Corel AfterShot 3 Pro

Uncover the pro photographer's secret to time-saving photo editing. Corel® AfterShot Pro is up to 4x faster than Adobe Lightroom. It's the photo editor that reveals your true creative potential and frees you: from high costs, from endless subscriptions, from hours spent editing at your computer. Import, process and output faster, and get back behind the camera where you belong with AfterShot Pro .

Highlights

Simple photo management Sort, organize and view all your photos in one place, quickly and easily with flexible file management options--no importing required.	Ultra-fast workflow Experience dramatically faster loading, selecting, editing and output with the world's fastest RAW conversion software, featuring performance that's up to 4x faster than Adobe Lightroom.	Powerful batch processing Edit and perfect one or thousands of photos with powerful batch processing controls and presets that let you quickly bring out the best in every image.

Send your photos from AfterShot to Photoshop with just a click

Skip the import - AfterShot Pro integrates well with Photoshop. With AfterShot Pro as your batch-photo processor and image manager, you can quickly process your RAW photos. Then, when you're ready for more detailed editing, simply click the "Edit with External Editor" button to export in TIF directly to PhotoShop.

What's New

Comprehensive Watermarking - Protect and promote your work with versatile Watermarking features. Deter unauthorized copying, brand your photos with your logo or contact info, or add text and graphics. Apply watermarks to individual photos or batches, and easily adjust size, rotation, position, transparency and more. Highlight Recovery - Regain more of the detail and tone from your overexposed photos with enhanced Highlight Recovery.  Blemish Remover - The new Blemish Remover offers circle, brush, polygon and freehand tools for detailed editing, making portrait editing faster and easier. Remove dust, spots, smudges and a variety of imperfections on any photo. Image Preset Library - Now it's easier to tap into the power of presets to automate more of your repetitive processing jobs or quickly reproduce a look that would otherwise be tedious to replicate. The new Image Preset Library^ lets you browse, preview and download free and for-purchase presets. Lens Corrections - Update to AfterShot for new, sought-after lens corrections that build on the hundreds of lenses already supported by AfterShot to quickly correct the different types of distortion introduced by various lenses. Join the AfterShot Pro community on Facebook to discover when new lens corrections are posted or to share your own. See what's new with plugins - Find and install free and for-purchase plugins, and get updates in a flash with AfterShot's new Plugin Manager^. Or make your own with our unique plugin API—a love of photography, a knowledge of C++ and the updated Plugin SDK are all you need.  Updated RAW camera profiles - AfterShot is constantly delivering support for today's most popular, powerful and creative cameras, including professional DSLRs, flexible and high-quality mirrorless cameras, and many more. A new dynamic camera profile updater^ notifies you when new cameras are added a new feedback mechanism captures and prioritizes your requests with Corel. Modular Camera Profiles - Get the latest camera profiles sooner—and without patching your software—with dynamic camera updates^. Simply browse and download directly from AfterShot. Don't see a camera you want? Hit the 'feedback' button and log your request directly to the AfterShot Pro development team.

Features

Powerful non-destructive photo editing

• Powerful adjustments - Whether you're shooting in RAW or JPEG, you can alter your photos using a wide variety of adjustment tools, including Crop, Straighten, Highlight Recovery, Noise Removal, Color, Temperature, Exposure, Highlights, Fill Light and more.
• Multi-version editing - Easily make adjustments to multiple versions of your master photo without ever changing your original file. Make an unlimited number of versions of one image, with a wide variety of corrections and customizable presets, including Black & White, Cross Processing and more.
• Precise control with Selective Editing - Apply adjustments exactly where you want them with unique Layers and Regions capabilities that isolate precise areas of your photo for adjustment.
• Local Contrast - Recreate the look of a high-end camera lens and make objects within an image 'pop' by bringing out the texture and dimension in your photos.
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools - Create impressive photos with intense visual contrast using High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools. Combine multiple exposures to create a single, stunning HDR photo. Within the AfterShot HDR module, apply Smart Photo Fix, White Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Fill Light/Clarity, Local Tone Mapping, High Pass Sharpening, and Digital Noise Removal.
• Noise reduction by Athentech - Optimize your images with Athentech Imaging Noise Removal. This award-winning technology automatically adjusts lighting for every pixel in a shot while maintaining true color and zero clipping.
• Red eye removal - Get precise control when cleaning up red eye in your photos.

