2/1/2024 0 Comments Corel aftershot pro 1This is however pixel peeping and I am skeptical as to whether this will show up in prints. as it turns out pixel peeping reveals that ASP photos are have noticeably less resolution and micro-contrast while having more moire than pretty much every other raw converter ever. Sharpness is a single slider and has been the single source of disappointment so far. If you enter a Noise Ninja license key (any version), you get much finer control over grain.ĭeacon MacMillan ran some fairly thorough tests of AfterShot Pro and came up for this explanation for both its speed and its rather mediocre renders: I haven’t had issues with AfterShot Pro crashing yet but I haven’t pushed it hard. Unfortunately RawTherapee really doesn’t run right on the Mac. I have some examples from DarkTable to post as well now. On the other hand, if you aren’t as fussy about pixel level noise, AfterShot Pro is a lot more fun and fast to work with. Otherwise, if you are a night photographer I have to continue to recommend Adobe Lightroom 4 as your principal development tool for quality RAW photos despite the relatively weak workflow (in comparison to AfterShot Pro and Aperture). If anyone has any suggestions on how to get better noise reduction out of AfterShot Pro quickly and efficiently (I love what Topaz Noise does but it leaves hundreds of megabytes of TIFF detritus behind each fixed photo and is much slower than a built-in solution). Have a look for yourself (click to see larger versions, click titles to see full size versions):Īftershot pro raw noise removal plus heavy noise ninja Perfect uniform grain instead of blotchy chroma noise. I have most of these photos in Adobe Lightroom so I opened one of them of up to compare. Nothing could get rid of the chroma and blotches. I did what I could with different versions of the built in RAW noise reduction and Noise Ninja in AfterShot Pro. I noticed my train station shots had quite a bit of chroma noise in them. I’ve developed a set of photos and was getting good results until I hit a some night photos of the new Vienna Hauptbahnhof train station. The folded additional panels are only a click away though.Īnother great advantage over both Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture is that native plugins in the former Bibble work directly with RAW data instead of on TIFFS, saving changes out to complex XML files, which is a much more storage and workflow friendly solution than either Lightroom or Aperture. As there is less redundant info on the screen than in Lightroom, you enjoy seeing what you need when you need it. There’s almost no reason your hands have to go the mouse once you are used to AfterShot Pro. There are great keyboard shortcuts and you can customise them further yourself. Photos seem to load faster and I feel much more in control of my pictures, more like they are in my hands than with Lightroom. You can rate, review and develop pictures at all times without switching modules. Unlike Lightroom, Aftershot Pro is fun to work in. On the other hand, AfterShot Pro is actually fast and lightweight. AfterShot Pro used to be known as Bibble (through version 5) before the Corel purchase.įirst impressions: AfterShot Pro suffers a bit from the Java cross-platform look in comparison to the sharp lines of Apple’s Aperture or Adobe’s Lightroom. Might be just the trick for us to move more of our computers to Linux. In this case, I bought a copy of Corel AfterShot Pro during their winter sale as AfterShot Pro will work on OS X, Windows AND Linux. In any case, my company owns many thousands of dollars of Adobe software but I’m always looking for a chance to support the underdog. Even when it looks like there’s sunshine, then there isn’t. It doesn’t help that Apple did break the lock on reasonably priced professional video editing (Final Cut Pro) and visual fx (Motion) only to drop the ball with their Pro Apps at the same time as imposing an iOSification of OS X on their pro customers. There is a single agenda: squeezing us for all they can get while making certain no one else can make any inroads into any of their markets. Everything awful one could write about Microsoft in the dominant Wintel Office days one could write about Adobe, despite the very talented people they have on staff.Īdobe is a company run by the bean counters without vision and without empathy for its customers. Adobe are monopolists abusing their position to force subscription software down our throats as well and/or upgrades on every upgrade cycle.
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