Skylum, a Ukrainian developer of AI-based photo editors, has introduced Aperty, an innovative tool for face retouching. It allows you to achieve professional results in portrait processing in a few minutes: from evening out skin tone and texture, removing defects, to adding makeup elements.
Retouching challenges
Created in collaboration with Australian portrait photographer Julia Trotti, Aperty is designed for professional photographers looking to optimize workflows and achieve natural-looking image processing.
According to Skylum, the company has recently paid attention to the challenges faced by professional and commercial photographers. One of them is spending many hours retouching photos. The team decided to develop a tool that would automate their routine work and free up time for new projects.
“We understand that time is precious for a photographer. Especially for professionals who run and develop their own business. Since we believe that retouching should be fast, easy, and provide high-quality results every time, we have created a new technological product that covers the existing pains of professional photographers,” says Ivan Kutanin, CEO of Skylum.
Technology in Aperty
By combining advanced artificial intelligence technology with state-of-the-art functionality, Aperty sets a new standard for next-generation portrait retouching tools.
The technologies behind the program:
- Face grid. Aperty processes up to 4000 points on the face (more than 20 times more than other photo editors on the market). This ensures high accuracy of each edit, taking into account the depth and size of the image.
- Face and body segmentation. Aperty detects up to 30 classes of face and body parts, allowing for detailed retouching and shape correction.
- Creation of synthetic data sets. Artificial intelligence models trained on such data guarantee the security of photographers’ original work and solve some common privacy and intellectual property issues.
Key features of Aperty
- Skin Smoothing: Smoothes skin texture while preserving natural tones and details, such as pores.
- Remove blemishes: Removes blemishes without damaging the skin’s texture, and removes or repairs freckles.
- Corrects skin tone on the face and body: provides a balanced combination of skin tones by adjusting red and green tones with the slider. It also removes facial redness and green tones caused by poor lighting or shadows.
- Studio Light: A dynamic tool that allows you to customize artificial light sources and use light textures in post-processing. With the ability to create up to 5 light sources, users can place them anywhere in the image to simulate the perfect scene.
- Presets/LUTs: Allows for quick editing and color correction of images using predefined settings.
- Makeup: allows you to add blush, contour, and highlights in post-processing, as well as fine-tune the tone, amount, and blending of makeup for a natural look.
- Batch processing: you can edit a photo in a unique author’s style and automatically apply the changes to the rest of the photos in the series.
Availability and recognition
Aperty is already available on desktop devices. For more information about the AI app for quick photo retouching and editing, please follow the link: https://aperty.ai.
Skylum is a leading innovator in photo editing software and the company with over 16 years of experience behind the award-winning Luminar Neo program. This photo editor has won TIPA 2022, TIPA 2023, and TIPA 2024 awards in the Best Imaging Software for Photography Enthusiasts category.
