I just got back from Phoenix conducting a seminar at the Arizona Highways Focus on Photography Symposium entitiled: A New Age in Raw Workflow with ON1 Photo Raw. I’m now transitioning to ON1 Photo Raw 2018 More details in the review After 10 Years of Using Lightroom From the viewpoint of a battle tested Lightroom and Photoshop user, I have to say that this newest offering from ON1 is both ambitious and incredibly capable of filling the role of “ the other guy” in terms of both quality and usability.This image is from an X-Trans raw file (Fuji sensor.) These are normally a big challenge for raw processors but I was able to process it quickly and effectively with ON1 Photo Raw 2018 using 2 of my favorite filters- Dynamic Contrast and Color Enhancer. What ON1 brings to the table with Photo RAW 2018.5 is a standalone program that embodies virtually everything that the current champion of processing software provides… *cough* … Adobe. Does it offer what, in my opinion, is one of the most comprehensive photo editing platforms available today? I believe so. Is Photo RAW 2018 perfect? Of course not. What’s more, they have continually worked to improve their product with each successive generation. The team at ON1 has consistently offered top tier customer support and technical innovation that is not commonly seen either in the photography world or anywhere else. Over the years I’ve had the somewhat unique opportunity to observe the evolution of a company as they have evolved within an admittedly competitive industry. Let’s take a quick walk around ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5. The software itself packs in so many options and possibilities that it could seem to be a bit overwhelming to from some users especially if you don’t have a background in using programs like Lightroom. We’ll also shine some light on whether or not this newest offering from ON1 can play in the same league as the big boys from Adobe. We’ll look at the features you might like and the ones you might not. This review will walk you through some of the big features of ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5. In fact, ON1 designed Photo RAW 2018.5 to work right along side Photoshop and Lightroom as a plugin.Įven though Photo RAW 2018.5 offers plenty of post processing punch (which we’re about to cover in a minute) it also targets, and could very well solve, what might be the biggest obstacle most of us must glide over when switching from a well known editing platform: the fear of the unknown. ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5 was released a few weeks ago and it is the latest ultra-powered offering from ON1 that strives to not so much dethrone Lightroom and Photoshop but rather provide a gentle reminder to the user that there are in fact other outstanding pieces of software available. Let’s go ahead and acknowledge the extremely large elephant in the room: we’re talking about Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Their team has worked to make an image editing platform that combines the best of top tier photo processing software and bundle everything together into an extremely dense standalone image editor. Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to evaluate and review multiple generations of photo processing apps and software from a company called ON1.
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