If you need to do more detailed work, the program exports an 8- or 16-bit TIF file in a number of different color spaces to an editor of your choice. These new features join an already robust program capable of layered editing, local contrast corrections, selective edits, red-eye removal and tools for creating HDR images.

This isn’t all that important if you’re faithfully holding on to a single camera, but for anyone with gear acquisition syndrome or the need to process files from multiple cameras, it’s a godsend.Īlso new, and also quite welcome, is a plugin marketplace where you can browse and quickly add tools to the software-some free, others not. There, you can browse and add camera profiles on an a la carte basis. Rather than do a massive update every time a new camera hits the market, Corel puts updated camera profiles in a little tab off to the right. If your specific lens isn’t there, you can create and save your own corrections for future use.Īnother new feature we really appreciated was the camera profile updater.

Another marquee new feature is a set of lens profile correction tools to fix barrel and pin cushion distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting.

Some of the major additions include the ability to add watermarks to images and a blemish remover. Version 3’s new features are mostly concentrated around the first two missions. WHAT’S NEWĪfterShot is a RAW processor, non-destructive image editor and organizer.

Now in version 3, the program takes a major leap in processing speed and adds new tools to tackle more editing tasks. That’s definitely the ideal Corel is striving for in AfterShot Pro. If there is such a realm, what would the Platonic ideal of an imaging program look like? To judge by a number of recent introductions, it would blend RAW processing, non-destructive editing and image organizing into a coherent whole. The Greek philosopher Plato was famous for (among other things) the concept of a “Platonic realm” where things exist in an idealized form.

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