Get complete control with a personalized workflow

• Customizable workspace - Easily change the AfterShot workspace any time to suit your task. Hide or show the Thumbnail, Preview, Browse and Tools panel. Choose from several viewing options, including Slideshow, Full Screen and Multi-Image view.
• Easy integration with photo editors - Process your RAW photos quickly in AfterShot, then simply click the "Send to External Editor" button to quickly export in TIF to PaintShop Pro, PhotoShop or another editor for more detailed editing.
• Accurate color correction - Fine tune the color in your photos with several adjustment tools, including Vibrance, Saturation, Color Balance and Mixer and Selective Color Control. Adjust everything from the overall color intensity for the entire image to the intensity of any single color.
• Curves and Levels - Apply adjustments exactly where you want them with unique Layers and Regions capabilities that isolate precise areas of your photo for adjustment.
• A complete photo manager - Take charge of your photos with extensive photo management support that lets you quickly organize your existing photos, and easily add new ones or catalogs any time. Powerful search tools, star ratings and other management tools let you quickly find photos even in very large collections.
• Quick review - Trouble deciding between similar shots? Easily compare two images side-by-side in AfterShot.
• Robust search tools - Finding the right photo in a collection of hundreds or thousands is fast with powerful Metadata tools. Add your own searchable keywords, ratings, tags and labels. Or search by camera-written data like date, camera type, settings, aperture and more.
• Customizable asset management - Unlike other workflow tools, AfterShot Pro 2 does not force you to import your images into a catalog just to work with them. Easily access your photos in existing folders, on a network or on a memory card. If you wish, try catalogs to take advantage of powerful digital asset management tools to organize your collection as it grows
• Create web galleries - Quickly create a web gallery to share your images online with friends, colleagues or clients. Choose from various gallery styles to control how your photos are displayed.
• Back up and archive - Use batches to easily back up and archive your AfterShot Pro catalogs.

The world's fastest RAW processing

• Fast batch processing - With up to 4x faster performance than Adobe® Lightroom® when exporting from RAW to JPEG and offering easy-to-configure batch processing, AfterShot 3 speeds you through batch processing. Take advantage of presets or custom settings, and easily set up batches for Web, print, galleries or easy backup.
• 64-bit processing power - Get more processing power, remove memory limitations and work with much larger images, including files of up to 250 Megapixels in size and TIFF format files larger than 30 MB with AfterShot Pro's 64-bit architecture. Access more memory, and get more stability and responsiveness app-wide. Building on our world famous multi-core performance, AfterShot Pro is up to 4x faster than Lightroom*—delivering results sooner and saving you even more time.
• OpenCL support - OpenCL lets you tap into the power of graphics cards (the GPU) to boost AfterShot Pro's processing speed. Depending on the graphics card and your computer system, the results can be dramatic. Give it try to see what OpenCL can do for you.

 

Compare

Comparing AfterShot to AfterShot Pro

New and Enhanced Features	AfterShot	AfterShot Pro
Watermarking		✔
Highlight Recovery	✔ Basic adjustments only	✔
Blemish Remover	✔	✔
Image Preset Library	✔	✔
Lens Correction Development Kit and Updater	✔	✔
Plugin Manager	✔	✔
Modular Camera Profiles	✔	✔
Updated Plugin Environment	✔	✔
Camera Profile Development Kit	✔	✔
General Features
Catalogs		✔
Advanced Tone, Highlights and Contrast controls (including Local Contrast filter)		✔
Advanced Sharpening and Noise controls		✔ Athentech Perfectly Clear
HDR Module		✔
Curves and Histogram		✔
Advanced Color Correction, Color Balance and Tint		✔
Metadata editing	✔ Basic	✔ Full
Multi-threading support	✔ Basic	✔ Full
Advanced importing options		✔
Advanced export options (multi-file batch)		✔
Multi-image mode	✔ Max. 2 images	✔ Max. 6 images
Configurable output color space		✔
Soft-proofing support		✔
Custom defaults per camera model		✔
Supported operating systems	Windows, Mac, Linux	Windows, Mac, Linux

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