I find hierarchical collections to be a good way of organising my photos, although I can live without them. It is possible to remove all the edits and even to remove all the changes applied in any of the individual modules, but I would rather be able to step back to any point in the process. When I tried to find the same view on ON1, I found it doesn’t exist. Every time you make a change in Lightroom a restore point is added to the history view and you can step back to that point at anytime. The History view is one of those things in Lightroom which I don’t use often, but when I do it is pretty important.
Even if I purchase an upgrade version every year that is still about half the price.ĭevelop options ON1 Photo Raw Negative Pointsįirst I’m going to mention the few negative points I’ve found in my short evaluation of ON1 Photo Raw.
In contrast, the ON1 Photo Raw 2018.1 version is about £60 to purchase the software and own a perpetual licence to use it. On my rather elderly iMac (2011 i5 version with 12G ram) I can hardly run Photoshop because of the resources it needs, and anyway I only occasionally want to do pixel level editing. Now that is actually quite a good deal if you use it all the time, but for the most part I only use Lightroom. I’ve been subscribed to the Adobe Photographers plan for about 5 years now and over that time I’ve paid over £500 to have access to the latest version of Lightroom and Photoshop. It was only after I’d played about with it for a while that I started to seriously think that it may be a good move, and to be honest this was driven by cost more than any other factor. I received a promotional email from ON1 about a discount being applied at the moment because a new version has just been released, and I thought I’d download the 30 day trial to see if it looked interesting. I didn’t actually decide to look around for a Lightroom replacement because I’m dissatisfied with Lightroom. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been evaluating a copy of ON1 Photo Raw with the thought of switching to it from Lightroom and I’ve written this post so I could share my thoughts.