Jasc After Shot Premium Edition

After installing After Shot, you can decide whether to take the QuickTour or just dive right in and start working. We choose the latter, as the QuickTour requires the Shockwave player, which we didn't feel like downloading. Even without any introduction, we were quickly able to access our images with a single click on the camera icon. After Shot offers easy-to-use options for organizing your images, including photo-album-creation capabilities. You can also sort your images by name, date, and size.

When it comes to actually editing your images, After Shot offers all the basics, including cropping, rotating, and color and sharpness adjustment. There's also a Quick Fix option, which automatically adjusts the brightness and color balance of any or all of your images. The only real issue we had with the editing portion of the product was the following: to remove red eye, you simply click on the Red Eye icon and then run your mouse over the red eye you wish to reduce. When we tried this on a friend's very red pair of blue eyes, we kept getting the message "Unable to detect enough red in the region you clicked on." However, we were able to accomplish this same goal by using the Red Eye Brush, which only added another step or two to our editing project.

When it comes to sharing your edited images, After Shot again gives you all the basic tools--support for online print services, Web templates for creating HTML files and uploading photos, tools for creating screen savers and wallpapers with your photos, etc. You can also create QuickTime movies with your photo album, which simply requires installing QuickTime 5 if you don't already have it.

If time is short and quality is important, After Shot: Premium Edition is an affordable, easy-to-use, and extremely user-friendly companion to any digital camera. --Gisele Toueg

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed with digital camera users in mind, Jasc After Shot includes several tools that let you perform common photo tasks quickly and easily. Get started right away by loading pictures from your TWAIN-compliant camera or scanner directly into After Shot. Or transfer photos to your computer automatically with the one-click camera connection or PC card option. You can also fix images with one click, allowing you to instantly adjust contrast and color, remove red eye, and more. Bring photos to life with narration and text, produce slide shows, create QuickTime movies, and build panoramic images. Print images using 40 photo package templates, e-mail pictures, create Web pages, or upload images to photo sharing sites. After Shot can even help you keep track of photos by adding information for individual photos, organizing them into albums, and helping you find your pictures using a simple keyword checklist system.

I definitely agree with the earlier reviewer. The ability to select pictures in a folder and in two clicks have them in a fabulous webpage with novel controls, backgrounds and sized for efficient use on the web is worth the cost of the product.

The range of control over prints is the best I've seen. Better than my photo elements 2.0 picture package, by far

The red eye, crop etc. are the normal tools without complex features with long learning curves. I use Photo Elements 2 or Paint shop pro where they are the best tool for the job. I use this product where it is the best for the job.

This product delivers everything it says it will on the box and more than I expected. Well this was one of those positive reviews, I hope it is a help to some of you.


So simple its pathetic   December 6, 2002
2 out of 11 found this review helpful

This program works like Microsoft photo editor, so why bother buying it. I will certainly try to get a refund. I wish there was a ZERO star.