Are you mesmerized by portrait pictures? These days photo enthusiasts can smoothly start a photography career since the market offers plenty of affordable and comprehensive gear for beginner photographers.

But what about post-production? Doesn’t photo retouching require thick manuals and expensive Adobe programs? Not necessarily. Although Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom are leaders in the industry, you will do perfectly fine without them.

In this review, we will show you four automatic portrait editing software which will do all the heavy lifting for you. Each is user-friendly and doesn’t require any professional editing background. Read the descriptions and choose the editor that speaks to you the most.

1. PhotoDiva

PhotoDiva is an AI-ran portrait editor. Thanks to facial recognition, it identifies your client’s facial features in a picture automatically. Then, with the help of the Auto Retouch presets, the program allows you to apply instant modifications: skin smoothening, teeth whitening, removal of any redness, slight tanning, and more. Apart from many presets and slider-based effects, in PhotoDiva, you will enjoy convenient manual tools:

• Easy-to-use blemish remover, eye color changer, hair editor, red-eye effect eraser

• Digital makeup: lipsticks, blusher, bronzer, highlighter, eyeshadows

• Handy face sculpting tools to edit jawline, nose, lips, eyes

• Body reshaping features for your model’s waist, legs, muscles, and curves

• Decent package of essential tools for cropping, rotating, color correcting pictures

• Efficient background eraser with stock backdrop images

• Library of beautiful filters for producing put-together portraits

PhotoDiva is a free portrait editor compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7. However, some more advanced features are available only with a paid subscription.

2. PortraitPro

Next up is PortraitPro. Like the previous one, this program runs on an artificial intelligence engine that, apart from facial characteristics, detects the model’s gender and age.

In the latest update, you will find such exclusive features as a shoulder and neck slimming tool, a handy body editor, a sophisticated facial sculptor, realistic digital makeup, and many presets for achieving the desired effect in a single click.

The powerful hair styling toolkit in PortraitPro will assist you with editing the model’s hairline, trying a new hair color, and adding some volume. Within this application, you also get:

• Powerful background editor

• Exclusive lighting control capabilities

• Extensive collection of filters

• Convenient integration with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

• Batch processing mode for editing several pictures at a time

PortraitPro is one of the best portrait editors on the market. However, many helpful features like batch processing are unavailable in the Standard subscription, so you will have to purchase a more expensive one if these features are must-haves for you.

3. AKVIS MakeUp

AKVIS MakeUp is another automatic portrait photo editor. Contrary to its name, it has no makeup features. Still, the program offers many easy-to-apply options you will enjoy while retouching your pictures.

AKVIS has two modes - Express and Advanced. The first is a generator that will retouch your entire portrait in a click: smoothen, brighten, freshen skin and apply some other uncomplicated glow-up effects.

If the model in your image doesn’t have a problem with skin or any other imperfections that need detailed editing, the default settings of the Express generator will be enough to polish your pic. In the Advanced module of AKVIS MakeUp, you will be able to:

• Balance out the model’s skin tone

• Play with facial parameters

• Remove spots, moles, pimples, acne

• Whiten the model’s teeth

• Mask the red-eye effect

• Apply delicate filters like B&W

• Process a series of pictures all at once

The developers of this software advertise it as a photo processing tool for pictures from special occasions: weddings, graduations, birthday parties, baby showers, etc.

The reason is that AKVIS MakeUp will make sure all the portraits in your photoshoot are flawless in just a couple of minutes of post-production. AKVIS MakeUp also comes as a plug-in for many famous programs in the industry: Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel PaintShop Pro, and more. However, its users may not use it for commercial purposes. 

4. FaceFilter

The final portrait editor on our Top-4 list is FaceFilter which relies on content-aware artificial intelligence. All the tools in this program are slider-based, making retouching a piece of cake for users. Besides, FaceFilter has 100+ beauty presets you can use for an instant effect. The editor will come in handy if you want to:

• Remove imperfections, hide wrinkles, mask face shine

• Edit neck and shoulders in a picture

• Apply digital makeup: mascara, blush, lipstick, contouring

• Edit the model’s facial expression

• Color correct portraits and fix white balance

• Apply beautiful filters and effects

FaceFilter will be a rescue for complete beginners in portrait editing. However, this program has no recent updates and uses outdated algorithms. Therefore, it might provide an unnatural effect if you are not careful enough.

Even today, when natural beauty is strongly encouraged, most portrait photographers use editors to freshen their pictures or give them a special effect - remove eye circles and blemishes, mask redness and extra shine, brighten eyes, or apply beautiful effects.

With the software we have reviewed, you ‌can ‌do that without trouble and achieve an outstanding result. We hope you have found the program you like and wish you a smooth post-production process.