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You can create a custom preset, but it’s for edits like noise removal, not creative effects.

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AfterShot’s noise removal tools are also a bit more difficult to preview accurately, there’s a magnifier but it’s free floating and ends up following your mouse as you move it to the editing rail, obscuring the tools.ĪfterShot has a modest set of presets for image effects (bleach bypass, cross processing, etc.) that work well enough. Lightroom’s noise reduction at 50 and Lightroom removed considerably more noise. Similarly, setting the Perfectly Clear plugin to 50 vs. We placed RAW noise removal at 100 percent in AfterShot and Lightroom’s noise removal to 50 and found cleaner, less noisy results from the Lightroom files despite the fact that half the amount of noise reduction was applied. Noise removal using both the Perfectly Clear plugin and the AfterShot’s standard slider were not as effective as Lightroom, either. The colors tended to look much more natural coming from Lightroom. Noise removal and automatic image correction tools from Athentec (of Perfectly Clear fame) are also incorporated out of the box.įor our test, we knocked off 2 EV of an over-exposed image in both Lightroom and AfterShot and exported them, making no other changes. EDITINGĪfterShot Pro 3 offers a strong set of editing capabilities including a heal/clone brush, red-eye removal, blemish corrections and the usual tools for adjusting exposure, color, and white balance.

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You can add stars, flags and color ratings plus keywords and use them to filter images, but only images organized in the program’s catalogue system can be filtered by metadata attributes (aperture, ISO, etc.) or keywords. The UI is very intuitive-even if you’ve had zero experience in older versions you’ll be up-to-speed very quickly.ĪfterShot has two main modes of image organization: a catalogue system (similar to Lightroom) or a file browser, which lets you navigate drives and folders directly. The TIF is flattened, so you won’t be able to make individual layer edits after export.ĪfterShot Pro 3 puts most of what you need into a single screen-there are no modules to flip between when it’s time to edit, but you will bounce between tabs to access plugins and some of the more detailed edits. 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.

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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.