

If you, like most serious photographers, shoot RAW, you’ll want to be sure the software you choose supports your camera. AfterShot displays up to six images side by side, but swapping out images requires more steps.īoth Lightroom and AfterShot Pro are known as RAW workflow programs. Then, you can view, say, all the photos three stars or higher. You can quickly zoom into details, swap out a new select or candidate, and rate each using one to five stars and color flags (plus add keywords, if you didn’t do that automatically on import). Lightroom’s two-up side-by-side display compares a “select” image to a candidate. Both Lightroom and AfterShot enable fast comparing and sorting. You know that somewhere among those hundreds of pictures you took at the birthday party lurk a few gems-if only you could find them. Image: Sally Wiener Grotta & Daniel Grotta Six Shot: AfterShot Pro lets the user compare and sort up to six images at a time. But the scrappy newcomer has a nice selection of photo tools that will satisfy many users.

The most popular professional software, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, a mature product ($150 for version 4), is smoother and more versatile. Fortunately, help is on the way: workflow software of the sort used by professional photographers is now filtering out to the masses in the form of a US $100 program, Corel AfterShot Pro.
