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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.

DxO FilmPack 6 review

February 13, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4 stars: DxO FilmPack 6 is a powerful film simulation tool, but its main strength – technical accuracy – is offset by its lack of local adjustment tools.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, PhotoLab, Reviews

Exposure X7 review

February 11, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.5 stars Exposure X7 is a great all-in-one program for cataloguing your images, enhancing and retouching them and adding a huge range of evocative analog film effects

Filed Under: Best software, Exposure X, Featured, ReviewsTagged With: Analog, Cataloguing software, Non-destructive editing, RAW processing, Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Lightroom vs Lightroom Classic: same name, very different workflow

September 15, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

The name is the same, but despite the apparent similarities, these are two very different programs. So what are the key differences between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, and how do you choose which one to use?

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), External editor, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Photography Plan (Adobe), Plug-ins, Sensei (Adobe), Smart album/collection, Versions (Lightroom), Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Viveza 3 review

August 21, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 3.8 stars Viveza is a great tool for making fast and effective adjustments to colour images, but even with the improvements in version 3 it still feels less useful than the other Nik plug-ins.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews

Silver Efex Pro 3 review

August 21, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.5 stars For fans of black and white photography, Silver Efex Pro is just superb. Version 3 improves the Control Point masking, but moves the sliders to the sidebar, which isn’t necessarily an improvement.

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

Skylum Luminar AI review

August 18, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 3.5 stars Luminar AI has some spectacular AI effects, but it also has performance issues and a disappointing template AI workflow that’s less than inspiring.

Filed Under: Featured, Luminar, Reviews

Lutify.me review

August 12, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 5 stars Lutify.me is a subscription-based LUTs package for both video and stills, which includes excellent downloadable LUTs and an online LUT previewer.

Filed Under: Featured, Lutify.me, ReviewsTagged With: LUTs

CameraBag Pro 2021 review

August 10, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4.6 stars CameraBag Pro is an effects tool with a wide range of great-looking preset effects and useful manual adjustments too. Best of all, it works with video as well as stills.

Filed Under: Best software, CameraBag Pro, Featured, Reviews

Pixelmator Pro 2.1.2 Coral review

August 7, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 4 stars: Pixelmator Pro is Mac only and has fairly lightweight photo editing features, but it’s very fast, unexpectedly clever, and blends in text, vector and paint tools to turn your photos into posters, illustrations and more.

Filed Under: Best software, Featured, Pixelmator, Reviews

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?

August 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Which is best for processing RAW files, DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom or Capture One? Here’s a set of eight image comparisons that aims to find out.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, PhotoLab, ReviewsTagged With: Artefact/artifact, Capture One, Cloud storage, DeepPRIME (DxO), Dynamic range, Highlight recovery, Lens corrections, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Local adjustments, Perspective correction, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing, Shadow recovery, Sharpening, White balance

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