In this preview blogpost i´m taking a look at the ON1 Photo Editing Software and the best features that look most promising. Now a lot of photographers are using lightroom and are more or less happy with it, but whats really, really missing in lightroom is fast browsing without the annoying catalogue system and fast loading times. I don´t need a catalogue system at all, when i´m editing photos, i know exactly where my photos are stored anyway. First thing i want to do is to quickly browse through all my photos and make basic adjustments for all photos at once and this software seems to do all that:
The On1 Editing Software also offers Non-Destructive editing, which means you can edit a photo give it a texture, vingnette, cross processing, vintage look…just like you would do with the color efex pro plugin, but only with very fast speed and without having to work on a copy of your image and then sync all of that on to all your images if you like. It does this INSTANT by using the power of modern graphics cards like from Nvidia and AMD. Yes finally a software that really takes advantage of your GPU!
Here some of the Top Features, which no other editing software can offer right now all in one:
- Edit your photo while leaving the original file intact
- Create multiple versions of photos without taking up disk space
- Customizable workspace
- The world’s only non-destructive portrait retouching app
- The world’s only non-destructive stackable and re-editable filter app
- Built-in layers, brushes, and masking tools
- Works also as a plug-in
ON1 Photo RAW Tech Specs requirements
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| Operating System | Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10 or 10.11 Windows Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 current maintenance releases, 64 bit only |
Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10 or 10.11 Windows Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 current maintenance releases, 64 bit only |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo, Xeon or better processor(s) | Intel Core i5, Xeon or better processors(s) |
| RAM | 4GB RAM (8 GB RAM when used as a Photoshop plug-in) | 16 GB RAM |
| Hard Drive | 1.5 GB for installation | 1.5 GB for installation Fast 7200 RPM or SSD drives |
| Display | OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 256 MB video RAM, 1280×720 resolution | OpenGL 4.2 compatible video card with 1GB dedicated video RAM, 1920×1080 resolution |
| Optional Application Integration | Photoshop CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 Photoshop Elements 13, 14 Photoshop Lightroom 5, CC, CC 2015 Apple Photos |
Photoshop CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 Photoshop Elements 13, 14 Photoshop Lightroom 5, CC, CC 2015 Apple Photos |
| Other | Internet connection for activation, auto update checking, content downloads and tutorials. |
Internet connection for activation, auto update checking, content downloads and tutorials.
Wacom tablet for pressure sensitive input |
This all sounds extremly impressive and if all that works like ON1 is promising like the built in layers, retouching for portraits without having to use photoshop, the very fast speed than this could be the TOP competitor for Adobes Lightroom. Even if you will keep working with Lightroom this will put pressure on Adobe to further improve lightroom or even to make a completly new and fast Lightroom that can compete with ON1 Photo RAW.
ON1 Photo RAW Software will be availabe this fall 2016, pricing will be announced but you can pay a membership for ON1 Plus Pro 149.99 per year and you will get all apps they offfer inc. ON1 Photo RAW Software: https://www.on1.com/plus/
I hope to get a review version of this and you will of course be able to read a review on this blog!
More information can be found on the official website for ON1 https://www.on1.com/apps/photo-raw/
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