For about a decade, On1’s photo editing tools have been marketed and used primarily as plug-ins for Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, or Adobe Photoshop. Each tool was an independent, one-trick pony and appropriately named: Perfect Black and White, for example, or Perfect Portrait.
A couple of versions back, On1 began rolling these mini-apps into a Perfect Photo Suite that allowed users to access all the tools from a central dashboard independent of Lightroom or Aperture. The latest version—renamed —takes this plan to the next level. Photo 10 is no longer a suite in name or design: It’s now a pretty well integrated app.William PorterAn ordinary vacation snapshot improved quickly by simple adjustments to tone and color in the On1 Photo 10’s Enhance module.Yes, you can still use it as an adjunct for Lightroom or Photoshop; if you do, you will welcome Photo 10’s improved speed and cooperation among the modules.
Apr 24, 2018 The latest version of ON1 Photo is 10.5 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for Viewers & Editors in the Design & Photo category. The app is developed by ON1 Software.
But for at least some photographers willing to “think different,” the big news with this release is that On1 Photo 10 is ready to stand on its own as an alternative to both Lightroom and Photoshop.William PorterThe first image (top) is the picture I took in Udvar-Hazy Museum of Flight outside Washington, D.C. The second image (below) was created using layers in On1 Photo 10; the museum has been masked out and a star layer placed behindWilliam Porter New name, new lookThe elements of the former suite have been rearranged in Photo 10 for a cleaner, more efficient workflow. Perfect Black & White has been rolled into the Enhance module. The features that used to be found in Perfect Resize have been reassigned: resizing is now in a vastly improved export pane, and cropping is now found in the editing modules. And the various modules are no longer accessed via titles at the top of the window, but instead, via buttons in a bumper on the right side of the screen.The editing interface of On1 Photo 10. The four modules (Enhance, Effects, Portrait, and Layers) are accessed via buttons in the bumper on the right edge of the window.
In the Effects module (active here), you select presets and/or filters and stack them to get the result you want. Every filter can be masked using tools in the bumper on the left.At the heart of Photo 10 are three editing modules—Enhance, Effects, and Portrait—and a kind of sub-editing fourth module for creating and managing layers.Like Lightroom or OS X Photos, On1 Photo 10’s Enhance module can read raw files and perform basic adjustments, corrections, and enhancements to aspects of the image such as exposure, contrast, color, noise and sharpness, and spot removal.William PorterFlying at around Mach 3.5, the SR-71 “Blackbird” flew from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. In 62 minutes. I processed this image in On1 Photo 10 and added a radial blur to give a sense of speed to the image.While Photo 10’s Enhance module is deliberately straightforward, its Effects module is rich in possibilities. You’ll get a quick start on your images by selecting a preset from the drawer on the left, which is organized by different types of shooting (e.g., Architecture, Weddings, Landscapes, Sports) and different styles (e.g., Black and White, Cinematic, Hipster, Urban). But Photo 10 isn’t just a library of Instagram-style canned looks that you can slap on your images. You can edit all the presets and/or build your own sophisticated renderings by selecting and stacking the filters that are the components of presets (e.g., Antique, Blur, Black & White, Dynamic Contrast, Sunshine, etc.); and every filter can be masked and/or blended as you like.The Layers module in On1 Photo 10.
This image has three layers: the inactive unedited original portrait at the bottom; above it, a simple backdrop layer; and on top, the edited portrait, masked to allow the backdrop to appear. This is a “smart photo” PSD file, so the modules used in the top level are displayed as sub-layers that can be re-edited later.The third editing module, Portrait, provides specialized tools for editing the elements of a face discretely. For example, you can enhance detail in eyes without exacerbating wrinkles, or you can soften skin and remove blemishes without needing to make a careful mask that excludes eyes and mouth. It’s a useful module, as far as it goes.
For more aggressive edits like adding makeup, relighting or reshaping faces, you’ll need Photoshop or a dedicated app like Anthropics’ PortraitPro.Finally, there’s that special fourth module: Layers. This is where Photo 10 goes beyond Lightroom and invites comparison to Photoshop. Even within a single layer you can get layer-like effects by stacking filters and by using masks and blending. The layers module has many uses, including compositing.Edits made to raw files by On1 Photo 10 are always saved from the start in a separate file (JPEG, TIFF, or PSD). By comparison, many other apps, including Lightroom, save edits internally. The latter approach creates fewer files in your project folders; but it also means that Lightroom pretty much owns your edited files until you export them.
If you work entirely in Adobe’s ecosystem and plan on doing so in the future, this works fine. But I have always worked in a variety of editors and I don’t really trust any of them (remember Aperture?). For me, keeping my edited files independent of any one app is a big plus.William PorterOn1 Photo 10’s layers module makes compositing easy. Here are two versions of the same informal portrait, with different treatments—and different backgrounds from the collection that comes with Photo 10.William PorterMost of my editing in Photo 10 is done in PSD files, which support layers.
DescriptionName: ON1 EffectsVersion: 10.5.0Language: EnglishPlatform: IntelOS version: 10.8 or higherIncludes: KeygenMore info: photos. Your style.Adding style is part of what defines you as a photographer. Effects 10 includes hundreds of stackable filters, presets, borders, and textures to help create your style. Whether you're looking to add an HDR look, convert to B&W, bring out more detail, reduce noise, or enhance a portrait. Don't use five different plug-ins when ON1 Effects 10 is your one-stop solution.Filters, Presets, & TexturesIncludes 23 stackable filters and hundreds of presets, borders, and textures. Everything you need to add any effect to your photos.
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