While Adobe and Apple have thus far been the reigning monarch of Mac - based photo management and workflow , Corel has now put some fresh competition into the arena with its fresh AfterShot Pro .
Announced on Monday at CES , AfterShot Pro is targeted to photograph pro and hobbyists . It assay to compete on the same playing champaign as Apple ’s Aperture and Adobe ’s Photoshop Lightroom for the Mac , and is also compatible with the Windows and Linux operating organisation . AfterShot Pro , based on technology fromBibble Labs , which Corel develop last year , concentrates on photo direction , non - destructive redaction , birthday suit processing , and batch processing , while at the same time offer up a conciliatory workflow .
lensman can use AfterShot Pro to do spry touchups and fitting to RAW images and then integrate their cognitive operation with other image - editing applications for deep edits . “ We see AfterShot Pro as a jumping off point , an appurtenant to Photoshop , ” said Jeff Stephens , AfterShot ’s product manager and former President of the United States of Bibbel Labs .
AfterShot Pro interface
Workspace customization
The program features a default gray unified windowpane interface with a vast variety of optic and photo redaction options . There are various way to customize the workspace , and the flexible tabbed interface and panel system give the program a clean , professional look . On the left side , the Library , File System , and Output tab afford entree to photos and printing selection . Lining the right boundary of the user interface window are edit tab such as Standard , Color , Tone , Detail , Metadata , and more . Each tab , when clicked , offer extra choice . A line of thumbnails , showing images in a folder , look in a dialog box to the side of the independent figure . you’re able to choose to hide or show the tabloid and thumbnails and work in full screen mode .
The platform ’s forward-looking file scheme let you drill deeply into your exposure catalog to find the precise images you ’re looking for — shot by location , metre , file format , rating , or even type of electron lens .
AfterShot Pro interface
AfterShot Pro interface
Familiar editing tools
Within the tabbed user interface , AfterShot offers all the standard image editing tools . A histogram shows the range of basic adjustments in genuine time . The political program feature a large number of customizeable presets , colouration correction and balance tools , exposure adaption , sharpen , racket , and lens correction , and more . you’re able to expend level to separate parts of a picture and lend oneself different levels of adjustment to each part .
Noise Ninja , a interference step-down system of rules , is built into AfterShot Pro . This technology is designed to strike a balance between noise curtailment and item conservation to offer natural - sounding , artifact - complimentary results .
Multi-core friendly
AfterShot is multi - weave and optimized for multi - core and multi - CPU computers for fast output , conversion , on - silver screen performance , and image browse . It ’s design to be especially in effect in processing altogether images and provides maximum speed for on - CRT screen preview , adjustments , and end product . It bear out a wide mountain range of camera admit Canon , Nikon , Olympus , Pentax , Sony , Leica , Kodak , and others .
AfterShot Pro offers a plug - in SDK that allows third - party developer to make proprietary nag - ins that work on birthday suit file . The programme ships with a Black & White conversion plug - in that lets you furbish up one or two coloration back into an image . AfterShot Pro plug - Indiana work seamlessly with undo / redo commands and editing - history tools .
AfterShot Pro also feature ripe batch - processing putz . you may rename multiple images , apply the same readjustment place setting to groups of similar files , or commute and export photos to a pre - outlined size of it and format .
Interface with vertical photo panel
Interface with upright photo panel
System requirements and availability
Corel AfterShot be $ 100 and will be usable for electronic download on Monday . box in North America will go on sale January 24 . The program is compatible with Intel Macs run oxygen X 10.5 and higher . The program will be available in English , French , German , Italian , Dutch , and Japanese .
