PoreFect | Skin Smoothing Plugin for Final Cut Pro

Skin, PoreFected.

PoreFect is a professional skin retouching plugin for Final Cut Pro and Motion. Click Detect Skin and it finds the skin, smooths the blemishes, removes the shine, and keeps the pores. Highlight and Shadow tone pickers let you dial the selection exactly where you want it. No masks to draw, no tracking, no trashy blur look.

Two-band smoothing gives you separate sliders for tone and texture, so skin stays skin. Focus Priority weights the beauty pass toward your in-focus subject, so backgrounds get far less of the effect (no other FCP plugin does this). You also get skin-targeted color correction, sharpening with its own selection, and a Show Mask view so you always know where the effect is landing.

It all runs 100% on your Mac with GPU-native Metal. No cloud, no uploads, notarized by Apple, and a one-click installer that puts PoreFect right in your Effects browser.

Some plugins that do this run $200+. PoreFect gets you about 80% of that result for a fraction of the price. One-time purchase, no subscription, and it works with Final Cut Pro whether you’re on Creator Studio or the lifetime version. Requires macOS 15 or later and Final Cut Pro 12.3 or later.

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