Corel has recently expanded its digital photography portfolio with the introduction of Corel® AfterShot™ Pro. Corel says AfterShot Pro is based on technology from Corel’s acquisition of Bibble Labs and provides complete RAW workflow, flexible photo management and advanced, non-destructive editing.

“Today’s photographers, whether they’re professional or enthusiast, are coming from shoots with hundreds, if not thousands of photos,” said Chad Kinzelberg, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media at Corel. “They want to be able to bring in their photos and get right to work finding their best shots and making them better. With AfterShot Pro we are delivering a powerful RAW workflow solution to help photographers power through their photo workflow and get back to doing what they love – taking great pictures.”

Fully multithreaded and optimized for multi-core and multi-CPU computers, Corel AfterShot Pro delivers fast RAW processing and color-accurate images with regular support for an ever-increasing number of major camera manufacturers and models. AfterShot Pro offers workflow capabilities that enable you to work with photos virtually any way you want, such as quickly accessing images from existing file folders or memory cards or importing them into searchable catalogs.

Corel AfterShot Pro key features include:

• Multithreaded and optimized workflow: Corel AfterShot Pro is designed for speed and allows those with and without the latest hardware to process their images fast. AfterShot Pro is fully multithreaded and optimized for multi-core computers by taking advantage of every CPU at its disposal to maximize the speed of onscreen preview, adjustment and output generation.

• RAW tools: Corel AfterShot Pro is designed to help you make the most of the extra detail and data in your RAW images by offering fast RAW processing and incredibly color-accurate images.
• Flexible photo management: Create custom or even portable catalogues that can be moved to another computer, or if you already organize your photos in folders on your computer, you aren’t required to catalogue them at all. Work with photos wherever they are, whether they are in folders on your hard drive or on a memory card.
• Metadata tools: Browse and search your photos using the metadata features in Corel AfterShot Pro. Find your images with automatically imported EXIF data such as camera settings, lenses and dates. Add your own keywords, ratings, labels and tags or use industry-standard IPTC Metadata, such as captions and copyright. Tailor metadata sets to display only the information you want to see or use AfterShot Pro Presets to attach information to your photos for easy searching.
• Advanced, non-destructive editing: With the non-destructive editing tools in Corel AfterShot Pro, refine and enhance your photos without ever altering your original image. Apply intelligent automatic or manual adjustments — including complete exposure and tone control, color correction, white balance, noise reduction, curves and levels, lens correction and many more — knowing you can always revert to an earlier version of the image at any time.
• Selective editing: The Regions and Layers capabilities in Corel AfterShot Pro give you control over image adjustments by letting you apply them exactly where you want them.
• Easy photo-editing software integration: When you’re ready to get into deeper photo editing and advanced image manipulation, Corel AfterShot Pro lets you to bring your image into Corel PaintShop Pro, Adobe Photoshop or the image editor of your choice from directly within the application.
• Batch processing: Corel AfterShot Pro offers advanced and flexible batch processing tools that can be used to rename multiple files, apply adjustments to groups of similar files with the same settings, or convert and export files to one or more pre-defined image formats and sizes.
• Speed to output: When you’re ready to create image files to print, share online or access in other applications, Corel AfterShot Pro offers fast output generation. Plus, use Batch Output to quickly process images according to predefined output settings like JPEG and PDF, create contact sheets or standard print sizes, and more. It’s easy to modify Batch settings or create a custom Batch process that suits your workflow.

Corel AfterShot Pro is available in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese immediately as an electronic download (ESD) from www.corel.com. Box versions will be available from Corel’s global resellers later in January 2012. North American pricing is $99.99 (US and CDN). The upgrade version is available for $79.99 (US and CDN). To be eligible for the upgrade you must own a previous licensed version of: Bibble Pro or Lite 5, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 or higher, Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture.

To download a free fully-functional trial version or for more information about AfterShot Pro, visit www.corel.com/aftershotpro