Noise reduction in ON1 Photo RAW can be applied both globally and locally. Panoramic images are exported as PSD files rather than one big RAW file as in Lightroom. Stitching panoramas works ala Lightroom with a simple Merge to Panorama selection and a very quickly working preview. In ON1 Photo RAW 2019, this is called ‘Versions’ and a great way to compare the changes made on two copies of an image. You can also make virtual copies of an image and apply nondestructive editing. Additional to this feature is the Autoalign Layers, great for lining up a bunch of images. Focus stacking is surprisingly straightforward and nowhere near as an in-depth a process as in Photoshop. There’s a handy text tool which you can use from text overlays to simple watermarking. The new AI Masking tool in ON1 Photo RAW works fantastically for local editing and masking duties. Layers on top of Lightroom functionality greatly expands the creative possibilities and for deeper edits. To be fair to Lightroom, it is more of a digital darkroom where the adjustment brush for local editing is usually sufficient nine times out of 10. Layers in Lightroom would be fantastic, but Photoshop has to be called upon for this functionality and advanced editing. For instance, you can use PSD files within ON1 Photo RAW with layers. This means that ON1 Photo RAW have taken the clean design from Lightroom with the features that people are most happy with, then added Photoshop functionality for good measure. There are also additional tabs for focus, layers, panoramas, and HDR. The tab style of layout from Lightroom has been adopted with the ‘Develop’ tab for global adjustments, the ‘Effects’ tab for adding layers and filters, ‘Portrait’ tab for facial adjustments and ‘Local’ tab for smaller area adjustments. Metadata is also easily inputted which you can change for every image.Įase-of-use editing tools are very Lightroom-esque, now with the addition of layers, text tools, retouching brushes, just like Photoshop. Organization of images with keywords has been adopted from Lightroom, so you can easily search for images via keywords. Camera and lens support profiles are in here with over 800 models covered. All filters are searchable and are non-destructive. There are also new filters such as curves, color adjustments, and film grain. In this new version, the sliders are made a little smaller and everything seems to have a cleaner look, helpful for navigating the software. On the surface, you get the same efficiency in labeling and rating your images before they are processed, along with nondestructive editing. ON1 Photo RAW 2019 has the same easy to find areas like in Lightroom, such as basic tools, sharing, presets and organization. There’s definitely visual similarities, from the color schemes to basic layout. Up Against Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopĪs ON1 Photo RAW is marketed as an alternative to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, let’s see if it measures up. With a few options on the table, let’s see if ON1 Photo RAW is a viable alternative to the other raw converters, Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Adobe does a fantastic job of integrating the two pieces of software, but having those needed tools under one roof would be beneficial. This sounds very promising as image editing can involve constant swapping between Lightroom and Photoshop depending on how deep your edits. Not to be just a fancy RAW converter, but an all in one solution for image editing. ON1 Photo RAW 2019 is one such product, which aims to integrate the most used features from Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop in one package.
RAW file converter, photo editor, and photo library duties usually fall to the most popular software products like Adobe Lightroom, but there are alternatives on the market providing a different workflow and results.