Portland, OR – October 17, 2019 — Today, ON1 Inc. announces the availability of the new ON1 Photo RAW 2020. This new version is the first release in a new line of creative products announced back in August. This professional-grade photo organizer, raw processor, layered editor, and effects app, is available today as an all-in-one photo workflow solution.
Photography Your Way, The ON1 Difference.
ON1 gives you control of your photography and what matters to you – it’s Photography Your Way. ON1 is an open system giving you control over photo organization, storage, editing, creative style, and how you purchase. While most mainstream software solutions restrict your organization and editing in closed systems, ON1 gives you an open system for complete control over your storage, organization, editing, and method of purchase. ON1 will also never be a subscription-only model.
“Customers will immediately notice the speed and quality improvements we’ve made under-the-hood. A lot of great feedback came in from our beta users, and we were able to deliver on their requests in this version,” says Craig Keudell, President and CEO.
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What’s New in Photo RAW 2020.
- New AI Match — Match how your raw photos look to what you saw on the back of the camera. This automatically detects when you shoot in black and white or custom film looks in your camera.
- New AI Auto Tone — The new algorithm does a much better job on all types of photos, also controls the amount of auto-tone you want. By analyzing thousands of photos, the algorithm has learned how to do an even better job, especially on tough images.
- New Speed & Performance Updates — Opening raw files in Edit is up to two times faster, and brushing is smoother, even on integrated graphics cards.
- Enhanced Raw Processing for Fujifilm – The decoding of Fujifilm X-Trans raw files has been improved to reduce scalloping and other artifacts.
- New Hottest and Trending Presets — Over 100 new looks and styles curated from today’s hottest photographic trends. We also added tons of new skies, backgrounds, and textures for your masking pleasure.
- New SmugMug Integration — Select photos and videos, then publish them to any of your SmugMug galleries. Even create new galleries and control the size of the photos you upload.
- New Custom Camera Profiles — Get predictable, natural color results by creating custom profiles for your camera and lights. We have partnered with X-Rite, the leader in color management, to make this easy. Photograph an X-Rite target with your camera, then import it into ON1 Photo RAW, then send it to the X-Rite Camera Profiler software to build a custom camera profile.
- Better Noise Reduction — The new state-of-art noise reduction algorithm can reduce noise, both color and luminance independently, while maintaining detail, even with today’s ultra high-ISO cameras.
- New Color Balance Filter — Remove a cross color cast from the shadows or highlights or create unique duotone or tritone tints by adjusting the color and brightness of the highlights, mid-tones or shadows.
- New Weather Filter — With the new Weather filter in Effects, you can add rain, snow, and fog to your photos to create a realistic atmosphere.
- New Channel Mixer Filter — For precise black and white conversions, channel swaps for infrared, or shift entire color ranges.
- New Sun Flare Filter — Add realistic sun spots, lens flares, and bokeh to your shots all powered by real photographs from renowned photographer and educator Matt Kloskowski.
- New Print Module — Print contact sheets, a wall portrait, or tile multiple photos into package prints, the improved print dialog can handle it all. Easily print individual images. Also, print multiple photos on one piece of paper to create packages like 2 5×7’s or 4 4×5’s. Add watermarks and sharpen before you print.
- New Timeline Albums — Exploring your photos by date has never been easier. The new automatic timeline albums organize your photos by year, month, and day.
- New Map View — View where your photos were taken on a map, explore photo locations, and add location metadata to photos that don’t have GPS metadata. Even search by location address to find photos quickly, without having to add additional metadata.
- New Focus Mask Overlay — Now you can view what’s in-focus in our photos easily. The new Focus Mask overlay marks the areas of best focus with green so you can compare similar photos and pick out the sharpest photo quickly.
- More Language Support — ON1 Photo RAW is now localized into eleven languages, giving many more photographers access to the best photo editor out there. It currently supports English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch.
- New Enhancements — Before/after image preview splitter, control preset opacity from the preset browser, Windows installer now gives the option to install on other drive, UNC paths on Windows, Lossy Canon CR3 support, Visualize brushstrokes with a red overlay.
- New Camera and Lens Support Added
Stay Tuned with ON1 – 2020 Lifecycle Features.
ON1 plans to release several free updates to ON1 Photo RAW. Here is a look at the new features currently scheduled to be included as updates in version 2020.
Supported File Formats.
ON1 Photo RAW 2020 supports raw files for over 800 cameras. Supported file formats also include JPEG, TIF, PSD, PSB, PNG, and DNG. Photo RAW 2020 also continues to work seamlessly within current photography workflows. Version 2020 can be used as a plug-in for Adobe® Lightroom® Classic CC, Photoshop®, and Apple Photos without purchasing a new plug-in version. ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is also perfect for those looking for a standalone photo editing workflow solution.
Price and Availability.
ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is available today for download from the ON1 website. Previous owners of any ON1 product can order the upgrade for just $79.99, and those who don’t own earlier versions of ON1 can order the full version for $99.99. For a limited time, ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is bundled with launch bonuses that include an additional 100 pack of presets covering some of the hottest looks and trends. A single purchase of ON1 Photo RAW 2020 works with both Mac and Windows and is a perpetual license (own it forever) for activation on up to five computers. A free 30-day trial with no watermarking and no credit card required is also available from the ON1 website.
