Corel Aftershot Pro 3

With Corel®AfterShot™Pro 3, the lightning-fast RAW image editor, you can edit photos faster and create higher quality images, getting behind the camera faster. Mark and protect your work with watermarks.Regain more detail in overexposed photos with the optimized highlight recovery feature (including a new area control). Reduce processing time with the new blemish correction, batch processing, and new image preset library—time is money, after all. Develop your own lens corrections and plugins to customize the program to your needs, and easily update the camera profiles. Powerful, cost-effective, and subscription-free: AfterShot Pro 3 is the fastest way to sort, select, and optimize your photos.

Uses

1. Fast photo workflow so you're back behind the camera quicklyEcut your image edits faster, make your customers happy faster, and get back to where you belong faster: behind the camera. Corel®AfterShot™Pro 3 delivers up to four times faster performance than Adobe®Lightroom®. With this unprecedentedly fast RAW converter, photos can be loaded, selected, edited and output much faster. Plus, AfterShot Pro 3 is highly customizable, allowing you to set up your own photo workflow to suit your personal needs.
2. Easy photo managementWith flexible file management options, you can sort, organize, and view all your photos in one place. In this way, a lot of time can be saved – and time is money. You can browse and edit your photos anywhere on your Mac, Windows or Linux computer. The photos do not need to be imported and you can catalog them as you like. Photos can be sorted and searched by name, date, rating, day, label, ISO, exposure time or aperture value
3. Powerful batch processingEdit and optimize one or a thousand photos. With powerful controls and batch processing presets, you can automate repetitive operations to quickly get the most out of each image. Rename multiple files at once, apply adjustments to groups of photos, and convert and export your photos in series —the less time you spend editing, the more time you have to actually take pictures.

4. New! Embed watermarkProtect and promote your images with watermarks. Use this versatile and easy-to-use feature to prevent unauthorized duplication, tag your photos with a logo or contact information, or insert text and graphics. Apply watermarks to single or multiple photos and adjust properties such as size, orientation, position, and transparency.

1. Optimized! Highlights RecoveryAfterShot Pro 3's streamlined Highlights Recovery lets you get more detail and sounds back in overexposed photos. Thanks to a new algorithm, this feature can now be used to access even more data in the RAW files to achieve excellent image quality. A highlight recovery slider gives you precise control over the areas of the image to be adjusted.
2. New! Remove blemishes To save time and edit photos faster, you can now do more retouching and photo correction directly in AfterShot Pro 3 and no need to switch to PaintShop Pro or PhotoShop. The new blemish correction offers circle, brush, polygon and ink tools that allow you to edit your portraits quickly and easily. You can remove dust particles, stains and various other errors to create flawless photos.

7.New! Image Preset LibraryIt's now easier to take advantage of all the benefits of presets. With presets, you can automate monotonous processing tasks or quickly recreate a look that would otherwise require elaborate editing. The new Image Preset Library in AfterShot Pro 3 lets you browse, preview, and download free and purchasable presets.

1. Freedom of choicePhotography is all about possibilities – and AfterShot Pro 3 gives you more options than any other program. Use it on the platform of your choice: Windows, Mac OS or Linux. AfterShot Pro 3 is subscription-free. That means it belongs to you forever – at a significant price advantage over Lightroom. You can tailor the solution to your needs by setting up your own AfterShot workflow or developing your own lens corrections, plugins, and presets. In addition, you can easily access new camera profiles and interact with other photographers in the AfterShot community.
2. New! Lens Correction: Update, Create and ShareAfterShot Pro 3 provides several new and searched lens corrections based on the hundreds of lens corrections already supported. This can be used to correct many different types of distortion caused by lenses. Were you one of the first to use this new lens? Now every user can develop and share their own lens corrections – an optimal feature for photographers working with rare or brand new lenses. Follow the lens correction instructions, save them, and then load them into AfterShot Pro 3 or share them online with other AfterShot users. A new lens correction update program updates AfterShot Pro 3 as new lens corrections developed by Corel or the AfterShot community become available.
3. Plugin Manager and Updated SDKThe new Plugin Manager allows you to search for and install plugins directly from AfterShot Pro 3. Extend your program with free community-developed plugins, purchase purchasable plugins, and download updates. Do you want to create your own plugins? With our unique plugin API and plugin toolkit, you can create professional plugins that harness the full power of the AfterShot Pro processing pipeline. All you need is knowledge of C++, the updated plugin SDK, and a love of photography. Share your plugins for free with other users in the AfterShot community or work with Corel to make your plugins available for purchase. Would you like more information? Contact Corel using the feedback feature.
4. New! Dynamic update of camera profilesCorel provides support for the most popular, powerful and creative cameras. These include, for example, professional digital SLR cameras as well as flexible, high-quality mirrorless cameras. Thanks to dynamic camera updates, you can get the latest camera profiles earlier – and without having to install a software patch. You can access and download the new profiles directly from AfterShot Pro 3. The desired camera is not available? Click the Feedback button and send your request directly to the AfterShot Pro development team.'