Corel AfterShot Pro 3 | RAW Photo Editing Software [PC/Mac Key Card]

I love it would recommend it to others

Hubbys review:

I enjoy taking photos with my Sony camera, but Im an amateur and have never learned an editing program. As a result, Ive captured beautiful moments, but my pictures are imperfect and need organization and correction before I can share them with family and friends. My pictures taken on my smartphones over the years especially need help. Many pictures seemed hopeless due to overexposure, blemishes and other issues, but Ive been truly amazed at how photos that are dull, overexposed and lacking in many ways can be transformed with Corel AfterShot Pro 3 into beautiful images to frame and share. Although AfterShot Pro 3 seems perfect for batch editing by Pros, Im using it for for editing individual photos and am really pleased with it so far.

One of the main applications for the program like this is to edit raw image files. This one does not support newer Panasonic camera models. So it is useless for those camera owners, as it would not open their raw files. I would not be surprised if AfterShot Pro3 was not current on other camera brands either.

Not easy to use.

I am a longtime user. Since they bought bibble. I have recently had to re-do my computer. I have been trying to get a working serial number for almost a month. They give me a new case number and a week later, refer it back to old number. Do not even try to call them. They are off shore and VERY difficult to understand. You ask for US based rep and they have none. So you ask for an ENGLISH speaking rep and 15 minutes later you get someone that is even harder to understand. All they want you to do is upgrade. I fell for that about 8 years ago when they bought bibble. No wonder they are struggling

I have been a serious amateur photographer for some time with more knowledge than talent. I have used Photoshop a lot but never used a work flow package other than iPhoto, so despite understanding the concepts of workflow I have not had any practical experience using any tool like Lightroom. So out of the box this was a little intimidating to use.

I was excited about this program because I need a program for my Photoshops incompatibility with the new Nikon NEF raw files. If you have a small monitor, this may be ok. I have a large high resolution monitor (because I do high quality photography) and this program is low resolution only. After several emails to tech support, there is just no solution to it. Unfortunate, see photos attached.

When you get started and you eard of lightroom and did not know how to go around with (LR is very complex) you might start to look around for something that does the same thing. Or if you have enough of LR. There is a nice tutorial with a pro out there. If you are the kind to do just a couple of adjustment like contrast, sharpening and exposure, you dont need LR. ASP do that and more. It does not do everything LR does, like if you are a die had vignetting, they have it. But right now there is no white vignetting. But there is always a work around, you can export your picture into something like Photoshop elements or Paintshop Pro. Many users can be just happy with it, but did not eard of Aftershoot pro. Its still a young software, but they listen their customers. If you dont want to invest 10$ per month for Lightroom photoshop all your life, get into ASP. I donT know about the raw conversion, even on Lightroom not everybody is happy about it. I shoot JPG.

My husband and I picked up a Nikon DSLR prior to a China vacation in 2014. The D3200 is a low end Nikon equipped with a 24.2 Mpixel sensor, 11-point auto-focus, native ISO 100 - 6400 (extended to 12800), 12-bit RAW files. I have not attached any images processed by this software because, for lack of a better term, Aftershot Pro 3 does not appear to support Nikon cameras. Or if it does support Nikon cameras it is a well-kept secret.