Download Imagenomic Portraiture for macOS

Portraiture runs as a plugin inside three hosts — Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Affinity Photo — on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 13 or newer. It hands the repetitive masking work to an AI smoothing engine that isolates skin and leaves eyes, brows and lips alone.

• Supports the native Apple Silicon plugin architecture alongside x86 64-bit systems.
• English-language interface only.
• No manual mask painting — the engine detects skin areas automatically.
• Plug-in format for Photoshop and Lightroom Classic; also loads in Affinity Photo.
• Build 4501 ships a next-generation version of the AI smoothing engine.

Because it slides straight into a host you already know, there is no separate interface to learn. The controls live inside a familiar panel, so adjustments happen without bouncing between apps.

Preview refresh on a 45 MP raw file

On an M1 MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM, opening the Portraiture panel inside Photoshop feels near-instant. The plugin window draws in under a second, and the preview update — even on a 45-megapixel RAW — refreshes in about a heartbeat and a half when you drag the Smoothing slider. No beachball. No stutter while Photoshop shuffles layers underneath.

Memory usage stays modest. Activity Monitor shows Photoshop climbing by roughly 120–180 MB while the plugin is open with a single layer active, and it releases that cleanly when you close the panel. Stacking three or four masked layers with different settings adds more, but it never felt like it was elbowing other apps out of RAM during a full afternoon of editing.

Stability is where it quietly shines. Across dozens of sessions — some short, some four hours deep with Smart Objects and multiple adjustment layers — it hasn’t crashed Photoshop once. The TNT build doesn’t phone home, so there’s no background network chatter, and it plays nicely with other plugins like Nik Collection and TK Actions running in the same session.

Soft window-light headshot cleanup

You’ve just imported a set of headshots from a morning shoot. Light is soft window light, no flash, ISO 400. Skin shows a little texture, a few under-eye shadows, the kind of detail a client notices but doesn’t want to see.

Step one: open the first RAW in Photoshop. Duplicate the Background layer with Cmd + J. You rename it “Skin” — old habit.

Step two: with the Skin layer active, you go to Filter > Imagenomic > Portraiture 4. The panel opens, and the AI masking engine immediately builds a preview mask. You see the mask as a grey-red overlay — eyes, eyebrows, mouth, the edge of the nostrils are clear. The skin is selected. No brushing yet.

Step three: you pull the Smoothing slider to about 60 and watch the preview. The forehead texture softens without turning plastic. The under-eye area still holds some natural contour. You tick the “Fine” detail preset, which dials the Threshold down a touch and brings back a whisper of pore structure. Satisfied, you hit OK. The plugin renders to the Skin layer.

Step four: you add a black layer mask to Skin (Option + click the mask icon) and paint white with a soft brush at 30% flow over the cheeks, forehead and chin. This way the retouching lands only where you want it, and the eyes stay crisp from the Background layer below. The whole pass — open, adjust, mask — takes under ninety seconds.

Step five: you switch to Lightroom Classic for the next batch. Select five frames, right-click, Edit In > Portraiture 4. The plugin opens as an external editor, applies the last-used preset, and sends a TIFF back to the catalogue. For batch work, you can save a preset named “Headshot Soft” and apply it across twenty selects with two clicks. The engine re-masks each face individually, so a group shot with three people gets three separate skin maps in one pass.

Activation limits across two machines

No standalone app, Photoshop or Lightroom required

Plugin only. Portraiture needs a host — Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, or Affinity Photo. There’s no standalone executable. If you don’t have one of those three installed, the download won’t do much.

Will it run natively on an M1 or M2 Mac?

Yes. The installer includes a universal binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel. No Rosetta required. Photoshop itself must be the native Apple Silicon version, or the plugin will fall back to Intel mode automatically.

Does it handle group photos sensibly?

It does. The AI engine scans for multiple faces in a frame and builds separate skin masks for each person. You can adjust smoothing globally, but the mask generation per face is automatic. Very useful for wedding party edits where you’d rather not retouch twelve faces by hand.

What about male skin — stubble, pores, the works?

By default, the engine errs on the gentle side. With the Smoothing slider around 40–50, it keeps most texture intact while softening diffuse redness. You can raise the Threshold value in the Fine Detail panel to preserve more grain and beard shadow. A preset named “Male Grooming” ships in the preset browser and is a solid starting point.

Is the TNT build safe to use offline?

Many photographers block their editing machine from the internet anyway. This build runs without calling home, so it suits an air-gapped workflow perfectly. No licence checks, no nag screens, no background processes.

Swap the red mask overlay for warm skin

Out of the box, Portraiture 4 leans toward a gentle, all-purpose look. A few tweaks make it feel like your own tool.

• Preview mask colour. The default overlay is a translucent red, but on warm skin tones it can blend in. Switch it to a bright cyan or green in the Mask panel. Easier to spot missed areas around the jawline and hairline at a glance.
• Default preset. The factory “Normal” preset is mild. Save your own as the default by adjusting Smoothing, Threshold, and Hue/Saturation sliders, then clicking the gear icon and choosing “Set as Default.” Future sessions open with your taste baked in.
• Output option. Under the Output tab, switch from “Same Layer” to “New Layer.” This keeps the untouched original underneath and makes masking non-destructive from the start. A tiny change that saves three clicks every single time.
• Fine Detail threshold. Crank it to around 60 if you shoot high-frequency portraits — older skin, harsh sidelight, anything with pronounced texture. The plugin preserves more micro-contrast while still evening out colour blotchiness. Good to know: the threshold works on luminance, not colour, so redness reduction stays consistent.
• Skin tone mask refinement. In the Skin Mask panel, enable “Auto-Update Mask” so the mask recalculates every time you move a slider. It costs a little preview speed but saves you from clicking Update manually while dialling in the skin colour range.

Once these are set, the plugin feels less like a demo and more like a workstation tool that knows what you shoot.

• Build 4501 introduces a next-generation AI smoothing engine.

• macOS 13 or newer
• Apple Silicon or Intel (64-bit)
• Host: Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, or Affinity Photo