Photo RAW 2019 -- New Version

On1 Photo Raw 2019.2 has definitely upped the game on photo work with this version. I personally have moved from Lightroom to using this program exclusively. A friend has even moved from Lightroom/Photoshop due to the many features that can be found all in one program - and all non-destructive.

Hi Peter,

A single application for post processing is also my preferred option.

I downloaded Photo RAW 2019 for a trial when it was first released last year. Although it has features that would be handy, but definitely are not must-haves, I decided to not purchase it.

The main deal breaker for me was that ON1's Photo Raw does not allow me to use a custom screen profile for colour management. PSE does. The second deal breaker was that Photo RAW doesn't support custom scripting. PSE with Elements+ does. Writing my own scripts gives me much more power and flexibility than Actions, which can be recorded in PS but not PSE. Actions can be run in PSE though.

I also found that adjustments in ACR generally had a larger range and affect on images than the On1's RAW editor. For example, for a given image if I pulled the black point slider all the way to the left in ACR, the effect on the image was much more pronounced than the effect in ON1.

I also found that the Organiser in PSE is much more powerful, especially in search types, than in Photo RAW. Being able to do Google type searches for images in the PSE catalogue, as demonstrated by michelb, is a huge advantage over ON1 for me.

I had a look at the first video link you posted. It's interesting but from what I saw, the new masking tool is very similar to the Refine Selection Brush tool in PSE. In On1, if you have a complex selection like the palm tree leaves in the video example or fine animal hair, the new tool still makes a general selection first after which you still then have to brush over the edges to help the tool select the fine detail in the leaves or hair. This is the same process as the Refine Edge Brush tool in PSE. If ON1 or Adobe can develop a tool (using AI or whatever) to make the find detail selections in one go without having the user brush over the edges than that would be a huge plus.

So at the moment I am happy to stick with PSE for my image post processing.

I must say I'm not at all impressed with the supposed "AI" masking. It didn't work well on a test image of mine.

Had the same reaction.  I recall a very similar masking tool, that involved painting with green and red to define the areas, in a much earlier version of ON1 and it worked rather well.  AI doesn’t seem to help.  Hopefully it will get more intelligent as I recall it being very useful for extracting people from backgrounds.

Tony

Yep.....no-one intentionally puts out marketing videos showing the flaws in a product .

Always test drive, if possible, before buying and/or reviewing  

I just did a quick read-up of Adobe Sensei.

Looks like Adobe have been and are adopting AI enthusiastically.