Corel ‘AfterShot Pro’ Brings Lightroom Competitor to Linux

By , Published January 11, 2012

Corel AfterShot Pro in Linux

Corel’s newly-launched AfterShot Pro brings Lightroom competitor to Linux

The multi-platform application is based upon technology from Bibble Labs whom Corel acquired in early January.

AfterShot Pro, which is largely a rebadged version of the latest releas of Bibble Pro, is similar in function to other well-known photography applications such as Aperture and Adobe’s Lightroom. It boasts advanced non-destructive editing, a ‘complete RAW workflow’,  ’flexible photo management’, and comprehensive metadata and batch-processing tools.

Corel also say that the application fully optimised for multiple-core CPUs.

A full version of AfterShot will set you back $99/£79, but a fully-functional 30-day trial version can be downloaded from apps.corel.com as 32bit and 64bit .Deb packages.

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  • Anonymous

    Competition is good. Hopefully this application gains traction and sends a message to Adobe finally convincing them to give us Adobe suite :)

    • Anonymous

      At the least, they’ll consider bringing Lightroom to Linux/Ubuntu.

  • http://twitter.com/BlackBytesOrg Fabio Bier

    Awesome as this news is I’d still like to see other, more professional graphics software make a switch to Linux. Corel Paint Shop Pro maybe (since Adobe totally ignores Linux)?

    • Anonymous

      Adobe doesn’t totally ignore Linux. They’ve made some free (as in beer) software available for Linux distros and they’re very active when it comes to the Android platform (which is Linux, after all). They’ve already released Photoshop Touch for Android.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

        Anroid can’t be called Linux, it’s just based on Linux kernel, but that’s it…

        • Matt Biddle

          ???

          “The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel…”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

          “Android is a Linux based operating system for mobile devices…” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

        • meolic

          Thanks, thanks , thanks! To many people does not know that in every GNU/linux (Ubuntu etc.) the most important part is GNU and not Linux. Thus, you are right: Android is not GNU/Linux.

  • http://twitter.com/awaltzforvenus Scott Starr

    This is AWESOME. One of the biggest things that’s slowed Linux adoption across the board has been the lack of user-friendly, professional grade (or at least ‘prosumer’ grade) tools. If more companies can get on board with this sort of thing, we’ll see even faster growth than we’re seeing in even the last year.

    It’s an exciting time to be an Ubuntu user…and a Linux user in general. :)

    • http://twitter.com/Zta77 Stephan Henningsen

      Like mentioned earlier, there’s still Darktable.

      • lhohi school

        i have been using darktable for sometime…since last june……! it is a great application but i find it to be very weak in the following areas…..i have sent so many e-mails to the mailing list….still not much change….!

        —– not proper before and after tool. the snap shot tool just doesnt cut it!
        —– not very effective when enhancing details like sharpness and noise reduction!
        —– thumbnail reloading is so annoying and so slow…in lightroom, aperture, bible ( ones that i have used) it is almost instant…with darktable  generating 50 thumbnails takes more than 3 to 4 minutes on my system…!
        —– it consumes too much memory….!!
        —– it lacks the performance…! they should really improve performance rather than features…! professionals need rock solid performance and features ( feature wise great, but it lacks performance)

        ——! Darktable still have a lot to do…..!!

        Im Using Darktable & Bibble ( i downloaded a trial of bibble just to test it and buy it after a full evaluation) i think i need to download this one and try before…doing it…well basically it is the same thing…but might be different…i have read that it supports DNG files…something that bibble doesnt!

        • Joshua Muzyka

          If you sent emails in and they were similar to those comments I could understand why you haven’t experienced much improvement. Those comments are vague and rely on your personal opinion and system variables moreso than facts.

          “Not proper before and after tool” -> By “not proper” what do you mean? What would you look for in a “proper” tool. Maybe to you it’s not “proper” but to somebody else it is.

          “Not very effective when enhancing sharpness, etc” -> By “not very effective” how do you mean? What would you term as “effective”? To see more “effective” sharpness what details are you looking for? What was the quality of your original image to begin with. Perhaps it was “effective” but not to your liking or the original dpi of your image wasn’t high enough as compared to their test images.

          “Consumes too much memory” -> In your definition what is “too much”? Do you have a comparison to make? Do you have other processes running which effects your memory usage? To some Chromium uses less system memory than Firefox, when in fact it’s about equal… only Chromium handles the memory different. Is it the “amount” of memory which is the problem or is it the way it is handled?

