Included among the available tools are those for selecting different palettes for working with materials, colours and layouts. Linking with social media is another area covered by the Manage layout.Īs you would expect from its title, Edit layout is the place for making adjustments to images. Fans of EXIF and IPTC data can still import this information. When selecting the Manage layout section, you are provided with the means to browse, organise and add tags, such as names and location details with the aid of a Map facility, to images for easy recognition. Helping introduce you to the product's feature, the Home has options for Getting Started, What's New, Learn, Store and the previously mentioned choice of workspaces. You still have access to the different layouts of Home, Manage and Edit that have become a standard feature of PaintShop Pro over the last few years. As part of the initial Welcome screen, you can view and access different workspaces designated as Photography, Essentials, Complete and Sea-to-Sky. Knowing users like to work in different ways for various tasks, Corel has designed this product to be adaptable to the user's needs. Version 2021 is no exception to this although subsequent loadings are much quicker.
This version of the graphics software comes with a collection of bonus items made up of Painter® Essentials™ 7, PhotoMirage™ Express and Corel AfterShot™ 3.įollowing its current practice of presenting the user with both 32 and 64-bit offerings of the software, you can opt for installing either offering or both depending on your needs, Corel PaintShop Pro always seems to have a slowish start when first fired up. I have been looking at the top-of-the-range Ultimate product of PaintShop Pro 2021. Shame about the lack of any kind of masking or layers.Now up to version 2021, the latest edition of PaintShop Pro is available as either the vanilla or ultimate offering. I did a ton more testing/comparing and DPP gives far better results than LR, sometimes on auto and sometimes manually adjusted. Then, lo and behold, I hit the Auto button (for Gamma adjustments) and the entire sky was perfect!! Correct colour across the entire sky and all the cloud detail had returned. I went to DPP and didn't even bother using the Highlight slider (pretty useless) but used the gamma corrections instead and had a dramatically better result than LR. A lot of the cloud detail had come back, but not where the weird sky colour was. A blown-out white sky with no visible clouds due to overexposure - became a weird aqua coloured sky blending into the correct blue with some banding along the way.
This might make you laugh, but if you are a Canon user and know how to get the most out of the software - Digital Photo Professional can recover more highlights than LR! I had an image which LR was messing up.
The price for new customers is $79.99 USD/CAD, while existing customers can upgrade to the newest version for $59.99 USD/CAD.
With this, new camera profiles are available to download in-app as soon as they’re released by the company’s development team.Ĭorel AfterShot Pro 3 is available in English, German and Japanese through the product's website Windows, Mac and Linux are supported.
Photo presets can also be applied via the new in-app preset library both premium and free presets are offered.įinally, AfterShot Pro 3 features a new modular delivery system for providing updated and new Raw profiles more quickly than the previous software version. Joining the new algorithm is the addition of ‘comprehensive watermarking,’ including the ability to watermark in batches, rotate the watermark’s angle, adjust its size, and alter its transparency.Īnother new editing tool is Blemish Removal & Correction, which aims to eliminate the need to use a separate app like Photoshop to remove blemishes and perform other touchups and small corrections. The newest version brings several added features and updates, including a Lens Correction Development Kit for creating custom lens corrections, an in-app plugin manager, and a few new and improved tools for touching up photos.ĪfterShot Pro 3 is equipped with a completely new Highlight Recovery algorithm, and as such Corel claims the Highlight Recovery Range slider can pull more tones and details from overexposed Raw photos. Corel has launched AfterShot Pro 3, the latest version of its photo editing software.