Character portrait software

[bubbagump]

Can anyone out there in Paizo-land recommend some good software for generating character portraits? Thanks in advance.

[Valegrim]

wow good question; I just draw mine by hand having the training and all, but it sure would be cool to have a generator do this.

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Valegrim wrote:

wow good question; I just draw mine by hand having the training and all, but it sure would be cool to have a generator do this.

I also draw mine by hand, but I would sure like a nice and versatile generator to do some of the work...

[Dragonmann]

Somebody needs to liberate one of those police composite sketch programs that have libraries of hundreds of facial features.

You know, like the ones on TV shows...

[tdewitt274]

A quick search on Google for 'police composite face software' (no apostrephes) gave quite a few hits. Ranging from $150-$500

FACES seems like it could work. According to the Wiki entry, it's the most popular US choice. There's an education version for $99.

[tdewitt274]

Here's the link for the EDU version. Doesn't say anything about verification, but you may want to look further.

http://www.iqbiometrix.com/products_faces_40_edu.html

[bubbagump]

Ooooooh, the trouble I could get into with this! (wrings hands wickedly)

[Fatespinner]

bubbagump wrote:

Ooooooh, the trouble I could get into with this! (wrings hands wickedly)

It might be a bit difficult to do demi-humans with this program, however, since I don't think the designers had 'fantasy character portraits' in mind.

[tdewitt274]

Fatespinner wrote:

bubbagump wrote:

Ooooooh, the trouble I could get into with this! (wrings hands wickedly)

It might be a bit difficult to do demi-humans with this program, however, since I don't think the designers had 'fantasy character portraits' in mind.

It might still be possible for the Photoshoppers out there. The PH (3.0 for sure) includes pictures of each race from a profile point of view (stretch and skew mostly). The above mentioned software exports out to JPG, so you might be able to do some magic that way.