Time to go with someone else I think.Īnd for anyone who might be trying to make up their mind about an ON1 product, here's a little gem that I just discovered: On1 RAW has done a good job on my RAW files (Fuji especially) but I'm tired of the laggy performance even on a good machine. seems to be the next step for me at least. I will not use Lightroom or anything Adobe (other than my old version of Photoshop CS5.1 that I own).
On1 raw 2020 editing portrait software#
I think my next software will be Capture One Pro. I've been using it for about 3 years now I think through the updates. I think this will be the last year I use On1 RAW personally. But just previewing your RAW files and moving between them is slow. Again, the editing is real time, fast, that part is good. My platform is an 8 core, 16GB RAM and SSD. You'll click again thinking you didn't click it right, but did. A lot of transitions from one piece of the software to the next is slow too. So if you're chewing through a few hundred photos at a time to pick the best of your session, this will get old fast. But just browsing your files and previews is slow. The editing is real time and fast, after the preview is generated. My criticism of On1 RAW is that it's slow. I can set several edits to convert to output as TIF after my edits and move on and not wait for it to process that, it handles it in the background. The latest version, 2020, is better than the previous versions for work flow. The shadow recovery is great, the white balance is great, all the RAW editing options work really well and it handles Fuji files out of the box (this is why I originally even got On1 RAW was for Fuji RAW files, as not much out there supported Fuji RAW back then). So keep that in mind with respect to my use and where I'm coming from. I merely do my RAW edits here and output as a TIF for further editing later in Photoshop. I don't do any primary pixel editing in it. I primarily have it for RAW manipulation of Canon & Fuji RAW files.
The TL/DR version: Jack of all trades, master of none. Like this is just my opinion - I think if you search the previous threads about On1, you will find that both of us have expressed these sentiments in previous threads. Maybe they will find some tool or approach that will attract users amidst all of the other nurnies and farkles offered by competitors, but if their goal is to emulate and outperform LR, then they still have a lot of work to do (I do not use LR regularly, but I do use ACR occasionally and have for a long time). Who knows what On1 will try to do to differentiate itself - it has always been a LR clone with filters on the back end. Nowadays, these hobbyist apps are all trying to carve out their particular niches to compete - Topaz has gone all-in with AI everything, Luminar has their automated face retouching and sky replacement thing, etc. However, if you are paying for admittance to this community, then that might make you feel like you have a level of exclusive access that gives you value for the money. The nickel and diming for what seems to be a perpetually unfinished product pushed out to users to beta test for a fee might turn you off, regardless of how good the results are. I think the not so talked about aspect of the On1 software model is the money they charge for things like a subscription (ironic) to their user forum/knowledge base, and the non-stop charges for upgrades.
On1 raw 2020 editing portrait trial#
I would, therefore, download a trial before making any decision about buying into the most current On1 ecosphere.
Also, I have not attempted to use it recently (in the 2020 version).
I will emphasize that I do not need a DAM for my work, and perhaps On1 have really nailed it with their DAM model, so I cannot comment on that aspect of the software. I never really used the software because it simply did not work with my workflow and took so much longer to use (even switching between modules within the On1 environment was painfully slow). After a couple of upgrades, which I had to pay for, and feeling like I was essentially paying to be a beta tester, I stopped wasting my time. The software never really worked well, despite the forceful marketing push that claimed a lot of things and was aimed at people who were turned off by Adobe's move to a subscription-based model. I purchased these apps because I am just the kind of person that likes to try new things and push them to their limits to try to make them fail. I originally purchased and tried to use Photo 10 and the first couple of iterations of PhotoRaw (v1 and v2017). Some people like the workflow and the results, others do not. I think the general consensus on the threads about On1 and the all-in-one raw conversion environment is that it has always been slow and not particularly efficient to use.
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