After Shot Pro 3 - Images disappear

[pefunk]

and so the slide to mediocrity continues.

This slide started in 2007 with the anouncement of Bibble 5 and the effective standstill of the further development of Bibble 4. It brought with it the alienation of one of the most prominent developer of plug-ins Seam M. Pucket. After a lot of pressure from the user base Bibble 5 was forced out in December 2009 with more bugs than features, without the plug-ins people depended on. I was a faithful follower at that time, even got the upgrade to Bibble 5 and later to ASP 1. I think the people at Bibble saw the desaster long before the sell out to Corel: one after the other jumped ship, the captain first.

For at least seven years we have seen a more or less unsuccessful bug-chase, whereas competitors invested in the further improvement of their software and new features. When you see what DxO, C1, even ACDsee 9 Ultimate, not to speak of RawTherapee (those are only the Raw processors that I have experience with) have to offer, it brings tears to my eyes as a former BIbble fanboy.

In retrospect the Bibble 5 development was a cul-de-sac and I don't think Corel is to blame. They bought a dead horse and are now trying to sell it for what they can get as long as they can get it.

[larschristian]

Doesn't work well with cr2 files. I've been waiting for an update. At first I thought this was going to get fixed soon, as it is a MAJOR flaw. Seriously. A raw editor not handling cr2 files. I got the same problem on my laptop with win7 as my linux desktop, so it's not an OS issue. If my desktop had been a win machine I'd turned to lightroom by now..... Been an Bibble/Aftershot user since Bibble4, so it's a bit sad.

[sswilson]

Just wanted to quickly log in to thank folks for keeping this issue active.

I've been running Aftershot 2 from a PSP bundle and was all ready to buy the upgrade to AS Pro 3 in order to get access to automatic lens profile recognition (The lack of which in AS2 has kept me pretty much on LR 5.1 in spite of finding AS more intuitive to use), but instead installed the trial first in order to verify if the new software would indeed auto populate the lens profile(s) from my images' meta data.

The lens profiles do indeed auto populate, but as you folks have already discovered, this software doesn't play nice with CR2 files.

Uninstalled within 20 minutes of original install after seeing this thread. Bad enough it launched like this, unforgivable that we're 4+ months after release and the issue still isn't resolved.

How exactly did this software survive the online review process? Surely some of the websites who reviewed it must have Canon hardware.

[larschristian]

Aftershot 3.1 update released today. Crossing my fingers!
http://www.aftershotpro.com/en/support/updates/

" Notable fixes include improved stability and viewing for Canon EOS and Fujifilm files, a fix for the pink hue issue, and key fixes for Linux users."

edit: After a quick stresstest I've not come across no image bug or crash when view jpg files. Looks good so far. Crossing fingers.....

[sswilson]

Aftershot 3.1 update released today. Crossing my fingers!
http://www.aftershotpro.com/en/support/updates/

" Notable fixes include improved stability and viewing for Canon EOS and Fujifilm files, a fix for the pink hue issue, and key fixes for Linux users."

edit: After a quick stresstest I've not come across no image bug or crash when view jpg files. Looks good so far. Crossing fingers.....

Yeah I just reloaded the trial and it doesn't appear to be throwing out the same error when using CR2 files. The question is... did they resolve the issue or did they just default to the "work around" they had posted previously?

Unfortunately it doesn't appear like the lens profile is applying any kind of barrel distortion adjustment so this whole thing might be moot WRT what I'm looking for.

[larschristian]

When I need distortion adjustment I usaually use http://www.aftershotpro.com/en/plugins/zperspector/ . Haven't tried the plugin in a while, but found it better than lens distortion correction. (Or in addition to.)

[Dobly]

Was back in May 2016 I started this thread. I had given up to ASP3 and was getting work done on ASP2.

Just the other day early Oct I noticed the update. Eagerly I installed it and tried it out.

1. I rated images at break neck speed. My workflow starts by rating images either 5 or 1. Then I filter to show just the images rated 5. In this test ASP3 worked as it should. Not one 'Image Unavailable' error. It was fast. Just what I expect. This issue thus far seem to be fixed.


2. I selected 155 images and dragged them to the JPEG Proof link. 155 jpegs were created. Before I would get some or none images exported. This issue seems to be fixed after this update too..

3. Next I right clicked on an image and selected the Edit with After Shot HDR / Single Raw photo.




Sigh. Needless to say, the image I tried to load is correctly exposed.

[Charlie77]

AfterShot HDR is unusable. AfterShot HDR previews and processes all my Nikon D7100 .NEF files as black (or very very dark). These same exact files produce very nice photos with PSPX8 (32 & 64 bit) HDR which seems to be the same program as the AfterShot HDR. Your last update did not fix this problem. I like AfterShot and use it as my main raw photo processor. It is my hope you will fix this problem as will as the few other problems in AfterShot Pro 3 64bit

I have turned in a ticket on this to Corel and have given feedback about this. I have not heard back from Corel other than acknowledging my ticket.

Update: I heard back from Corel support. This is a known problem with ASP3 for a couple of months now and Corel is working on a patch or update. In the meantime I will use PSPx8 HDR which work just fine with my D7100 .NEF files.
ASP3 is still very valuable to me as my main .nef processing program.

AfterShot Pro 3 vers.: 3.1.0.181
Platform: Windows 7 Home Premium