Corel AfterShot Pro Review

Corel AfterShot Pro

Corel AfterShot Pro

Some Great Features :

    • Complete RAW workflow: Get super-fast RAW processing and color accurate images

    • Flexible Photo Management: Choose from a variety of workflow options to organize, manage, enhance, and output photos virtually any way you want .

    • Advanced non-destructive editing: Experiment with a huge range of adjustment tools without altering your original photos

    • Breakthrough Performance: Accelerate every part of your workflow -- and get back behind your camera faster.

    • A Multi-platform solution: Corel AfterShot Pro runs on Windows, MAC OS, and Linux so you can take advantage of this powerful photography workflow software on the platform of your choice.
Corel AfterShot Pro is a fast, flexible photo workflow solution that combines robust photo management, advanced non-destructive editing and complete RAW processing.
List Price: $ 99.99


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really astonishing for its price,March 10, 2012
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JLDMan "JLDMan" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corel AfterShot Pro (CD-ROM)
My original use was with the previous Bibble Pro version, and then I've gone with the upgrade to Aftershot Pro. The catalog management is top tier, it's fast, and is the *only* multi-platform RAW image editor which includes Linux. It's terrific to work with a non-destructive editor.
Things that really stand out to me:
- I find the interface intuitive
- Noise Ninja integration (and the RAW noise settings) is powerful.
- There are plug-ins, which show promise for the platform (wavelet denoise).
- The contact sheet prints work soooo much better than with Bibble.
- Active forum (forum.corel.com)
- Very CPU and memory efficient.
- ASP provides "Perfectly Clear" optimization, which is frequently the major adjustment that I use (not always, sometimes it goes to far, and other times, there is a lot more work to be done).
- Lots of lenses are supported
Things that I'd like to see added:
- Some HDR capability. There are lots of good programs available for amazing HDR, but having the capability to do some basic blending is important.
- Better print integration (if you are a Linux user, then look at Turboprint)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Metadata power, backwards compatible with older cpu,March 17, 2012
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Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel AfterShot Pro (CD-ROM)
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I wasn't prepared to like this software, never having used Bibble and being one who always used Adobe for photo editing.
This software has some real power in the area of metadata (those tags hidden in the data that hold your image information like date, camera setting and more.) And you can export to RAW, JPG or TIFF. I made the bad mistake as an amateur of not saving RAW data years ago on some very fine photos taken when I got into digital photography, and it's a tragedy; my best photo is lacking all the data to reproduce it with the best resolution.
The photo management (sorting) is slicker than the somewhat clumsy Adobe Elements and I like it. You can tag the photos or find by a number of parameters.
"Non-destructive" editing is there also--important for the reason I gave earlier--you need to save your originals unmodified so you can retain all your data information in your photos. Again, this is a mistake I made years ago until I learned WHY you do not want to save only a modified image.
Printing to my HP printer seemed pretty fast, too.
Supposedly, this software is made to be backwards compatible with older CPU's. I'm running on Win 7 Pro but I have a five year old PC, so I can verify that at least for my older HP Pavilion, this is true.
System requirements:
PC's
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP with the latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
Intel Pentium 4 or later or AMD Athlon 64 or later
2 GB RAM
250 MB hard drive space
Mouse or tablet
Minimum display resolution: 1024 x 600
CD-ROM drive
There is also a version MAC compatible and a Linux OS compatible version as well. I did not test these but for MAC:
Mac OS X 10.5 10.6 or 10.7
All Intel Mac models are supported
2 GB RAM
250 MB of free hard drive space
Minimum display resolution: 1024 x 600
CD-ROM drive
Formats supported: RAW file support for most digital cameras, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, MRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAW, RW2, RWL, SR2
JPEG, TIF
Cameras: RAW files from most digital camera manufacturers. I use an older Rebel and it is supported. You can check the Corel site for complete info on your camera.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An add-on program to Corel's photo editing suite that provides complete RAW processing and a robust flexible photo-mgmt system!,March 21, 2012
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Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I liked this program. I'm not a professional photographer, and I don't take a ton of digital photographs on picture-taking expeditions. And, more importantly, I don't save RAW files too much either - they consume so much diskspace. So this product is not something that I really have a need for. I suspect if I were a professional photographer I would rather use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, another program I own and have used. Both programs focus on working with, and manipulating, RAW images - the images that take up about ten times the disk space of ordinary JPG or TIF files, but are so much easier to tweek and end up with an awesome image. And both programs include a robust flexible photo management system that enables the skilled user to easily catalog, and later find, those images entered into the system.
To test this program I installed it on my 17" MacBook Pro that has 8 GB RAM. It's the only computer I have that has more than the 2 GB requirement to be able to use this software. However, I might note here that Lightroom also has a 2 GB requirement and I use it on a PC that only has half a gig of RAM. I found this software to really smoke as far as processing speed goes. But that might be due to the fact that I have so much RAM to give to it.
With regard to the advanced non-destructive editing offered, I'd have to say it was great when considering this product is designed to be a powerful BATCH PROCESSING tool for serious photographers who take a lot of pictures and have to do a bunch of darkroom tasks to make them presentable. But I would not even try to suggest that the editing tools available rank with what Adobe Photoshop has to offer. And I must say I am still partial to Lightroom which I consider to be a superior product. Of course it costs a bunch more, too.
In sum, if you are looking for a somewhat inexpensive option for processing RAW files either singly or in batch, and you are not a professional photographer with tons of RAW files to work with, then this program is probably for you. You can export versions of your RAW files as JPG or TIF and further edit them in another more sophisticated image editing program. 4 stars!
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