Great tool to add effects to photos
356353
Great tool to add effects to photos. Friends love it and I love it! Only downside is that the front lens does not work with the IPhone front camera lens
1746776
This is so much fun to use, and I keep discovering new things about the program!! It has almost all the functions of Photoshop as well as 3D models you can use for references, as well as lighting and shadows (if you're like me and can't do them without a guide). It has several different tools, from oil paint to watercolor to ink- as well as markers, pencils, and pens!! It is an anime oriented program, but it's easy to use to make realistic images as well! 10/10!!
99947
I used this for editing professionally on FCPX and it works great! My initial kit shipped with a glitchy core but Palette customer service was amazing & took care of the issue incredibly quickly! I was so impressed!

Ive had no issues since and I love all the fine-tune controll I get with the device when Im editing. Its really added an extra level of speed and it brought back some of the tactical feeling that has been lacking in the process for me.

I highly recommend it to all editors, digital artists, musicians, photographer, ectthat use one of the programs they support its so worth it!
2589039
I love using the ExpoDisc. My skin tones turn out amazing and editing time is reduced by at least half.
1214942
It works pretty good. Great for creating those nice close up images. The different lengths allow you to find the right combination to get as close as you can to your subject. It is very durable as well, but I've noticed that with many products from Fotodiox.
3677043
As a long-time user of Photoshop, I was frequently disappointed with the colors in my digitally-manipulated photos. It's possible that it's because I'm not savvy at creating masks in Photoshop. After looking at demos on the Nikon website, I decided to give Capture NX2 a try and was very impressed with the color controls like D-lighting (simply shadows/highlights in Photoshop), and the ability to easily make local changes. One of the best features of Nikon Capture NX2 is the auto-retouch tool, which replaces a selection with something else in the picture with similar surroundings. I can't tell you how this has saved many wedding photos. To me, this feature alone is worth the purchase price.

Although I like this program a lot, the interface is extremely clunky. It's hard to browse the edit list on the right-hand side as the list gets longer. Capture NX2 is slow, even on a powerful desktop. I can't see it becoming part of a regular workflow unless performance is improved. One of the nice things that it allows you to do is copy the edit list from one file and apply it to another, but this is also painfully slow.

If you're looking to give this program a try, download the 60-day trial from Nikon before making a purchase decision since it won't appeal to everyone.
1716453
will not replace photoshop for me, but offers a wider control over certain color correcting and balancing features. Have not used it thoroughly, but this single feature alone was worth the cost of the software. Also took a class from Nikon where they highlighted features of this software, and what I saw in that class combined with my experience with this software makes it easy to recommend.
312258
This product makes outstanding slideshows from your photos. More effects than you'll ever need. Simple, intuitive interface. Lots of options.

Take your best photos from vacation or a special event and go crazy with this program. It will make you look like a multimedia guru.

When a video editing program is overkill and you just want a snappy presentation with music and/or narration, this fills the bill.

For a bargain basement price, I couldn't ask for more.
1706873
Great learning tool with great photos.  Great explaining of how each photo was produced.  If you need inspiration and want to move your photography to another level this is the book for you!
4062163
I consider myself a longtime amateur when it comes to digital photography.  I like to play around with photos, but would like to gradually learn more about how to take better pictures, and how to edit them afterward.  AfterShot Pro is the perfect fit for me.  This is not the software you would use to make pixel-level edits but, rather, it is for doing overall fine tuning of a photo's color, sharpness, tone, etc.  In other words, if you need to erase an object from a photo, use something else (Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and others).  But if you need to darken a picture, accentuate the shadows, crop, tilt, etc. then this is a very easy-to-use tool.

Here are a few highlights for me:
1) Play around all you want...your original photo never gets changed.  AfterShot Pro lets you find a photo and start tinkering with it right away.  It might feel as though you are messing around with your original, but the truth is that all changes get made to a copy.  Basically, you can create and manage multiple versions of a photo without every needing to worry that you've ruined something.