          “Lacks performance” -> In what ways? Perhaps your computer is slow, has dependence issues, or the OS is hung up. What are your spec details? If performance is great on my machine and slow on yours perhaps it’s because I have a newer, more up to date PC than you do. If darkroom was developed to run smoothly on a Dual-Core processor with 4GBs of RAM, it won’t run so well on a Pentium4 with 2 GBs of RAM. In fact, not even so well as a Dual-Core with 2GBs of RAM. That’s why programmers release “Minimum System Requirements” and “Preferred System Requirements”.

          There are many variables programmers and designers need to look into to improve a software and unless your a donator or programmer we don’t have the “right” to be demanding of open-source programmers who are essentially doing the world a free service.  If you would like to contribute make sure your comments to the programmers provide constructive insight and are not merely “complaints”.

          • http://twitter.com/zzecool zzecool

            Chill out dude , the other guy above didnt came here to report the bugs or problem in detail  he just said he opinion with some of his facts.

            By Today Adobe Suite IS a standard  and unbeatable when come to Design as Cisco  is on networks. 

            Everyone is trying to imitate the adobe suite , so dont start to act like those fans that say : JUST TELL WHAT IS THERE THAT GIMP CANT DO THAT PHOTOSHOP DOES ……..  

            If you ever tried any program from adobe suite for a long time to learn and get used to it then everything else  is compared with this as a standard  ….. and they are unbeatable. 

            Sure there are great artists that using opensource but that doesn’t change anything about the facts.

            Linux need 2 things imo  : Bring Adobe suite  and Games to linux   and kiss windows bye bye ……..      ( Everything else will come as a result )

          • Anonymous

             I thought from his comments it was obvious he was comparing Darktable with other similar products and as such the comparisons are valid. Absolute values which you seem to be demanding are not for a comments section of a blog. Ad hominem attacks on someone that is expressing an opinion helps no one, he was not raising a bug report, he was expressing an opinion on a blog .
            I like darktable personally but agree with nearly every single one of his points. It has great features but lacks performance in comparison to other similar applications.

          • Anonymous

            Dude, most of the points you are commenting on are perfectly valid. You have to be an actual darktable user to understand that.

      • Steve Göhre

        There is, and I like it. BUT: Loading more then 10 images in darktable makes it unusable. I click on a picture and have to wait at least 10s until it’s loaded. With 50+ pictures, that alone is more than 8 minutes waiting, not to mention the editing process (look which pic is the best), etc.

        In short: darktable is unusable. What is needs is performance, performance, performance!!!
        Until then, I’m happy to see bibble pro in the corel version for half the price (bibble pro was ~$200, the lite version was ~$100)

        • Anonymous

          Out of curiousity, what are the hardware specs?

  • Hein Hanssen

    going to give it a spin. WOW great news! Even if it costs some bucks.

    • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

      Actually is cheaper the the previous version

  • Jonas Zierer

    Hi everybody,
    Corel just bought bibble labs, which offers Photo management since years! Aftershot is as far as i can see the same as bibble5.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

      We’ve reviewed Bibble Pro before; my original draft of this post called AfterShot a ‘rebadged Bibble Pro’ – but having not used Bibble for a long time I wasn’t too sure how certain that statement was.

    • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

      It has multiple distinctions, the implementation of the processing pipeline has changed, but the fundamentals are the same.

      Extra user-friendlyness, polish and refined GUI was needed. It also is less resource hungry on my machine. Bibble Pro 5.2.2 suffered from a severe memory leak on my machine.

      The good thing about this is that Bibble Pro was too small to make a difference. They didn’t have dedicated UX-people, marketing people, distribution channels, etc etc. Now they do. They also kept their offices and promise that Linux support will stay. 

  • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

    I’ve been using Bibble Pro for years now and it is my first tool that comes into play when dealing with RAW images and image processing work flow.  Bibble Pro had its problems, but it was by far the best tool that actually worked on Linux. It was cheap (around $99) and it had very unrestrictive licensing, one license covered all three platforms.

    So far Aftershot Pro looks like a repainted version of Bibble Pro 5.2.3 with couple of plugins missing. UI does have a nicer and slicker look. They do want 70 EUR  for an upgrade, which is a bit high.

    I hope that Aftershot don’t become one of the many Corel failures. :/

    • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

      No, an upgrade is 15€

      • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

         It says 69.99 on Corel’s product page. If you have any other links, please provide. :)

        • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

          Go to the General Questions forum on support.bibblelabs.com, they have all the info. I upgraded for 15 euros too. 

          • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

            Even if you purchased Bibble Pro in the last 100 days (I thought), the upgrade is completely free, although they have to wait a couple of days for the e-mails with the link.

          • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

             I received no such email… *sadface* I’ll go and bug them. :)

            However I really dislike the new importing/downloading features. It produces some unwanted results and strange folders.

        • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

          True, but Bibble owners received the link with the coupon via email. Try to contact Bibble/Corel

          I upgraded mine today.

        • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

          …Try to also to find more info here: http://support.bibblelabs.com

    • http://profiles.google.com/damonlynch Damon Lynch

       The imaging pipeline is new. The plugins will return but you need to give the developers time to adapt to the new plugin SDK.

    • Patrick Schlageter

      Hi,
      as a Bibble 5 user, you just pay 15 Euros for Aftershot Pro:
      http://aftershotpro.com/preferred_pricing.html

      pAt

    • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

      Plugins AS now available here:

      http://www.aftershotpro.com/plugins/

  • http://twitter.com/designbybeck Beck

    Of course there is the Open Source Darktable! That also does RAW non-destructive editing – http://darktable.org

    Join the project at Freenode IRC #darktable

    • Juan Marti

      Sweet!  Nice thanks you Dude!  God bless you for the knowledge you have share!!

      • http://twitter.com/Sephiroth_VII NCLI

        What does God have to do with it O.o

        • Anonymous

          He’s done with just 1 tick of your brain stem….

        • Anonymous

          Well I’d rather be blessed than damned ;P

        • Anonymous

          Hello, NCLI. Juan Marti is a Spanish name. I guess Juan is from Spain or from a Latin American country. In these countries there’s a strong Christian heritage, and this has influenced our language, too. We have many sayings that have words like “God” in them. Juan Marti is just using a polite expression to say “thanks”. He’s not trying to start a debate about religion. Regards.

        • Anonymous

          EVERYTHING haha ;)

          It’s a turn of phrase, not to be taken literally

        • Cliff Wells

          He didn’t say “thank God”, he said “God bless”.  God had to do with the blessing part.

          But nice knee-jerk reaction.

    • http://profiles.google.com/mateus.m.luna Mateus Machado Luna

      Darktable is one of the best softwares I use. It still have some bugs, but every new release it gets better. To me, the interface it’s the best of all the RAW editors that I know, not only on desing but on usability. Great alternative for the professional photographers..

    • Jud Johnson

      As a semi-pro photographer, I have but one thing to say about this…

      Noise Ninja!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  On Linux, natively!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      That’s all.

      • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

        Is Noise Ninja in Darktable? Or did you reply on the wrong comment?

        • Jud Johnson

          No, it’s not.  That’s why I expressed my opinion.  The article was about Aftershot Pro, not Darktable.

          • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

            Yes, but you replied on a comment about darktable, which caused my confusion

          • Anonymous

            He didn’t :)

          • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

            Hmmmm, says here, “in reply to Beck”, however, it’s obviously a stupid misunderstanding, srr ’bout that

      • Patrick Schlageter

        That is not new Jud Johnson. Bibble 5, which is the base of Aftershot Pro, had already Noise Ninja for Linux since some years ;)
        Darktable is a good Open Source Raw Converter, but no substitute for the professional After Shot Pro yet.
        pAt

  • Anonymous

    If we get more of these professional tools, I surely will convert thousands to Ubuntu/Linux, the tough part is always with editing tools(photo, video, audio.. etc)

  • http://twitter.com/gwelr Gregoire Welraeds

    Anyone actively using darktable here?

    • João Horta

       me!! darktable for edit/convert and Gimp for resizes. You can see results here: http://www.pbase.com/kitgard/sigma_1770

      • http://twitter.com/designbybeck Beck

        Great work João.

        • Anonymous

          @twitter-239159449:disqus You seem quite passionate about Darktable. I had a look at the website and would be willing to give it a fair shot. Do you know if it allows for the import of existing Adobe Lightroom Catalogs?
          (Not meaning to answer my own question but I would guess not since the edit histories are probably not cross platform compatible.)

          The only Windows box I have left in my house is the one the is running AutoCAD and Lightroom. If there were viable open-source alternatives I could get rid of it…and even go through the hassle of recreating the Catalogs for about 20,000 pictures.

