[mike]

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 result

 

You got a little bit of an exaggeration going, having downloaded LR at the same time I installed the free Corel PSX9 and AS, I didn't find LR any easier than the AS. Or less clicks. Then I've been a long time Silkypix user. IMO, SP seems to be setup to give great result, fastest, with the least amount of fiddling on many photos at once. IOW, I found it best when wanting to print or share a hundred pictures. The flow is very conducive for this.

 

But I hear you. If I can't open the program and get through to an acceptable result in a reasonable amount of time from the first time you used it  I move on. That was my thought on the OLY software. It was just real slow to me too. I literally would batch convert with the OLY with the as-shot settings to TIFF and then use SP. Not ideal.

 

With Corel some things you do have to do in one package or the other; AS or PSx9. They make it, and you'll love this, one button operation to go back and forth. I know one of them does panoramas and facial recognition; not functions I use regularly. I'm not saying it's perfect tool, it surprisingly had a lot of bases covered for the price; free for me, but still cheap otherwise.

 

I've read different reviews with slightly (the key word here) different results with the RAW converters. IMO, none of the pictures comparing C1, LR, and AS were deal breakers. But I'm not a pixel peeper. Some reviewers actually like the AS results over LR, almost all liked C1 best.