2) Lots of presets that get jobs done quickly.  For example, some of the default presets are "Bluer Skies" and "Deeper Shadows".

3) You can make a sequence of modifications to one photo, and then copy and apply that same sequence to other photos.  You can even save those steps as your own preset, if you think you'll need them again someday.  For example, suppose you take a lot of daytime beach photos.  After looking at your photos, you realize that in most of them, the color of the sand looks washed out.  Well, make all the adjustments you need to one of your beach shots, and then simply apply those adjustments to the rest of the photos that have the same problems.

4) Lots of advanced features that will be there for me if I move beyond "amateur":  For example, there is a "Lens Correction" tool that lets me browse through a database of hundreds of SLR lenses to find the one I used for a picture, and it will make small (to me, nearly imperceptible) adjustments to a photo, based on the known distortion that lens exhibits.

5) Quick access to documentation.  Though AfterShot Pro doesn't come with a printed manual, its online documentation is well organized, helpful, and immediately accessible from the program's help menu.

Recently, I saw that there was a good price on Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom 4 (comparable, though not identical to AfterShot Pro in its features, and typically much more expensive).  I was tempted to buy it, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I'm really quite happy with all that I can do with AfterShot Pro.  I believe both programs have trial versions that allow you to test them out for a limited time, so you can compare for yourself.  But at roughly half the cost of Lightroom, Corel's AfterShot Pro is perfect for me!
3833302
I purchased the MS20 Tabletop Photo Studio Kit. I bought it to take better jewelry photos for my online business. It came well packaged and included everything described in the listing including the light and a bulb. When unboxing, be sure to look under the brown paper at the bottom of the box, this is where the seamless cyclorama infinity background is. Set up took about 20 minutes. It came with printed assembly instructions and an instructional video CD. The setup video was very helpful!

The seamless background is COOL, and works great! It's lightweight, so if you need to move it to a different location, it makes it easy. You can even add additional lighting for your photo needs. The cost of the kit to me, is well worth it. Overall... this does the job, and I am really impressed! :)
3668406
Well worth the price and very user friendly. The results look amazing (for both photo and video) and I couldn't be more satisfied.
4745159
Photo editing software has come a long way. I used this software to scan and enhance some old photographs circa 1939-1965 and was able to both enhance photo clarity and remove minor imperfections than probably were already on the original negative. Thanks to this editing software, many prized family photos that were deteriorating and collecting dust in a box in my closet have found renewed vibrance and are saved on my computer, ready to produce crisp and clear prints.
1920945
Great program. . allows for some amazing editing at a fraction of the cost of the higher priced Photoshop.
3399331
A very powerful photo editing software. I've wanted a editor that would let me extract pieces of pictures and paste them in other pictures. You can view videos and pause and capture frames. There are a lot of edit features but I don't see where most of them improve your old pictures.
I like the layers and look forward to getting good at using them.
Overall it is easy to use. The internet instruction and forum pages are ok but I've seen much better.
Help files are good.
Once I get more experience I can do things in just a few minutes that used to take me 20 minutes.
1541508
So easy to use and the photo effect are just out standing...  a little noisy to start with but get use to it after awhile..  Beats having to keep changing lens (i.e) wide angel and Zoom.....The Vibration control is fantastic,,,  Took photos going over bumps and wow it worked.......
398443
HitFilm 3 Pro is a great piece of software! I've been using the software since version 1 and each version has been a huge step up. Tons of color grading/correction tools. Tons of tools for creating visual effects. 3d model and particle effects. The best green screen tools that I've used. I use this software for my own personal video productions and for work. It also comes with Mocha tracking software, which is extremely useful as well. Also, look out for the Atomic Particles effect, you can make a lot of great stuff with that one. Oh, and I should mention that this software is very inexpensive compared to other VFX software and is not on a subscription format.