If you print your work, soft proofing will display how the photo will appear when printed onto the paper by using the appropriate color profiles. Straight up, soft proofing is a money-saving feature. When photographing on-location for an architectural gig for example, tethering is a good plan to make sure you are capturing everything in the highest detail and Photo RAW 2018.1 fits seamlessly with that workflow. Tethering gives the ability to trigger the camera’s shutter from within Photo RAW as well as adjust settings such as aperture and shutter speed. The captured photos can have import settings applied to them as they are taken. If you own one of the many compatible Canon or Nikon cameras, now Photo RAW 2018.1 will allow for tethered shooting via USB cable to get photos into the computer instantly. When creating a template, I’m able to pick and choose what specific metadata fields I want saved. So for the metadata you always add to files, such as your copyright information, this can be recalled from a template to save time and you won’t have to continuously enter it in manually. I mentioned the ability to change metadata on import above, and to add to that I should also say in 2018.1 metadata templates can now be created. Smart Import in the new Photo RAW 2018.1 Metadata Templates Sometimes when culling it feels like my right arrow key on the keyboard is going to break, but auto advance simplifies things and automatically moves to the next image after I give a rating or color label.
Photo RAW even added some enhancements to browsing including custom sorting, batch renaming, capture date editing, video browsing, and my favorite: auto advance. If I decided to cull later while importing, the photo browser is actually super fast to load previews and work through images to find the best ones.
With either certain photos selected that I want to pull off the card, or having everything selected to cull in Photo RAW later on, I can then choose from my most frequently used folders and catalogs or go in an select anywhere else on the drive to import the photos to. I can rename the image files with keywords, sequential numbering, etc., as well as add metadata, add photo filter presets to get them started off with the right look, and even adjust the capture time and date in case I forgot to set it correctly in camera while traveling across time zones.
With this tool, I can take care of multiple tasks at the time of importing images off a memory card. The new Import feature is a welcomed addition to Photo RAW 2018.1. Now, let’s dive in to all the other new features of Photo RAW 2018.1. Improvements like this mean sharper images with fewer artifacts, all without changing anybody’s workflow. Photo RAW 2018.1 is no exception, as they have again tweaked the debayering algorithms to increase micro detail and reduce aliasing in photos. One thing that stands out is that they always prioritize the image quality and their software’s performance in these updates. With Photo RAW 2018.1, ON1 has created a photo editor designed by photographers for photographers. There’s even a Layers module for creating composites and blending layered photo stacks. The Resize module features an industry-standard image enlarger that you probably heard of and uses Genuine Fractals for top-quality results. And sometimes when you don’t have a particular look in mind, the included stylized filters with live preview in Effects can narrow down the direction to head in with your image. In the Develop and Effects module, non-destructive editing is capable of getting the look that you want out of your images. I know it best as an excellent raw file converter and editor, but it can also handle JPEG, TIF, PSD, PSB, PNG, and DNG files just as well. It can organize your photos in Browse and quickly import, cull, catalog, tag, rename, and more. From importing and cataloging to editing, layer-based compositing, and printing, the new Photo RAW 2018.1 is a powerhouse for every photographer's workflow.Īs a refresher, Photo RAW 2018 is the complete package in photo editing.
ON1 PHOTO RAW 2018 WHITE BALANCE UPDATE
A free update to ON1 Photo RAW 2018 made sweeping improvements to performance and image quality and also introduced new features.