ON1 Photo Raw

[Poefolk]

Any here use ON1 Photo Raw to process Fuji files?

I recently downloaded trial versions of Alienskin Exposure X2 and ACDSee Ulimate 18 and spent quite a bit of time comparing converted RAF files in these two programs as well as DNG's using Iridient X-Transformer and LR.

The combination of X-Transformer and LR was clearly the best out of the these programs. Alienskin and ACDSee both did a few things well, but overall, X-Transformer and LR combo was better.

ACDSee retains highlights really well, but in certain situations absolutely crushes reds and turns them a hot pink color. ACDSee also begins with a quite saturated file, probably too saturated for my taste. Overall details are retained quite nice though and at least on the files I sharpened, didn't exhibit worms or artifacts. There was no water color effect either on trees and foliage that I could see. This program also showed, in some instances, nasty red chromatic aberration on light colored tree limbs and branches, something not present at all in LR.

Alienskin colors are very similar to Iridient and LR. It gives you nice image to begin with. However, preserving highlights was an issue and overall details were pretty poor. Even after sharpening, the details just had a slight muddied look. No water color effect that I saw on trees and foliage. Alienskin exhibited the same red chromatic aberration as ACDSee on tree limbs and brances in some shots.

I was just comparing these programs as raw processors and didn't really get into any of their other features. I still have the trials for a couple of weeks so I'll continue to play around with them and see what I can do, but Iridient X-Transormer is still the king for Fuji RAF files, imo.

That brings me to my original question. Anyone tried ON1 Photo Raw? I found a blog post from July, and the guy says ON1 will be adding Fuji film simulations sometime this year, which would be really cool. Most Fuji lenses are supported by ON1 and include lens corrections. I'll probably go ahead and download their trial and see what it looks like.

http://joelwolfson.com/on1-photo-raw-2017-2-now-great-fuji-raw-processor/

http://joelwolfson.com/fuji-film-profiles-coming-on1-photo-raw/

http://joelwolfson.com/new-fuji-features-improvements-on1-update/

 

[dv312]

My favorite plugin for LR , hands down

I especially like the OnOne special effects with presets

Highly recommended

 

[JakeInChicago]

I purchased On1 just over a month ago and have been very pleased thus far. It's does not have feature-parity yet with Lightroom, but they're getting closer with each release.

I've found a few minor bugs (no show-stoppers) here and there and have contacted support over email regarding them and have always heard back within a day confirming the issue, that a case has been created, etc. It's quite refreshing.

The other nice thing is they have something called a On1 Photo RAW project, which is a user-facing idea board. Any user can go on there, create an idea, other users can vote and comment on it, and after some threshold of votes has been reached, their developers will take it under consideration.

You can see what they'll be releasing in their next release here, with the big standouts being HDR, Panorama, Versions:

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www.on1.com

You should definitely give their evaluation version a try and see how it works for you. Also, when they release this new version, the evaluation period will very likely reset (it has for me in the past when I was between releases in evals), giving you an even longer demo period.

Not a shill, just a happy user 1-month in after purchase (please keep that time period in mind), with probably 3 total months of actual use when taking the demo period into consideration.

Cheers,

Jake

 

[Doug MacMillan]

I bought Photo Raw on release. I still prefer On1 Studio 10, but Raw does pretty good.

I rented the XE2S to try. I went to import the RAF files into my standalone version of LR, but it refuses to recognize or import the files. I checked and my LR version is up to date.

I manually copied the files to my computer and Phot Raw had no problems previewing and opening the files.

Processing looks great. I had an image where I wanted to open up the shadows more than the camera JPEG. A simple slider adjustment did the trick.

Fuji JPEGs with film simulation are so gorgeous I plan to only resort to RAW for really tough images or for wall hangers where I plan to do extensive post processing or want to take advantage of my special effects plugins.

Inprefer my LR/PS workflow, but I'll be darned if I'll resort to the subscription service to go directly into LR.