AfterShot Pro 3

RAW Photo Editor

• NEW Comprehensive Watermarking
• ENHANCED Highlight Recovery
• NEW Blemish Remover tools
• NEW Image Preset Library

Uncover the pro photographer’s secret to time-saving photo editing.

Corel® AfterShot™ Pro 3 is up to 4x faster than Adobe® Lightroom®*. It’s the photo editor that reveals your true creative potential and frees you: from high costs, from endless subscriptions, from hours spent editing at your computer. Import, process and output faster, and get back behind the camera where you belong with AfterShot™ Pro 3.

Simple photo management

Sort, organize and view all your photos in one place, quickly and easily with flexible file management options–no importing required.

Ultra-fast workflow

Experience dramatically faster loading, selecting, editing and output with the world’s fastest RAW conversion software, featuring performance that’s up to 4x faster than Adobe Lightroom.

Powerful batch processing

Edit and perfect one or thousands of photos with powerful batch processing controls and presets that let you quickly bring out the best in every image.

Send your photos from AfterShot to Photoshop with just a click

AfterShot Pro integrates well with Photoshop. With AfterShot Pro as your batch-photo processor and image manager, you can quickly process your RAW photos. Then, when you’re ready for more detailed editing, simply click the “Edit with External Editor” button to export in TIF directly to PhotoShop.

Comprehensive Watermarking

Protect and promote your work with versatile Watermarking features. Deter unauthorized copying, brand your photos with your logo or contact info, or add text and graphics. Apply watermarks to individual photos or batches, and easily adjust size, rotation, position, transparency and more.

Highlight Recovery

Regain more of the detail and tone from your overexposed photos with enhanced Highlight Recovery. Powered by a new algorithm, this feature lets you access more of the data in your RAW files for superior image quality.

Save time and edit faster by doing more touchups and photo corrections in AfterShot Pro 3, rather than jumping to PaintShop Pro or Adobe® Photoshop®. The new Blemish Remover offers circle, brush, polygon and freehand tools for detailed editing, making portrait editing faster and easier. Remove dust, spots, smudges and a variety of imperfections on any photo.Blemish Remover

Now it’s easier to tap into the power of presets to automate more of your repetitive processing jobs or quickly reproduce a look that would otherwise be tedious to replicate. The new Image Preset Library^ lets you browse, preview and download free and for-purchase presets.Image Preset Library

Lens Correction Development Kit

Make and share your own lens corrections—ideal for photographers working with rare, unique or spanking new glass. Simply follow the instructions, save your correction, then load it into AfterShot Pro 3—or share online.

Lens Corrections

Update to AfterShot Pro 3 for new, sought-after lens corrections that build on the hundreds of lenses already supported by AfterShot to quickly correct the different types of distortion introduced by various lenses. Join the AfterShot Pro community on Facebook to discover when new lens corrections are posted or to share your own.

See what’s new with plugins

Find and install free and for-purchase plugins, and get updates in a flash with AfterShot Pro 3’s new Plugin Manager^. Or make your own with our unique plugin API—a love of photography, a knowledge of C++ and the updated Plugin SDK are all you need. Share your plugins freely with the AfterShot community, or work with Corel to sell them.

Updated RAW camera profiles

We’re committed to constantly delivering support for today’s most popular, powerful and creative cameras, including professional DSLRs, flexible and high-quality mirrorless cameras, and many more. A new dynamic camera profile updater^ notifies you when new cameras are added a new feedback mechanism captures and prioritizes your requests with Corel.

Modular Camera Profiles

Get the latest camera profiles sooner—and without patching your software—with dynamic camera updates^. Simply browse and download directly from AfterShot Pro 3. Don’t see a camera you want? Hit the ‘feedback’ button and log your request directly to the AfterShot Pro development team.

Get involved!

AfterShot Pro wants you! Corel has built AfterShot Pro to give you, the photographer, control, letting you make you own plugins, lens corrections and presets. Now a new feedback loop makes it easier for you to send your ideas and requests to the Corel Photo team–better helping us to meet your needs. Simply click ‘feedback’ and send us your comments.

^Available on Windows and Mac only. Linux users can download new Camera Profiles, Presets and Plugins her.

Powerful non-destructive photo editing

Powerful adjustments

Whether you’re shooting in RAW or JPEG, you can alter your photos using a wide variety of adjustment tools, including Crop, Straighten, Highlight Recovery, Noise Removal, Color, Temperature, Exposure, Highlights, Fill Light and more.

Multi-version editing

Easily make adjustments to multiple versions of your master photo without ever changing your original file. Make an unlimited number of versions of one image, with a wide variety of corrections and customizable presets, including Black & White, Cross Processing and more.

Precise control with Selective Editing

Apply adjustments exactly where you want them with unique Layers and Regions capabilities that isolate precise areas of your photo for adjustment.

Local Contrast

Recreate the look of a high-end camera lens and make objects within an image ‘pop’ by bringing out the texture and dimension in your photos.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools

Create impressive photos with intense visual contrast using High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools. Combine multiple exposures to create a single, stunning HDR photo. Within the AfterShot HDR module, apply Smart Photo Fix, White Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Fill Light/Clarity, Local Tone Mapping, High Pass Sharpening, and Digital Noise Removal.

Noise reduction by Athentech

Optimize your images with Athentech Imaging Noise Removal. This award-winning technology automatically adjusts lighting for every pixel in a shot while maintaining true color and zero clipping.

Red eye removal

Get precise control when cleaning up red eye in your photos.