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One obvious attraction of owning a digital camera is being able to transfer your snaps onto a computer.
Less obvious drawbacks are that it's often all too easy to lose track of them thereafter, all too difficult to print them as you'd like and well-nigh impossible to publish that showcase web page you always planned.
After Shot lets you capture images straight from your camera, arrange them in albums and then edit, reorganise, print and publish at will.
The capturing end of the equation is straightforward enough: you view thumbnails of images held on your camera in one window pane and drag and drop them from there to an existing or a new album.
You can have several albums open at once and the After Shot interface makes a pleasing change from muddling with multiple windows.
There are some genuinely useful editing tools included too. The one-click Quick Fix tool for fiddle-free tweaking produced mixed results, but the Stitch tool for linking overlapping images in a seamless panorama worked surprisingly well.
The usual range of rudimentary editing tools for cropping and rotating images, adjusting brightness, contrast and colour, removing red-eye and so on are all present and correct.
There are also some pretty powerful search tools with which to manage a complex image collection, which works best when you take the time to annotate your pictures with meaningful titles, descriptions and keywords.
The batch processing feature for simultaneously correcting multiple images is useful and a decent range of adjustable printing templates ensures pictures print as intended on pretty much any size of paper.
If you want really sophisticated image editing software, you should look elsewhere. However, with its wide range of tools and features After Shot excels as a dedicated file manager for digital images.
DETAILS
Price: £40
Contact: Digital Workshop 0870 120 2186
www.digitalworkshop.com
See also:
All Image Editing & Management
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