![]() ![]() The only thing that might be truly new here is layers.If you think about it, all RAW software besides LR was catalogless at one point: Capture One, DxO (still is), Aftershot, SilkyPix, RawTherapee, etc. The website also tries to give the impression, in my opinion, that it somehow invented catalogue-less editing, which is already present in Aftershot Pro 3. I'm not as familiar with Lightroom, but I'm sure it has many local adjustments as well. Darktable, the Raw editor I use, also has powerful local editing via parametric and drawn masks and it's pretty effortless to do the editing features that are supposed to be contained in the new ON1 editor, including local skin adjustments, skin smoothing, colour tone smoothing. I'm not a user, but the claim on their website that it is "The world's only non-destructive portrait retouching app" is false. However I have decided to stick to Lr for several reasons: RawTherapee (once my principal catalogless RAW development software) development seems to have stalled and I have new gear that it has problem dealing with, I have incorporated Perfect Effects and Nik Collection into my PP workflow, and I have got used to have a software to manage my photos and going back to the manual trick is hard, just like now I will NEVER try to manage my 1000+ music collection manually as iTunes is doing the job for me.īUT if ON1 can persuade me to buy their RAW editor of photo suite at a reasonable price, I might give it a shot (of course I will do a 30 day trial first). Catalogless can effectively give me more freedom in organization of photos. Currently I have two laptops (one portable and one performance), three 2.5 inch USB HDDs, and two USB SSDs, but the way that Lr catalogs work basically limits my workflow to one laptop and its internal HDD which is quickly draining out (I use Windows, and the drive letters can drift around, making organization messy). The idea is to make the system more portable.This makes a lot of sense to me. Then again, there will also be cases where extreme individuals will still need Photoshop.īut instead of storing non-destructive edits in a central catalog, it will produce and save sidecar files alongside the original RAW files. Of course, there will be exceptions for certain types of edits. ![]() And perhaps for some workflows this is true, but it is definitely not true that the vast majority of retouching cases will need Photoshop with the best current Raw editors. So, I believe their claim is that they can replace the Photoshop part. I believe their actual emphasis was on "portrait retouching", because traditionally (and often still) people still use a Raw editor and then something like Photoshop for more advanced edits, and in this regard Photoshop is indeed much more advanced when it comes to doing really crazy local editing. I know Aftershot Pro 3, Darktable, and Rawtherapee all do this, and I think (though I'm not certain) Lightroom also. I think is more "non-destructive" to the Jpeg file, rather than RAW files, marketing slang but they could be "technically" correct about this.Most, if not all, other Raw editors can open JPEG/PNG/TIFF files and do non-destructive editing to them as well. Are there any ON1 users out there who have thoughts on this? There is not really enough information on ON1 Photo RAW available yet to know whether it is worthwhile, so I haven't pre-ordered the upgrade. I guess the same could be done after editing the RAW in ON1 if you needed to go back to LR. Currently, if I go to ON1 as a plugin from LR, I create and edit a psd file, which can later be further edited in LR. It is not yet clear whether we will have lens profiles, or how LR will play with ON1-edited RAW files (and their sidecars, if at all). I am not convinced I either need or want another RAW editor, or that sidecar files are the way to go. ![]() The idea is to make the system more portable. But instead of storing non-destructive edits in a central catalog, it will produce and save sidecar files alongside the original RAW files. However, the next version, ON1 Photo RAW, due out shortly, is a full stand-alone (or plug-in too I think) RAW editor. I currently use the ON1 10 suite, mostly as plug-ins in Lightroom.
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