait. The tool allows for more creative possibilities.

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Anyone who restores or digitalizes old photos depends on photo software a LOT. It really is important to be able to improve on old, bad photos, since you can't time-travel back 20+ years and shoot the pictures again. Furthermore, light control is ellusive anywhere but in a studio or a situation where one's subjects are willing to pose. Closed eyes, grimmaces, cyniical middle fingers, "rabbit ears," and "blown" eyeglasses all have to be fixed. I pitty the people who do graduations or weddings, with half the group dressed in black, the other half in white, there is bright light and shadow, the only choice is between backlighting and people squinting into the sun, and the face exposures come out wrong for all.

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I saw this a lot in my career in color pre-press. In the beginning, when everything was film, it was very hard to manipulate images...everything had to be perfect in-camera, or at least as perfect as you can get. The old myth of Playboy "airbrushing" their photos wasn't really true. Back then, it was incredibly hard to airbrush anything without it looking completely fake. Yes, blemishes here and there were removed, but it was attempted to cover that up or shoot around anything major. Then digital manipulation started coming around in pre-press with Linotype-Hell and Sytex and Quantel Paintbox systems. Still, these were manned by pros in the industry that were still getting great photos to work with. But little by little, the "we'll fix it later" crept in and when Photoshop hit in a big way, it was all over. Now we have pictures in magazines with skin so overworked it doesn't even look human made by people that go "hey, I took a Photoshop course at the community college!". But I digress

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I agree 100%. If you have 10,000 photographs taken, 2 are taken by photographers while 9,998 are taken by photoshop.

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Well I would pay for it if it would have hair style generator along with all these features!

Seriously... never heard of this software before, I will be sure to check it out! :-)

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ArcSoft products are bundled with many Kodak cameras.

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I love all the so called photographers decrying photoshop as evil... no, we must strive to make our photos best as possible with no gimmicky software!! And yet, these same photographers adore pro's like Ansel Adams who was his generations equivalent of a photoshopper because he routinely removed items from his photos and all the other film tricks to alter the image to what he wanted it to be.

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