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Life after Photoshop software reviews

Choosing the right software isn't easy and you often have to try quite a few different applications to find the ones that suit you. We're all looking for different things, and quite often a single piece of software won't do everything that we need.

So these reviews are designed not just to see whether the software out there is any good or not, but to explain exactly what it does and how it might fit into your workflow.

  • Always download the trial version if there is one. My best guess at what photographers need is not necessarily right for you.
  • This is an archive of all Life after Photoshop review content. There is also a curated guide to the best photo editing software.

Adobe Lightroom review 2023

December 7, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom

Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom is Adobe’s bold vision of a cloud-based photo organizing and editing tool where all your images can be organised, edited and viewed anywhere on any device. For mobile users and content creators it’s a clever and effective proposition, but for regular photographers, while its editing tools now include AI masking, A lens Blur and the rest of Adobe’s latest Lightroom features, its restrictions, the closed nature of its editing ecosystem and its cost remain a major barrier.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Asset management, Catalog, Cataloguing software, Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), DAM (Digital Asset Management), Lightroom (Adobe), Non-destructive editing, Photography Plan (Adobe), RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe), Smart album/collection, Subject recognition

Adobe Lightroom Classic review 2023

December 4, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Verdict: 4.5 stars Lightroom Classic is the traditional, desktop-based version of Lightroom. Its editing tools are powerful and versatile, aided by new and steadily improving AI masking tools. Lightroom Classic continues to be the professional cataloguing and editing tool by which all others are judged, though it’s not always the best.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, Cataloguing software, Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Noise reduction, Non-destructive editing, Photography Plan (Adobe), RAW processing, Subject recognition, Subscription software

Capture One Pro review (Dec 23)

November 30, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Capture One Pro

Verdict: 4.6 stars Capture One Pro is not cheap. It’s not designed for beginners, and it doesn’t have Adobe’s cloud-based ecosystem – yet. But it’s excellent for tethered shooting, it offers both session-based and catalog-based workflows and its editing tools and output are superb.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: AI mask, Capture One, Session (Capture One)

DxO Nik Collection 6 review

November 28, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Nik Collection 6

Verdict: 4.8 stars Nik Collection 6 is the latest version of one of the photographic world’s best-known and best-loved plug-in suites. The updates in this version are modest but useful, and that’s not really a criticism because it’s hard to see how the Nik Collection could be made much better.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, ReviewsTagged With: Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Color Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Dfine (Nik Collection), DxO, HDR Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Nik Collection (DxO), Perspective Efex (Nik Collection), Sharpener Pro (Nik Collection), Silver Efex Pro, Viveza (Nik Collection)

ON1 Photo RAW 2024 review

November 23, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

ON1 Photo RAW 2024

Verdict: 4.5 stars If you want a single, all-in-one, do-it-all photo organizer, editor and effects tool, look no further. ON1 Photo RAW 2024 is in a class of its own. Other programs might give you better cataloging tools, better raw processing or a wider range of effects, but never in one place like ON1 Photo RAW does.

Filed Under: Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Brilliance AI, Cataloguing software, Effect, Layers, ON1 Photo RAW, Presets

Silver Efex Pro 3 review (Nik Collection 6)

May 30, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 5 stars Silver Efex Pro 3 is still the best black and white plug-in there is. It creates rich, dense black and white images that echo classic analog films and darkroom techniques in the digital age.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, ReviewsTagged With: Analog, Black and white, Silver Efex Pro

DxO PureRAW 3 review

March 15, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Rating: 4.5 stars PureRAW 3 only does one job, but it does it extremely well. It takes your RAW files and applies DxO’s own lens corrections and, optionally, its DeepPRIME noise reduction process to produce images which are sharper, smoother and straighter. It can make average cameras and lenses look twice as good and extends your camera’s usable ISO range by up to 2.5 stops. These aren’t empty claims – this is what it does.

Filed Under: Featured, PureRAW, ReviewsTagged With: DeepPRIME (DxO), DxO, Lens corrections, Noise reduction, PhotoLab (DxO), PureRAW

Capture One 23 review

December 3, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.8 stars Capture One 23 is a professional Lightroom rival that offers a step up in both image quality and editing tools, and supports a greater variety of professional workflows. The RAW processing is excellent, the editing tools are powerful and the new Cull view, layered Styles and improved Variant handling alone make the upgrade look worth it. Capture One is not cheap, but it’s designed for professional, quality-orientated workflows.

Filed Under: Best software, Capture One, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Adjustment layer, Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, Culling, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Masks, RAW processing, Session (Capture One), Style (Capture One), Tethered shooting, Variant (Capture One)

ON1 Photo RAW 2023 review

December 1, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars ON1 Photo RAW 2023 is probably the closest thing there is to a photo editor that does absolutely everything. This version adds AI subject recognition and masking features. ON1 Photo RAW’s scope and ambitions are impressive, though the AI doesn’t always work perfectly and ON1 Photo RAW 2023 can sometimes feel sluggish.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ON1 Photo RAW, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Browser (photos), Cataloguing software, Noise reduction, Non-destructive editing, NoNoise AI, ON1 Photo RAW, Portrait enhancement, RAW processing, Subject recognition, Tack Sharp AI

Affinity Photo 2 review

November 29, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4.5 stars Affinity Photo 2 is not a huge leap forward from version 1 for photographers, but more a major refresh and rebranding for Affinity. It remains an extremely powerful professional Photoshop rival at an exceptionally low price. Its tone mapping is superb, its RAW processing can now be applied non-destructively and its central Photo personal is hugely powerful.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Affinity Photo, Develop (RAW files), Focus stacking, HDR, Layers, Panoramas, Tone mapping

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