Corel AfterShot Pro Review: A Worthy Competitor to Adobe Lightroom? Discussion

[DCR Staff]

By David English

If you’re into digital cameras, you’re probably still searching for the perfect photo editor. Full-featured photo editing software, such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or Apple’s Aperture, can be somewhat slow and cumbersome, especially on an older desktop or notebook computer. You can find smaller editors that are lightning fast, but they tend to be too lightweight in their capabilities. On the other hand, the recently released Corel AfterShot Pro ($99.99) is well worth considering as an alternative to either Lightroom or Aperture.

All three programs offer non-destructive photo editing, which means the original image is left intact. You can back out of your edit steps at any time to return to a prior edit. The feature mix is different among the three programs, although you could argue that the tools and results are just about comparable. Although it might or might not turn out to be your favorite, AfterShot Pro is in the same league as Lightroom and Aperture in both the quantity and quality of its features. What's more, Corel's new software package runs on a choice of three different operating systems (OS): Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux. (Note: System requirements for each platform appear at the end of this review.)

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[KCook]

Dunno about the speed. But the description and GUI for this remind me a lot of ACDSee Pro 5.

Kelly