Athentech Imaging’s Perfectly Clear is like a one-click histogram optimization tool that adjusts lighting throughout your photo without clipping or blowing out any of the extremes. Still, as nice as these controls are, you might find yourself looking jealously at the magnetic lasso and gradient filter selection tools in CyberLink’s PhotoDirector 3.Ĭorel includes a few interesting plug-ins with AfterShot Pro. In fact, you have access to all of the usual selection options, including brush size, intensity, and add/subtract blending modes. Adding multiple layers and switching among them is a snap–the program even lets you invert a layer, a common trick in full-featured photo editors, but somewhat unexpected in a more focused program like AfterShot.
You can apply a wide array of changes to your photo globally, or in an adjustment layer via a host of selection tools. And whereas Lightroom’s cropping tool is a frustratingly backward experience (the mouse moves the photo rather than the crop box), AfterShot works intuitively and naturally.ĪfterShot also offers elegant layer control. The straighten tool, for example, lets you dial in the exact rotation with giant grid lines that simplify the task of making even subtle corrections. Many tools reflect a deep understanding of how photographers like to work. A half-dozen tabs divide the editing pane into manageable sections for standard editing tools, adjustments, tone, details (sharpening, noise, and lens corrections), and metadata. Lightroom is burdened by a sluggish transition between the Library’s file management and lightweight editing tools, on the one hand, and the full-powered Develop view, on the other but AfterShot puts it all out there in a single (admittedly visually intimidating) mode.
It’s easier to move around AfterShot than Lightroom, too. You’ll probably want to use the AfterShot catalog, which lets you take advantage of the program’s superb search tools but if you just want to browse a batch of new photos, AfterShot lets you do that quickly and easily, saving the importing for later. Lightroom forces you to import images into its catalog before you can preview a photo, but AfterShot offers additional options. Perhaps the biggest difference between Lightroom and AfterShot is the way AfterShot catalogs your collection.
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