Taking portrait photos is not as easy as it appears, and subtle differences in the lighting, shadows, or even make-up of the subject can have a huge impact on your photos. In a studio setting you will be able to control most of these factors, but outside of it you’ll find that it is close to impossible to do so.

Rather than trying to get the perfect lighting or ideal look for the subject, with a bit of photo editing you’ll find that you can correct and improve many parts of your portraits. If you choose a user-friendly editor such as Movavi Photo Editor, you won’t even need to have that much experience to edit your photos so that they look like professionally photographed portraits.

Within Movavi Photo Editor you’ll find numerous features – some of which are definitely going to be useful to help you with your photos. Its ability to improve the quality of your photos by manually adjusting the color settings or using the automatic ‘Magic Enhance’ tool will let you rectify most problems involving lighting, shadows, or even blurry and out of focus images.

On top of that Movavi Photo Editor also has several features that will let you directly edit your subject’s makeup. With these features you can add digital makeup such as lip tints, mascara, eye shadows, and blushes. Additionally you can whiten teeth, remove blemishes, and make eyes more vibrant so that they stand out more.

While the features above will undoubtedly be of particular interest when you want to picture edit a portrait, there are numerous other features in Movavi Photo Editor that you can apply situationally to:

• Utilize filters that will transform the visual appearance and stylize your portraits.
• Transform the frame and orientation by cropping, rotating, resizing, leveling or flipping it.
• Remove any objects, people or other elements from your portraits without leaving behind any imperfections.
• Replace the entire background of a portrait with a completely new image.
• Add text elements that can be personalized to create unique-looking captions, watermarks, or titles.

With all these tools right at your fingertips, all you need to do is select the ones that you feel will help you to improve your portraits. Rest assured Movavi Photo Editor will make it easy to apply them, and within a few minutes you should be able to familiarize yourself with each feature and be comfortable applying it.