Batch-retouch portraits with AI on your desktop. Get consistent results across thousands of photos and reclaim your evenings.

For photographers, post-production backlogs are a major source of unbillable hours. Skylum Aperty directly tackles this by automating the most time-consuming task: portrait retouching. Its core value proposition is cutting editing time from hours to minutes—the vendor quantifies this as reducing a 12-hour wedding retouching job to just 45 minutes. Unlike cloud-based competitors, Aperty runs entirely on your local Mac or Windows computer. This provides two critical advantages: complete privacy for client photos and a fixed cost structure. There are no per-image credits or upload queues; you can edit an unlimited number of photos offline. This makes budgeting predictable, whether you choose a subscription or the lifetime license. Furthermore, Aperty is designed to fit into existing workflows, not disrupt them. It functions as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, allowing photographers to send images for AI retouching and receive them back without clumsy export/import cycles. The focus on 'natural' results ensures skin tones are smoothed and blemishes removed without the artificial, 'plastic' look, maintaining a professional standard.