Feature Comparison: ON1 Photo RAW, ACR, PSE Editor

Also, ACR has a "Tint" adjustment slider in the White Balance controls in addition to the "Temperature" adjustment.

I don't see the "Tint" feature at all in your chart.  It's a very important adjustment to fine-tune white balance  and I would have thought it should have been included if your aim is to provide a complete comparison.

PSE also has many, many, many more editing features which I find very useful that do not appear in your chart.

ON1 RAW and ACR are both raw converters/editors, PSE is not.  So I am not convinced that comparing PSE to any raw converter is fair.  I see it akin to comparing an apple to an orange.

To be honest, with the error I mentioned in my previous post and with the omission of the "Tint" feature in ACR and the many other editing features in PSE, I don't see the chart as much use for me personally because I now have little confidence in its accuracy and completeness.

I don't have time to go through your chart with a fine tooth comb to check it.  But obviously, people can take it for whatever value it may have for themselves.  For me, I would now have to do my own comparisons and checks if I really needed to know the features of each product.

But thank you for taking the time to try to put this comparison together.

I feel some clarification is needed here since I have just noticed that you have "Nested albums" listed as an edit function. 

In your OP you mention the 3 applications you are comparing the editing features of -



But first some background information in case you are not aware.

Photoshop Elements (PSE) is made up of 3 parts all integrated with each other -

1. The Organiser,

2. The Editor

3. Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) which is built in to the Editor.

I would have thought that "Nested albums" is really an organising feature rather an edit feature, but in any case of course ACR and the editor won't have "Nested albums" because that is not their function.

However, the Organiser does have nested albums.  There are 2 ways you can set up a nested albums tree in the Organiser:

1.  Nest album categories (which cannot contain images, just actual albums) and then create an album to add images to within the last album category.

2.  Using keyword tags to create albums.  First create a new Keyword category named "Albums" (or whatever you like) and then create as many levels of subcategories as you like under "Albums" to add images to.  The advantage of using keyword categories in the same way as you would use an album is that you can add images to any sub category.

So imho, if you have "Nested albums" listed as a feature it is not fair to just simply say ACR and the Editor don't have them, as in your chart, because neither of those parts of PSE have an organising images role.  A fair way to include "Nested albums" in your comparison would be to have a 3rd column for the Organiser and set "Nested albums" to "y" and n/a (not applicable) for ACR and the Editor.

This way you would be comparing all of ON1 with all of PSE and not just 2/3 of it as you are currently.

As always, just some food for thought