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ON1 Photo RAW 2025: Unmatched Photo Editing Power with AI Tools and Much More!
Portland, OR—September 3, 2024—ON1, the developers of professional-grade photo editing software, proudly announce the upcoming release of ON1 Photo RAW 2025. This latest version will include an incredible blend of new technologies, features, and significant improvements to existing tools. The release is currently slated for October.
Revolutionizing Retouching with Generative AI and Depth-Aware Editing
ON1 Photo RAW 2025 introduces new and powerful generative AI features that enhance the content-aware capabilities of both the crop and new Generative Erase tools. These updates enable photographers to extend canvases more naturally and remove large distractions, like people or cars, while filling in missing details with realistic results. Additionally, the new Depth Masks feature utilizes powerful AI models to infer the depth within a scene, allowing photographers to blend or apply adjustments or effects based on the scene’s depth. This adds a layer of control that hasn’t existed before, making effects like lens blur and other adjustments more natural.
Automated Editing Tasks for Removing Common Distractions
The introduction of automatic detection and removal of common distractions, like sensor dust and power lines are also new features coming in this release.
Enhanced Color Editing & Layout Creation
ON1 Photo RAW 2025 expands its color editing capabilities with two new filters. The Edit Color filter offers precise hue, saturation, and brightness control within specific color ranges. The new Match Color filter allows photographers to apply the color from one image to another, making it the perfect tool to mimic others’ looks and style. Additionally, improvements to the new canvas dialog simplify the creation of layouts, making it easier to set common sizes and add your photos in one step.
Streamlined Organization
Photo organization will also be enhanced with the new Target Album feature, allowing users to set an album as a target and quickly add photos to the album with a shortcut key. This will help streamline sorting through extensive collections of images, making album management faster.
To further enhance the organization of your photos, ON1 Photo RAW 2025 introduces Stacking. This feature is handy for organizing brackets, bursts, and other grouped shots, reducing clutter and speeding up the culling process.
What’s Coming Next
Looking forward, ON1 is excited to reveal several features and updates that will arrive soon after the initial release of version 2025. These include Generative Replace, allowing users to seamlessly add new elements to their photos by simply describing what they want. The Super Select AI tool for selections will also be enhanced, allowing users to point, click, and erase entire objects from their images, streamlining the editing process.
Additionally, Document Templates will provide professionally designed layouts for various projects, and Face Restoration in Edit will bring cutting-edge facial enhancement to Photo RAW 2025.
The new Edit Camera Profiles dialog will allow photographers to fine-tune the default colors their cameras produce, allowing for greater customization of color. This feature will be great for those looking to adjust certain color nuances, like making reds more saturated or shifting greens to enhance foliage.
Improved Perspective Correction tools will also be introduced, making it easier to adjust horizontal and vertical keystoning while automatically scaling photos to prevent transparent corners. This improvement ensures that users always have a full layer of pixels.
Price and Availability
Pre-order a license for ON1 Photo RAW MAX 2025 with plugin capabilities ($149.99 upgrade, or $169.99 for new customers) or Photo RAW 2025 for standalone use only ($79.99 upgrade, or $99.99 for new customers), and receive the new ON1 2025 Creative Pack of 100 presets, LUTs, and extras delivered with Photo RAW 2025 this fall. Customers who pre-order version 2025 can use Photo RAW 2024.5 until the new version is released. Photo RAW MAX 2025 is also available as part of the ON1 Everything Subscription Plans, which include all of the current ON1 editing applications and plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, Affinity, Corel PSP, and Apple Photos, along with ON1 Cloud Sync storage and all future versions of each software title in the plans.
About ON1 Photo RAW
Elevate your photo editing game with ON1 Photo RAW. Perfect for photographers of all skill levels, ON1 Photo RAW offers an intuitive yet powerful platform that blends speed, versatility, and quality into one AI-powered application. It’s the ultimate AI photo editor and includes everything a photographer needs in one application. Experience why it’s the top Lightroom Alternative, giving you the ultimate control to bring your photographic visions to life.
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Well not quite but it really made my decision to exit their ecosystem final. In the last round of auto-updates I got a nice message that many adobe products I had are no longer compatible with my equipment. To keep using their products I needed to upgrade(buy) all new computes. Big Nope, not doing it because they want to add even more AI features to their products.
Here is the nice screen I got when the Adobe Creative Cloud update process started.
My current pick (even their newest 2025preview) seems to work just fine.
While the catalogue location does remain a big issue for me, I am pressing onward as so far I am liking the way On1Photo Raw processes the images. And I am quite impressed with the results of the NoNoise component!
I think I may try to stick with it for new images, despite the aforementioned catalogue issue described in the previous posting, which would mean I will still need to find something to work as a DAM for my image archives.
The New Truth: I have joined the On1 affiliate team so going forward any links to On1 products will most likely be affiliate links.
Here’s one. 😎
The first hurdle in trying to migrate to On1 Photo Raw from Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom has already been encountered. And for me it is a major one, is the catalogue database, in particular the location.
Coming from UNIX background, on my setup the main workstation Operating System (windows) lives on a small 256gb ssd file-system, my LightRoom catalogues are on a dedicated 1tb internal ssd and all my images are out on a many TB NAS. There is no space on the OS file-system to store large catalogues.
I fear what would happen to the OS file-system if I pointed On1photo to the NAS with almost 50 years of work in poking around the imaging industry.
I did try fooling it by moving the %appdata%/ON1 folder to the catalogue drive and creating a symlink to it in %appdata% but all on1 did on startup was ignore the symlink and it recreate the local folder, kind of useless. and most likely kills this option as a workable DAM (Digital Asset Management) system.
In LightRoom you can put the catalogues anywhere and just point to them in the app settings.
This same issue is what killed my attempt at using ACDsee which also seem to insist on storing it catalogue on %appdata%
Adobes latest change to their TOS (Term Of Service) which I and many others find not very acceptable was the kick needed to finally start actively looking to migrate to alternate platforms. So the switch from Adobe has begun in earnest.
I had already switched from Adobe Premier to Black Magics Davinci Resolve as a video editor. And now have purchased On1 Photo RAW as a very promising good candidate to replace my long standing association with Adobes Photoshop and Lightroom. I have been using photoshop for decades from way back when I started on version 2 in 1991/1992.
While there are many photo editors out there both free and paid, not many have a robust integrated library management system. So one of the hardest part was deciding on something that might work as a replacement DAM (digital asset management) solution for my tens of thousands of images most stored in adobes dng format, that have accumulated over my 1/2 century (Yikes) of poking around in the business of photography.
I’ll try to post updates as I find time to work on the migration to a new platform, when I am in country, Couple of biggish trips to far off destinations are in the works at the moment where I won’t have access to my main servers.
if you are also interested here is the link to On1 Photo Raw, they do have a 30 day trial!