Why the choice of portraits is not done based on the filters that are done by creating her character (gender, race etc ...).

What is the use to see the portrait of a woman Elf when we created a dwarf ?

I agree, I also think male portraits should not show up when making a female character and vice versa

Edited September 4, 201411 yr by Sensuki

The portraits are sorted two ways.

 

1: By sex.  Male comes before female.

 

2: By the name of the actual picture in the portraits folder, specifically, they are ordered alphabetically.

 

Clicking through portraits is not a big deal, I don't think Obsidian needs to invest any time here.  PS: All IE games had the same issue, you could pick an elf portrait on a human or a dwarf one on an elf.  I will admit getting a female portrait on a male and vice versa maybe we want to look at though.  Same goes for voice set .