Photoshop_User_June_2017

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Company: ON1, Inc.

Pricing: $119.99 (Upgrade: $99.99)

Rating:

Hot: Sophisticated RAW editor; powerful

image-management/filtering tools;

new develop module

Not:

Review by Michael Corsentino

ON1 Photo

2017

Photo Organizer, Editor, RAW Processor,

and Effects App

ON1 Photo 2017 is a completely new, sophisticated, beautifully

implemented piece of software, delivering a ton of new features

and a fast, state-of-the-art RAW-processing engine and image-

processing pipeline, ON1 Photo RAW. The interface is still

thoroughly familiar, however, for anyone transitioning from a

prior version, and intuitive enough for new users.

Let’s talk about RAW and why you need it in your life. In

addition to the much wider latitude RAW files allow—compared

to JPEG—when making exposure adjustments, the other huge

benefit of a RAW workflow is nondestructive image editing. The

value of this can’t be overstated. With hard-drive storage and

large-capacity memory cards now relatively inexpensive, RAW

is no longer a question mark, but the only way I’d tell you that

you should be working if you aren’t already.

ON1 Photo 2017 is packed with significant improvements

and useful changes designed to make your life with RAW

workflow easier and faster. New to ON1 Photo 2017 are:

nondestructive RAW image-editing (as mentioned above);

new local adjustments (rejoice!); faster ON1 Effects; a brand-