Instead of a single "amount" slider, Portraiture 2 uses three threshold sliders:
This is where the magic happens. Portraiture uses a masking system rather than simple blurring. Imagenomic Portraiture 2 2.3 build 2308 1
For studio photographers shooting 1,000+ headshots, build 2308.1 includes a robust preset system. You can save "Male skin" (lower fine detail reduction) vs. "Female skin" (higher softness) and then batch process entire folders via Photoshop's Image Processor. Instead of a single "amount" slider, Portraiture 2
Skin looks "waxy." Fix: Your "Fine" threshold is too high. Reduce Fine Threshold to below 30% and increase "Sharpness" to 40. Instead of a single "amount" slider
Even before today's hyper-fast chips, version 2.3 was optimized for multi-threaded processing, making it one of the fastest plugins of its time.