          • Anonymous

            For a Linux alternative to AutoCAD, checkout DraftSight: http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/overview/

          • Anonymous

            +1

            DraftSight is at the same level as AutoCAD. It’s free “as in beer” because its developer is betting on getting you to move to 3D CAD and adopt SolidWorks, its main product. I’m a SolidWorks user myself but when I have to send some design to a shop that will take only AutoCAD files, I double check them with DraftSight.

          • Anonymous

            If you can’t find an open source linux CAD alternative there is a commercial one:
            http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/bricscad/index.jsp

        • João Horta

          thks Beck. I like very much of your work also. Here are more of my on a forum of photograpgy: http://www.fotoportal.co.pt/forum/index.php/topic,8151.0.html

    • Anonymous

      I do. Maybe not as actively recently as I’d like, but for RAW photos it’s the best program on Linux.

    • Dietmar Wolf

      Yes. It is a great piece of software and very frequently updated /actively developed. I wonder why the author didnt mention it and I wonder more that we read about this Corel copycat and not about darktable.

      • Anonymous

        How is this a copycat?
        This is the successor to bibble which has been around for _years_.

        Just cause two pieces of software are in the same category, it doesn’t equate to copying.

        • Cliff Wells

          Apple invented graphics.

    • http://profiles.google.com/ezr.ladislav Ladislav Ezr

      I use it for all my photo works at school.

    • http://twitter.com/designbybeck Beck

      I’ve been using it professionally for a number of months. I’m using master builds so it is very beta, but it does what I need it to do. And I love doing all my photography and editing with 100% free and Open Source Software.

      Here are some of my Darktable works: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.206454294846.130469.500284846&type=3&l=be12e6b91e

      at least the first 20-30 were done in Darktable.

      • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

         I tried it, but I had trouble adapting the unconventional interface. And when working with hundreds of pictures it really become sluggish and unresponsive.

        • Anonymous

          Perhaps you don’t have a GPU that supports OpenCL.

          Either way, the most unstable branch is much speedier due to better caching. It’s just rather unstable right now.

          • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

            I have AMD HD6850 with fglrx drivers, so I guess I should be ok.

    • Paul d’Aoust

      Yup, quite often. There are some very cool plugins, like the equaliser (takes all of the details in the photo and performs frequency-domain operations on it; I know that isn’t very clear, but you just have to try it out to see what it can do), graduated neutral density, colour mixer, and high-pass filter. It allows you to do some pretty nifty and useful stuff, and it’s relatively user-friendly for those who are familiar with RAW developers. The only thing I miss is RGB curves.

  • Rishi Sharma

    Excellent! The concept of open source is great, but having the option of proprietary paid software (if people prefer to use them over their open source alternatives) is icing on the cake. This is probably one of the hindrance towards adoption of Linux and I hope more options like this will woo many more users.

  • Oliver Smith

    Great news – it would be fantastic if it made it to the Ubuntu Software Centre.

  • http://twitter.com/mordalo Mordalo

    I use Darktable, and I think it’s an excellent piece of software.  Having never used Bibble, I can’t compare the two, but I will say, now that Corel has it’s hands on it, it will never be as good as it was.

    In my Windows days, Paint Shop Pro was my go-to program, until Corel bought it off of JASC.  They took one of the best programs and turned it to crap.

    • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

      ADP is a more polished Bibble but with the same features

    • http://profiles.google.com/damonlynch Damon Lynch

      Aftershot Pro is developed by the exact same developers as the ones who developed Bibble Pro – same office, same people. What the team have access to now is more resources, including Q&A. It will get better, not worse

  • Toby Mole

    Brilliant stuff, great to see the leaps that are happening in the Ubuntu area! Who needs Adobe!?!

    • Jason Sauders

      Granted, I’m not a graphic designer, but I work in education and have *never* found the need for Adobe products. I’m not hating on Adobe, just stating black and white truth from my own experiences.

      • http://twitter.com/designbybeck Beck

        Jason, I’ve been trying to push more and more Open Source in Education in Texas. Where are you from?

        • Anonymous

          Beck, I am at U of Hawaii… and tonight at 4:30PM is the first class meeting of my new (pilot) graduate course: F/OSS in Education.  It is aimed at providing up-and-coming educators with the knowledge to integrate F/OSS into schools and classrooms!

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000678236470 Hans Heintze

        The reall thing that adobe brings to the table is time-saving automation. other than that it’s not far ahead of paintshop pro or even the GIMP.