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I do think the feature list for the newest upgrade needs to be clearer. Is a video module going to be included soon? Or is it going to cost extra? Kind of confusing at the moment regarding what is included, what will be added, and what, if anything, is going to cost extra. I also am not too keen about the way they offer extra presets for early adopters, but not for loyal customers who aren't ready to jump to the next version immediately every October.
Agree with you on many of those points.. their marketting is a bit over the top and they have sales through the year offerring different freebies, but not always the previous ones. Its a bit odd and it's guaranteed to change every year.. so while not subscription, sometimes borders that model in order to keep it up while its maturing.
minor rants aside, its now a decent product. I've used previous few versions and finally think I'm ready to ditch LR 6. It took a bit, but figured out my last beef with it... the colour profiles were always way off for the 80D (not sure if others).. turns out most of the time the profile is simply over contrasted.
it also does have many Photoshop lite type features beyond LR's offerring.. so that is nice. They even fixed the compare a bit (you can now drag the line showing before/after), but for some odd reason won't do a side to side. The only other minor nuisance I wish they'd fix is the ability to automatically save to a folder in relation to the folder you're working on vs a centralized folder or current folder.
I am with on1 for many years too (since the PPS 7.5), had a great times, as well as bad times. I have used on1 initially to only add some punch to images being processed in LR back at those days. Later on, on1 felt like a more complete package. Then came the version 10, which was first to offer HW acceleration and it caused trouble to some users - consistency problems, crashes, slow-downs, etc. But on1 fixed most of that in 10.5 release.
Then came the RAW generation. First version (2017?) was hardly usable for us, but as an effect tool, it was still quite OK. The problem (once again, for some users) was related to the cataloging module. In previsou generation, on1 reintegrated Layers module and made some advancements to masking (luminosity masking, ranges, color masking) and it felt more like a standalone product.
They have even produced the LR migration tool, which does not migrate only your catalogue, but tries to convert the edits! The problem with LR ppl though, was simple - they always want more. You've got keywords? We want keyword hierarchy, etc. kind of stuff.
Recent 2020 release (as well as previous 2019.6) are solid products, even if there is still list of some known issues. I have decided to stay with on1. Tried also a Luminar (which gets some press hype) and Exposure products, but on1 is still further in some areas. And if you are not satisfied, there's always a refund option. On1 also really cares about user input, though it is clear that you can't fullfil just anyone's wishes.
As for some questions/objections mentioned here - video and mobile products, are imo going to be sold separately, or in bundles. But that's just my opinion of course. As for presets, you have an Extras manager as part of the product, you can freely reimport your previous year collection of presets. I am not sure, but the product most probably even keeps them in between the versions. Some ppl report, that noise reduction is not on par with some other products and as for some minor annoyances, I might add one too - after hitting the space bar to see the whole image (Fit mode), it does not return to the previous zoom positin, like LR does, which is a bit annoying, when you do some precise masking and you want to switch to see the whole picture.
But - other than that, on1 is a nice package of functionality. The next battle is going to happen in the AI area. Some products seem to really accent that - namely Luminar and on1. Computational photography is the future, hence the ability to replace sky in one go and make it blend seamlessly is the way to go. The "fight" with LR is a tough one, as if you pay for PS, you've got LR in the package already. But - the competition is always healthy for end users ....
It can watermark... and does almost all of LR and some PS stuff like layers. Overall I am now happy with letting go of Adobe
spot removal etc is fine via On1. it surprisingly versatile. Once you start going to liquify though you might try Affinity Photo.. it's closer to photoshop and very affordable.. the copy I bought years ago still gets free updates! However, there is some learning on the UI.
As PBD indicated, Adobe's cost isn't that bad, I just dislike the subscription model.
I use ON1 RAW as my LR replacement.
I use Affinity Photo as my PS replacement:
Affinity Photo
I really enjoy AP, the engine in many ways is faster than PS.
And their version works on OSX, Wndows and iPad LONG before the recent Adobe PS for iPad that just came out.
I am anxious to see what PS on iPAD can do....because Affinity Photo on iPad Pro has really surprised and blown me away these past few years....example doing about a 10 image RAW focus stack on an older iPad PRO.....was pretty quick and good results, I'd have expected the table to choke on that one....
Anyway, give them a look, they have 30 day trials.
I don't actually dislike Adobe.
I just don't like the RENTAL model for software. If they'd offer a standalone again, i'd likely buy into it too. I still don't see why Adobe doesn't offer a standalone along with the CC version.
I really don't need any of the CC 'perks' or anything, I don't need my software dependent upon phoning home in order to let me do my work.
Anyway, I just the other day downloaded the On1 2020 offering, install went well and initial tests do seem to show marked improvement, especially on my old late 2011 MBP...with 16GB ram....
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Your stand alone version of PS phoned home for years before the CC version, indeed they used exactly the same kind of verification protocols which is why the 'cloud' versions of the Adobe software were pirated within hours of being released.