Aperty – Dedicated AI-Powered Portrait Enhancement

Aperty is an AI-powered photo editing application from Skylum Software, makers of Luminar Neo. But unlike Luminar Neo, Aperty is designed explicitly for editing portraits. To this end, it is stacked with portrait-friendly features such as Skin Tone, Eye Enhancement, Teeth Whitening, and even a Makeup Application tool.

Aperty is due to be released in September 2024. However, you can preorder a lifetime license for an early-bird price of US$199. Until then, here are some of Aperty’s key features to warm you up.

What is Aperty

Aperty is a photo editing application designed specifically for editing portraits. Using today’s AI-powered trickery, Aperty aims to simplify and automate once complex or tedious tasks such as skin retouching and body enhancement.

Also, Aperty stands to inherit versions of the features already found in Luminar Neo, such as the excellent Portrait Bokeh AI background blur tool, eye enhancement, and teeth whitening. Whether Aperty offers enough new features to tempt existing Luminar AI and Neo owners to purchase remains to be seen.

Finally, I’m happy to report that Aperty runs locally on your computer. This means Aperty’s performance will not be held back by the quality of your internet connection to the cloud but by the power of the hardware you’re running it on. Regarding hardware specifications, Skylum Software has yet to publish its recommendations.

Overall, Aperty stands to simplify the once-complex art of portrait editing, making it an exciting proposition for wedding photographers and anyone looking to polish their people-pics to perfection. Stay tuned for a full Aperty review.

How much does Aperty cost?

A single lifetime license for Aperty can be pre-ordered for US$199. Note that Aperty is not included in the Luminar Neo Pro Subscription. Preorder Aperty now

What does Aperty do?

• Skin Toning
• Eye Enhancement
• Teeth Whitening
• Makeup Application
• Bokeh Effects
• Body Enhancement

Skin Toning

You can use Aperty to correct poor skin tones and even poorly applied makeup. Specifically, you can add additional Blush, Highlight, or Contour and even change your subject’s Lip and brow color.

Eye Enhancement

Adjust the shape of your subject’s eye, remove redness, and add a little iris flare to make those eyes piece and pop.

Teeth Whitening

Like Luminar Neo, Aperty features a teeth whitening tool – ideal for enhancing your subject’s smile.

Makeup Application

Aperty features a range of makeup colors and styles

Bokeh Effects

You can use Aperty to blur your subject’s background, thus eliminating distracting background clutter and adding 3D-like depth to your image. Luminar Neo has a similar tool, and it’s outstanding.

Body Enhancement

Poor light and the wrong lens focal length can make your subjects appear bigger than they are. With Body Enhancement, you can correct unflattering light and weight-gaining optical phenomena such as wide-angle lens distortion.

Alternatives to Aperty

ACDSee Ultimate, ON1 Photo Raw, and Skylum Software’s Luminar Neo all feature portrait enhancement tools that enable you to whiten teeth, brighten eyes, and smooth skin. With ACDSee Ultimate, you can even redirect your subject’s gaze and turn their frown upside down into a smile. Meanwhile, Luminar Neo offers a version of many of the tools Aperty promises, such as background blur and body enhancement.

Moreover, you can edit any photo with ON1 Photo Raw, Luminar Neo, and ACDSee Ultimate, whereas Aperty is limited to portraits. As a result, Aperty must be extremely good in order to win the appeal of fewer people. We’ll find out whether that is the case soon enough. Subscribe to my newsletter.

Conclusion

Aperty is a unique proposition that, if well executed, could appeal to a narrow but numerous audience of portrait takers and, perhaps, any Joe or Jen taking people-pics with their smartphone. However, for Aperty to succeed, it has to exceed the capability of existing portrait enhancement tools found in general-use photo editing applications such as ON1 Photo Raw and Aperty’s stablemate, Luminar Neo. To find out if Aperty is worth your dime, stay tuned for my full Aperty Review.

About the Author

Richard Adams

A former IT specialist and photography fanatic, I began Silent Peak as way to combine two of my greatest obsessions. When I’m not writing, testing, and comparing photography software and gear, I’m roaming the mean streets and frost-bitten surf of coastal New Zealand.