Moose wrote
> Brian, I don't know if you are mixing up two different companies and
> products, but it appears so.
>
> You refer to the $20 offer from Corel, but that is for AfterShot. If
> that's what you bought, that's what you have a serial number for.
>
> You then talk about Sagelight, which is a product of 19th Parallel. If you
> try to put an AfterShot Serial # into the Sagelight registration # box, it
> will certainly fail. Sagelight is indeed the one that says its
> registration is typically the PayPal transaction ID.
>
> As Sagelight costs $40, if you spent $20 at the link Piers originally
> posted, you bought AfterShot. If so, download AfterShot, as the purchase
> confirmation screen with the serial # offered for you to do in the first
> place. When it first opens after installation, there will be an
> opportunity to enter the serial #, which may be copy and pasted in.
>
> Sagelight is a new entry into the overcrowded market for Raw converters
> with some editing functions. It also has no library function, which may be
> good or bad.
>
> AfterShot is a development from the Bibble Raw developer with some editing
> functions and library. Bibble has been around for years. It was recently
> purchased by Corel and reworked into Corel AfterShot. Various folks
> babbling on the net think it has been changed mostly in name only, while
> others think there have been significant changes by Corel.
>
> I have no technical was of knowing, but imagine that in buying a $200
> product and remarketing it as a $100 Raw work flow front end for their
> existing image editor, they would spend as little time and money as
> possible in modifying a relatively mature product.
>
> Unfortunately, as you well know, we folks here tend not to change subject
> lines when the subject changes, and both products have been discussed in
> the same thread.
>
> Moose
Thanks Moose ... no wonder I found it all a trifle confusing.
>From looking at the receipt, you are indeed correct.
Now I wonder if I've wasted my time / money.
I don't need a library done for me; I'm quite happy with whatever system I
devise for myself.
Oh well, since I have paid for Aftershot I might as well download it and use
it.
On my first try of Sagelight with one of the backlit autumn scenes of about 2
years ago which caused me so much anguish over the lack of ability of
digital; I did take some ORF images, and on my first inexpert attempt was
able to effect considerable, welcome, colour recovery - and blow-out
reduction - in backlit yellow autumn oak leaves, without detriment to the rest
of the image. Judgement based on a quick look only at this stage.
Brian Swale.
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