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Export a portrait with Face Make

What you will do

Section titled “What you will do”

Apply Face Make to a portrait containing one person and export the finished photograph as a JPEG. If you want to judge the applied Face Make result before saving it, you can first create an optional Export preview.

This route is for an enabled plugin that displays No preview layers can be created for this plugin, so its result is not available through the ordinary Retouch preview. The eye button beside Export processes the selected plugin combination for inspection without requiring you to turn off retouching that you want in the final photograph.

Arams also uses this stage for Lab, Frequency Separation, and Color Match. Their controls and visual effects differ, so the Face Make choices below are an example of the pre-export workflow, not settings to copy to those plugins.

Before you start

Section titled “Before you start”
  • Install and activate Face Make on this computer.
  • Open a project and select a portrait with one clearly visible person. This chapter does not cover choosing among several detected faces.
  • Use Local mode. This example does not describe cloud processing.

Face-shaping and makeup choices are subjective. Choose them for the portrait rather than treating any preset as correct for every subject.

Prepare Face Make

Section titled “Prepare Face Make”

Double-click the selected photograph to open it, and keep it open while configuring Face Make.

  1. Open the Retouching panel and select Local.
  2. Select All, then enable Face Make.
  3. Expand the Face Make section. Arams displays No preview layers can be created for this plugin and provides a Settings button with a gear icon.
  4. Click Settings to open the Face Make window. This is the plugin’s own settings window, not the global Arams Settings screen.
Face Make enabled in Local retouching with its Settings button and gear icon visible.
Open the Face Make-specific window with Settings; the gear here is not the global Arams Settings control. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

The Face Make window identifies the detected face and groups choices under Lifting, Makeup, Displace, Texture, and Reshape. Enable only a category that serves the portrait, expand it, and begin with a restrained adjustment. For example, you can enable Lifting and leave the more specific face-shaping controls at zero until you need them.

Watch the face in the plugin window, especially the eyes, mouth, jawline, skin texture, and hairline. Click Apply once the result suits the portrait and the subject remains recognizable. Apply closes the plugin window and keeps Face Make selected for export.

If you want a closer look at where complex plugin controls are opened, see Choose retouching tools and settings.

Create and inspect the pre-export result

Section titled “Create and inspect the pre-export result”

This preview is optional. Use it when you want to inspect the combined result of Face Make and the other selected plugins before saving the JPEG. If the settings already suit the portrait, skip to Export the finished photograph. Keep Face Make and any other retouching you want enabled in either case.

  1. Open the selected photograph and choose a face scale that shows the proportions, skin texture, and edges you want to preserve.
A single-person portrait open at 100 percent before Face Make pre-export processing.
Inspect the original portrait at a useful face scale before creating the pre-export result. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English
  1. Return to the Face Make section and keep it enabled.
  2. Click the eye button beside Export. Its tooltip reads Preview of all selected plugins before export.
Face Make enabled with the pre-export eye button visible beside Export.
Optional: use the eye button beside Export to inspect plugins that cannot create ordinary preview layers. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English
  1. Open EXPORT AND RENDER HISTORY and find the Export preview task in Local mode.
  2. Wait until the task reaches COMPLETED and 100%.
Export and Render History showing one Local Export preview task in progress for one photograph.
Track the Export preview task separately from the final export and wait for completion. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English
  1. Close the history and inspect the photograph again at the same scale. The green Retouch Preview Ready message confirms that the result is available.
  2. Compare the preview with the original, paying attention to facial proportions, eyes, mouth, skin texture, hair, and the outline against the background. If the result does not suit the subject, do not export that version. Return to the plugin settings and choose a different adjustment before continuing.
The single-person portrait at 100 percent with Face Make enabled and Retouch Preview Ready shown.
Inspect the ready pre-export result at the same face scale used for the original. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Export the finished photograph

Section titled “Export the finished photograph”
  1. Keep Face Make and every other retouching tool you want in the finished photograph enabled.
  2. Open Export settings and choose Hard drive — To computer.
  3. Confirm that the selected-photo count includes the portrait you want to export.
  4. Choose the destination and naming rule. Use a new subfolder if you want to keep the result separate from the original.
  5. Choose whether to resize the file. Leave Resize to fit off to preserve the original pixel dimensions, or turn it on when the delivery requires a smaller size.
  6. Select JPEG, review the choices, and click Export.
Export settings for one selected photograph showing Hard drive, an original-folder subfolder, Resize to fit off, and JPEG.
Review the destination, selected count, naming, size, and format before the final export. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English
  1. Open EXPORT AND RENDER HISTORY and wait for the final Export task to show COMPLETED and 100%. If you used the optional preview, it appears as a separate Export preview task.
  2. Find the JPEG in the chosen destination. The export is complete when the final Export task is complete and the saved file opens normally.

For more destination, naming, and file-checking options, see Export photographs and verify saved files.

If it does not work

Section titled “If it does not work”
  • Face Make cannot be selected: check that the plugin is installed and activated, then return to Local mode.
  • Settings does not open: keep the photograph open, enable Face Make, expand its section, and click the plugin’s Settings button.
  • The eye button is unavailable: select a photograph and confirm that Face Make is enabled. The button is the pre-export control beside Export, not Retouch preview.
  • The result is not ready: open the history and wait for the Export preview task to reach COMPLETED and 100%.
  • The final JPEG is missing: recheck the destination, subfolder, selected-photo count, and filename rule in Export settings, then check the final Export task separately from any optional Export preview task.
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