Corel AfterShot Pro Windows 64-bit 3.7.0.446 Update 7

Corel AfterShot Pro is a RAW photo processor and photo manager for Windows, macOS and Linux. It organizes photographs, adjusts their appearance without changing the original files, and renders selected images to JPEG or TIFF. Its workflow can start directly in existing folders or use a catalog for a managed collection.

Browsing and organizing photographs

The File System view reads photographs from folders, network locations and memory cards. Selecting a folder displays its thumbnails; choosing a thumbnail opens a larger preview. Photos can be reviewed and rated before being added to a catalog.

A catalog stores information about a collection, including thumbnails, previews and adjustment settings. The Library provides access to catalogs, while searchable keywords, labels and ratings help narrow a collection. Searches can also use camera metadata, such as the camera model or aperture setting.

Multi-Image View compares up to six photographs or edited variations. Pick and reject flags mark selections during review. Adjustments in this view affect the active image, which is the last one selected, rather than every photograph displayed beside it.

Adjusting photographs without replacing the original

AfterShot Pro saves editing information separately from the master photo. Its preview shows the adjustments, while the original file remains intact. A new variation can begin with the default settings or capture the current edits, allowing several treatments of the same photograph.

The program accepts JPEG, TIFF and RAW files from supported cameras. RAW formats include ARW, CR2, DNG, NEF, ORF and RW2, with support determined by the camera profile. Presets retain combinations of adjustments for reuse across photographs.

Exposure and color

Exposure brightens or darkens the whole image. Highlights works on apparently overexposed areas, while Fill Light raises darker areas with less effect on midtones. Black-point and contrast controls shape the range between dark and light tones.

White balance can use a preset, a custom color temperature or the Click White tool. Click White samples an area that should be neutral and adjusts the image’s colors around that reference. The temperature control then refines the result.

Saturation changes overall color intensity, while Vibrance applies a gentler adjustment to skin tones and already saturated areas. Sharpening emphasizes edge detail. The separate RAW Noise control reduces noise in RAW photographs.

Local adjustments with layers and regions

An adjustment layer groups selected regions with the settings applied to them. Circle, polygon, curve and brush tools define those regions. Several regions can share one layer, so the same correction can affect several faces or other areas together.

Feathering creates a transition between the corrected region and its surroundings. Layer opacity controls the strength of the result, and inverting a region applies the correction outside it. A separate layer is needed when another area requires different settings.

Rotation, straightening, lens-distortion correction and color management operate on the whole image. Metadata changes also apply to the photo rather than a selected region.

Heal, Clone and Blemish Remover

Heal removes small imperfections in smooth areas through a circular selection, without choosing a source region. Clone copies content from a source region into the selected destination. Moving the source changes which part of the photograph supplies the replacement.

Blemish Remover combines source-based replacement with healing. It analyzes the selected area and its source, with size and feather controls for the boundary. Circle, polygon and curve selections are available; Brush Region is unavailable in this mode.

Each edited variation has one shared Heal/Clone/Blemish layer. Pasting another retouching layer replaces the existing one.

Combining exposures with AfterShot HDR

AfterShot HDR works with photographs of the same scene taken at different exposures. Merging their light and dark detail produces a single HDR image. Its processing modes handle different inputs:

• Exposure Merge combines exposures and provides presets and custom controls for adjusting the result.
• Single RAW Photo uses HDR tools to simulate the effect from one RAW photograph.
• Batch Merge processes sets of bracketed photographs with fewer controls. Selected results can then be refined in Exposure Merge.

Rendering photographs and batches

Export turns the stored adjustments into a new image file that other applications can display. JPEG output offers a quality control; TIFF provides another output format. Images can also be sent as TIF files to an external editor, such as Photoshop or PaintShop Pro, for further work.

Multiple outputs in one batch

A batch preset can contain several output tabs. The same selected photographs can produce small thumbnails and full-size TIFF files in one run, with each output placed in its own subfolder. Destination choices include a fixed folder, a folder relative to each source, or a location selected when exporting.

Sizing controls set width and height or the long and short edges. The option to prevent enlargement keeps smaller photographs from being expanded to the requested dimensions. Naming patterns and an overwrite control determine how the resulting files are saved.

Batch settings can apply multiple presets in a chosen order and set the output color space. Metadata controls select whether to embed EXIF, XMP, IPTC, copyright information and the color profile. Additional output sharpening can be applied after conversion.

Watermarked output

AfterShot Pro applies text or graphic watermarks to individual photographs or batches. Size, rotation, position and transparency determine their appearance within the output image. A logo or contact text can therefore be included as part of the export treatment.

Editions and processing extensions

The basic AfterShot edition includes folder browsing, photo adjustments and batch processing. Pro expands the collection, adjustment and output controls:

The Preset Library provides previews of additional processing presets, including free and paid choices. Plugins extend processing, and camera profiles add support for cameras. In-application preset browsing, Plugin Manager and dynamic camera updates are available on Windows and macOS; Linux uses separately downloaded resources.

AfterShot Pro is sold with a perpetual licence, and a trial is available.