        • Bash Quandry

          I’m sorry, I’ve been in graphic design and photo editing for almost 15 years and been using GIMP for 2 or 3 years since I abandoned MS (as much as I can). GIMP is a great tool but it is so far behind Adobe in every aspect there is no comparison. At present it doesn’t even have pressure support for tablets. 

          • Anonymous

            I’m fairly sure gimp does have preasure support. Though a quick google makes it sound like it can be a pain to get it set up.

          • Bash Quandry

            It used to and I suspect it will again but its these things that prevent GIMP and Linux in general from being adopted.

          • Anonymous

            I would have to disagree with you about tablet pressure, tablet’s are supported on the Mac, Windows, and various Linux versions of Gimp. And it’s not a pain to set up, you just need change the tablet settings inside of Gimp.

          • Anonymous

            Agreed it’s all the little things that matter.

          • Anonymous

            Odd I’ve been using various native software for editing images, including GIMP and it does support tablet pressure, works very well in fact, and as of Oneiric I don’t even need a driver, my tablet works with pressure straight from the start.

            I’ll admit I have to tweak the settings in GIMP a little, but it’s not difficult.

          • Anonymous

            Oh, it *might* work for some people. But, quoting one of GTK+ developers, “it’s broken beyond repair”.

          • Anonymous

            Dude, pressure sensitivity is there since 1998 or so. The fact that it’s broken in the toolkit (not GIMP) for last year is a whole different matter.

  • Dave Jones

    I use darktable almost daily – fantastic software. The devs are helpful and quick to respond should a user have an issue.  They rock. That is my scientific opinion :D

  • Anonymous

    Is this any better than Digikam?

    • Anonymous

      anything is better than digikam …

      • http://www.twm-kd.com/ BigWhale

        DigiKam isn’t really in the same area. DigiKam is mostly cataloging app. I used it a lot before I switched to RAW images.

        And for cataloging digikam was quite good.

  • Piotr Cichociński

    There are another two open source and cross-platform RAW processors: RawTherapee and Photivo. In my opinion they are better than Darktable and even ex-Bibble Pro. And both support DNG.

    • Anonymous

      RawTherapee is by far my favorite Linux RAW converter. I’ve never been able to warm up to Darktable; the UI is just too unconventional for my taste.

  • Anonymous

    It’d be good to see this in the software centre

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TOAP2YXEUL6HBNSCRICYVVMKSY Teg

    I use the Darktable PPA but do most of you know there is another one that has extras not in the main: https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/darktable-release-plus

  • http://twitter.com/mlux82 marian lux

    Can anyone write an e-mail to corel with the wish to add AfterShot Pro to USC? I didn’t find any e-mail-adress on their homepage. Or can anyone contact someone from canonical with influence for contacting someone from corel (eg, to make an offer).

    • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

      I wouldn’t get your hopes up, because Corel has a very defined way in distributing their software, and I don’t think they will change that for only one product in their software line

  • http://www.facebook.com/elslunko Edward De La Torre

    Thanks for the report. As many mentioned Darktable is another alternative (I keep it installed on my box). Though I wish ASP had some of the plugins that DT has, ASP (formerly B5) is just so fast. Working through large sets of photos (especially events), making changes, then batch updates to those changes is just so easy in B5.

    At the moment if I didn’t shoot high volumes I would probably use DT. Bibble 5 has been my tool of choice since beta and has grown quite a bit since then. I’ve already bought ASP and it feels as solid as the 5.2.3 release of Bibble 5. It’s workflow is just as fast if not faster than leading raw workflow software (though it’s missing some bells and whistles).

    • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

      Well, plugin developers are updating their plugins at the moment and it won’t be long until they are all in AfterShot again, and maybe  even better or more?

  • http://about.me/joaoalmeida t3mujin

    Just a reminder to some comments here and the misleading post tittle: this competitor of Lightroom has always been on Linux (as Bibble Pro), it just got re-branded and a bit re-polished.

    Besides the very neat, and already mentioned, Darktable another neat alternative is Rawtherapee.

  • http://rubenverhack.be/ Ruben Verhack

    I was a faithful user of Bibble Pro, and really really am amazed over the stability and performance increasement they introduced over the years.

