Not all the filters are my cup of tea nor suited to my style of work – I don’t use textures nor add film grain, nor do I add borders to my photos – but some are tremendous and can add oomph to how your images look.Ī handy hint: Whether using On1 or any editing tool, do take care when changing skies. For example, Dynamic Contrast gives results like the Structure slider is Silver Efex Pro.
Some of these filters do a great job when you have learned how to use them. In On1 Effects they are editing tools where you can add fully adjustable, blendable, and maskable layers, similar to Photoshop's adjustment layers with sensible starting points to work from. When anyone mentions filters in digital editing, I think of the horrible effects available on Instagram. If you are a Lightroom user, you can export all your adjustments from there into the develop module. Most of the sliders are similar to Adobe’s, but with the addition of a midtones slider. The develop feature has raw adjustment sliders that are similar in looks to Lightroom or ACR, but have a far more accurate and gentle touch to them than Adobe’s offering. Following on with the lovechild analogy, it inherited from the best bits of Lightroom and Serif Affinity, after they had a ménage à quatre with Nik and Photoshop: Develop With the Browse Module, you can either navigate through the file system, as you would with Adobe Bridge, or use the catalog to rate, tag, sort, and then find images as you would with Lightroom. If you have a large catalog, then it’s a long process, but you can continue working as the changeover progresses. Pleasingly, when moving from Lightroom to On1, you can import the collections across into On1’s Albums. You can use it like a file browser, or a catalog to access your folders and images. The Browse module seems like the result of a fling between Adobe Lightroom and Bridge. You can quickly and seamlessly jump between different modules in this single app, carrying out actions that would otherwise be spread over several programs.
It’s an asset management, raw development, and photo editing tool with extra bells, whistles, and drums. I think of each module is the lovechild of other software, inheriting the best aspects of each parent Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity, Topaz DeNoise, and the Nik Collection all rolled into one. I need to decide if I am ready to completely change my way of working. It’s come a long way since then and, for a lot of photographers, it has become a viable alternative to Lightroom and Photoshop.
I’ve used On1 alongside other software for many years, going right back to the early versions of Perfect Effects and Genuine Fractals. I’ve been on the verge of permanently swapping from Lightroom and Photoshop to On1 Photo Raw for a long time. Will the Latest Version of On1 Photo Raw 2022 persuade me to finally abandon Adobe? Please help me decide whether I should. And I use an Asus AiDrive (on the go) and Photosync (at home) to get photos on and off the iPad.It’s something I’ve been contemplating for some time. And, of course, there's the iPad's 'file system' to deal with, but I'm not that bothered since processing each photo can range from seconds to a few minutes for each photo. I'm still using PR for asset management, tags, and keywords as that's one area that few companies have addressed on the iPad. I'd set it to a maximum of 10 GB but it was over 30! Needless to say, I deleted the lot and moved it to my second drive which has no doubt slowed the program down even more.Īs a result of all this, I'm doing more and more of my processing using Snapseed and Affinity Photo on my iPad, and getting results that are just as good. So I had a look at PR's buffers, one of which was the preview cache.
What's worse is that my system drive (SSD) recently ran right down to 500 or so MB of free space left, despite moving My Documents, Downloads, and other folders to my second drive.
It still runs OK on my Surface Pro (for now), but that only has a 12" screen.
But as PR has got prgressively bigger and more bloated, it has also got slower and slower almost to the point where it's unusable on my Core i5 PC with 16 GB of RAM, despite my having added a fast 4 GB 1050i graphics card. I don't have the problem you've seen, using it with a mouse or with the pen on my Surface Pro. I've been using ON1 Photo Raw since the days when it was Perfect Effects 4, and I'm getting to the point where I've all but given up.