Skylum Aperty Review and this just blew my mind!
Skylum Aperty review, yet another portrait editing tool?
I genuinely didn’t want to do a Skylum Aperty review as I just didn’t see the point of this new software, Luminar Neo already has some good Portrait editing tools and in all honesty I just thought this was a bit of a money grab from Skylum.
That genuinely was my thoughts on it and why I haven’t shared an Aperty review until now… That all changed when I went on a zoom chat with the Skylum team and Julia Trotti and they explained how it all worked, it’s massive advantages and use cases of course, suddenly, I was very interested in a product I had been ignoring for weeks.
So, yes, in short it is another portrait editing tool with an awful lot of very powerful AI functionality of course but do we really need another portrait editing tool? That was my thought process watching the demo but I kept thinking this does look very good… Then again they always look good in pre rehersed demos, so I still wasn’t sold on it.
That all changed for me when I finally started to play with Skylums Aperty Portrait editing software and I had a chance to use my own photographs on it and see how it could work for me and it then suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks… this is going to save me hours every week.
Not only was I now converted but I was seriously looking forward to using this on my next editing session and I found myself thinking Skylum take my money now please 🙂
You can see my Skylum Aperty Beta Review below where I walk you through all the features of Aperty, how to use it and the results you can achieve in no time at all.
I will update my Aperty review soon but until then have a look at the Beta version below.
Aperty Price
Speaking of money let’s talk about how much this is going to cost you and there are two options here…
Subscription Plans… at the time of doing this Aperty review it’s going to cost you $199.- a year or $19.99 a month if you prefer to pay by month.
Special offer
Once off payment… You can also buy Aperty outright for $399.- and it’s your then to own, which includes one year of free updates… get the offer here.
You also have the option to get yearly auto updates for $99.- per year, so as the software updates you will always have the latest new features.
So as you can see it’s not cheap but considering the time it will save you as a working professional that is surely a massive advantage then. Now, you might say oh but I outsource my editing, this could very well end that then, giving you far great control of the final results you will be delivering.
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Aperty use cases
If you are a portrait photographer, wedding photographer, headshot photographer or a fashion photographer then you need Aperty it’s as simple as that and forget about the cost factor as this is going to make your working time far more productive.
Aperty is going to save you from drowning under that ever growing editing mountain as you can crazily edit skin, remove skin blemishes in seconds and yes, I know other software does this also but Aperty is the first one that dropped my jaw when I saw the results from this tool, yes, it’s that good.
Wait till you hear the best feature of Aperty below, it’s mind blowing 🙂
But first let, me say that for skin smoothening and blemish removal alone Aperty is worth the investment.
I will be showing you how well it works later on in my full working video but you can also see it for yourself over on the Skylum Aperty page here where they kind of demo it for you.
The really crazy part about Aperty though is how precise it is, it really is frighteningly good.
It’s not perfect though but it’s pretty close to it and please do remember the final version is a good bit faster and smoother than the Beta version in the video above.
I can see Aperty just getting better and better because we all know what Skylum can do just look at Luminar Neo.
What makes Aperty Special?
In Aperty you can of course do all your basic editing tasks like exposure, contrast, saturation, vibrancy, blacks, whites, shadows, highlight, curves, noise reduction, sharpening etc…
Then you also have your retouching controls where you can remove skin blemishes, smooth skin, remove dark circles under eyes and crazily you can also adjust make-up with Blush, contour, highlights and have extensive control over each item.
Then you can adjust shapes like Body shape, slim faces, adjust eyes, nose and the mouth too as well. As I am guessing you are by now seeing how thouroughly ecxtensive this software is… This is not just a portrait editing plugin this is the portrait editing platform now.
I go into alot more detail about these features in my Beta copy review above.
Now, the absolutely crazy part here is we haven’t gotten to the best part of Aperty yet… The best part of Aperty for me is that you can batch edit an entire shoot with the same settings including makep, skin smoothening and blemish removal and all the other settings, you can do this in seconds, now it will take sometime to apply the edits but that’s all automated so you can do something else while your computer does that. Cool right, just think of the time savings.
So, if you shoot a wedding let’s say or a fashion shoot and you have hundreds or thousands of shots to edit you can now edit one shot and then batch edit the rest from there and Aperty will select the face in each photograph and apply the settings you used in the first one.
What’s even crazier is soon you will be able to edit multiple faces differently and the batch edit facility will automatically apply the correct edit to the correct face, I am told… Yes, you read that right and no I am not kidding.
There is a part of me that nearly cried when I heard that, just think of the hours of editing that will be saved on every shoot now. This is going to be worth a fortune for anyone that shoots portraits of any kind.
How and why Aperty is able to do this I really don’t care but the fact that it can is just fantastic.
Aperty Privacy assured.
VIP I should also mention here that Skylum will not be using your photographs for machine learning or using the images anywhere else, cough cough are you listening Adobe….
So, from a privacy stand point that’s amazing and you can rest assured that any NDA’s or client privacy will not be an issue here.
Aperty Future and upgrades
Skylum have commited to updating Aperty and they seem set to make this the default portrait editing tool for all portrait photographers and I can see that happening, as this application improves and continues to evolve, the future is bright and the future is Aperty.
Aperty review conclusion
For me now Aperty has to be by far and away the best portrait editing software out there right now, it’s fast smooth advanced and with a ton of upgrades coming soon this software is going to be at the cutting edge of portrait editing soon.
As you may have already figured out I am very excited to share more news on this and hey you should be too as this is going to be your new portrait editing software of that I am fairly sure.
Now the one slight thing you have to remember here is you might need to tweek settings from shot to shot if the light is very different in the photographs of course when you are batch editing but if you are shooting in studio it’s going to make your job a lot easier.
So, yes I am sold and I do mean completely sold, the only part that annoys me is where was this software for the last 10 years 🙂
I will obviously have an updated full Aperty Review here very soon (I am currently working on it), I promise to try and supress my excitement in the updated video though 🙂
See you out there,
Kieran.
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Skylum Aperty Review : the best portrait editing software?
I didn't want to do this Skylum Aperty review at first but after seeing this portrait editing software in action, it kind of blew me away and it gets better...
4.8
Pros
- Huge time saver for portrait editing.
- AI automation makes adjustments super quick.
- Auto skin dectecting .
- Blemish removal.
- Skin smoothening.
Cons
- It's not cheap but it's still worth it for the time it will save.
- Some features still missing.