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__ "Faces" saves the information as a numeric
reference to the features and their placement, therefore just a short line of numbers
can be phoned or e-mailed to other agencies that have the same program, and they
can create the image on their own computer in seconds.
__ "Faces" creates photo-realistic grayscale
images, and the program can also turn them into line art (which I find sometimes
better for wanted posters because the features are less specific.)
"Faces" can be used in some instances to assemble the underlying structure
of the features for an age-progressed portrait painting.
__ Up to now, all the fugitive identification pictures
I have done have been digitally painted from scratch, but in future I will use "Faces"
when appropriate, and then make the necessary refinements in Photoshop. (See below
for how to get the pictures out of "Faces" into a standard graphic file
format.)
__ In "Faces" all the skin tones are a neutral
gray, but the features make it easy to differentiate between the races. "Faces"
does not include children and is best with adults from twenty through middle-age
(but then, how many little old ladies are robbing banks?).
__ A major limitation of "Faces" is that images
can only be saved in and printed from their proprietary file format (which has the
facility to add text). There is no way to export to a Tiff that can be opened in
Photoshop. The solution is to bring up the portrait in the viewing mode and enlarge
the window to fill the monitor screen. The portrait will enlarge without pixelating,
to the same size. Then do a screen capture and import that into other programs.
FACES from InterQuest
$49.95.
Additional client licenses $25.
1 800 824-3223
www.facesinterquest.com
You can download a demo version with a few of the 4000 face elements that are in
the full program. The full program is shipped to you on CD, or you can buy the CD
at Blockbuster.
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The Center for Missing and Exploited children uses their own
application based on Photoshop, to manipulate and blend photographs, but they do
not do actual portrait painting. Their application is not available to the public.
You can see samples of their work at www.missingkids.org 