    Now I’m using AfterShot (bought it), it’s great, it has much much more friendly user interface (it doesn’t seem that way at first, but it has been polished a lot in many different ways). It’s also less confusing too use. And is up in the same level as Lightroom (with even more editing functionality, although a little less user-friendly). But it’s the ONLY serious option on Linux. And yes, I’ve used almost all linux-based lightroom-alternatives, this one just rocks and for a very reasonable price, and it has a flexible license.

    On a side note, I thought that Corel bought Bibble Pro during the summer, I thought I read in their press release. The news was a secret until this week though.

  • Anonymous

    It’s always nice to see paid software coming to Linux.

  • http://profiles.google.com/damonlynch Damon Lynch

     I think it’s certain Linux support will stay. I have no idea what the sales breakdown are by platform, but I very much suspect the percentage of Linux is excellent. Some of it’s most expert users and testers primarily use it on Linux.

  • Fidel Viegas

    This is really great news. I don’t mind paying for software as long as it meets my needs. I have used Bibble Pro in the past and I actually liked it. With Corel’s rebrand I think I may give it a try. Nice work Corel. When are you going to give us other software as well? Is there any chance you will give us Corel Draw?

  • Анатолий Романович Шаповалов

    Darktable is much better then Corel AfterShot Pro. Corel is totally unusefull  after Lightroom and even Darktable. Single window GUI have too much elements. No photo library.

  • http://profiles.google.com/neptune1235 Robert Kovacs

    This is great news for the Linux community. Especially professional photographers who need a professional application like Lightroom that allows them to run Linux. Darktable is good, but the has very limited resources. Corel with Aftershot will have a much larger developer base and be able to provide professional support that Darktable won’t be able to provide. Who knows, if this is successful than maybe Paintshop Photo Pro may be ported in the future. You never know.

  • http://twitter.com/howythegeek Howy

    Why don’t they put it up on Ubuntu Software Center… -.-

    And… Isn’t AfterShot a bit ripoff of… I don’t know… something that starts with After and ends with Effects?

  • valerio pasini

    looking for the complete suite on linux!

  • Anonymous

    No thanks, I’m happy with darktable. It’s easy to use but the channel mixer user interface could do some change by displaying all channel in one view.

    I also use rawtherapee and photivo occasionally.

    • Anonymous

      “but the channel mixer user interface could do some change by displaying all channel in one view.”

      That would considerably blow up its UI, even though I can see your point.

      • Anonymous

        I know it would hurt the vertical space by bringing the whole rgb in one panel of channel mixer. but in my opinion, it’s better than having to cycling and into each channel.

  • Oliver Kitzing

    There is ONE important difference between AfterShot/Bibble and darktable/rawtherapee and the like feature-wise:

    AfterShot allows for editing of several layers, each one with a totally different batch of processing parameters (even Lightroom cannot do this.. even not the new upcoming LR4 version), and it allows simple editing funtions like cloning and healing of regions… something, that not a single opensource RAW processing software can do.

    This is just one reason why some people always liked Bibble (now AfterShot) especially for Linux…

    Let’s hope that Corel doesn’t mess it up.

    • Anonymous

      darktable has clone tool since 0.9 released last July. it’s called spot removal.

    • Anonymous

      dude, not everyone need layers. this is raw processing software we’re talking. Layers are indeed sweet addition, but I believe most people rarely use it. The other half send the jpegs to photoshop or gimp for further processing.

  • Essay Tew Phaun

    I’ll keep my iPhoto and Aperture and like it.

  • Anonymous

    After I installed the deb file and tried to run the program, I get this error:

    Install Path:           /opt/AfterShotProLD_PATH:                /opt/AfterShotPro/lib:XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS: 1Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “globalmenu-plugin”(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type ‘ibus’ failed(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type ‘ibus’ failed(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type ‘ibus’ failed51627.818: I have SSE251627.819: KDE4 plugin path removed from the application’s library path. 51627.820: Bibble program arguments (“./AfterShotPro”, “%F”) 51627.820: Unsupported file  ”/opt/AfterShotPro/bin/%F” 51627.821: Loaded  ”/opt/AfterShotPro/supportfiles/locale/aftershot_en.qm” 51627.821: first run – setting up folders /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so(:27803): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon ‘gtk-ok’ for stock: Kan ikke laste modul for innlesing av bilder: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64(:27803): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed(:27803): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_default_render_icon: assertion `base_pixbuf != NULL’ failed(:27803): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_style_render_icon: assertion `pixbuf != NULL’ failed(:27803): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed(:27803): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)’ failed(:27803): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_

    Btw I have pinguy os 11.04 installed.

 
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