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The Corel sw does all this. Also, I never tried to make an album based on shooting distance, it never seemed relevant to me, but I can select all the photo's based on it. I've also never really cared about facial recognition but it will find them.

 

From everything I read reading on-line reviews the hardest part for any new (to the reviewer) sw is if the flow doesn't match what they are used to, instead of learning, they dis the new tool and complain.

 

I already read one of the comparing reviews and the quality of the exported picture was worse than LR (which is also not the best on the market).

 

Corel themselves made a comparison with LR. Face recognition in LR yes, in Corel After shot pro No. No to panoramas as well. And if i look at Corel's "director", it's a very ugly reminiscence to Windows 3.11 - thanks a lot. 

 

But people dissing?

 

Or people make a comparison to what they are used as workflow and see "with the new software I need 5 more clicks or one tab is left side, the other right side" for no better reason than to make it different than others? I mean, you can even measure distances made with the mouse. If I need 1 m to finish a picture or 10 m + 50 clicks more... a lot work for no better result does give me reasons for critical comments as I saw it can be done better.

 

Sure sometimes it's lack of knowledge. Aperture was not easy to learn, so if I have to look for an alternative, it's normal I prefer one which is as good or better. If it's worse at 80% of what I need, there's no point in forcing myself to spent more time for worse results.