
Reason number 5: The new AI Sky Replacement filter is great! Just with one click, a dull boring sky can be replaced with something more interesting and possibly more fitting to the scene.Reason number 4: On1 Photo Raw 2022 offers an abundance of Export options, including the ability to rename an image, a feature which is lacking in DxO Photolab – or if it’s there I’ve never found it.On the same file NoNoiseAI took just 26 seconds.
On a Nikon NEF raw file DxO Deep Prime took 1 minute 31 second to process and export as a jpeg.
And it is fast (there’s that word again). But at the end of the day NoNoiseAI is great. You’ll read many differing opinions about On1 noise reduction vs DxO noise reduction vs Topaz, and so on.
Reason number 3: The NoNoiseAI function comes as a standard part of Photo Raw 2022 – and it is good. Plus of course, these LUTs and Filters are all right inside On1 Photo Raw 2022 meaning you don’t have to export them out of On1 to a Nik package, as is the case with DxO Photolab, for exmple. Reason number 2: There are enough LUTs and Filters included in the package to effectively replace the 5 (or 6) individual components of the Nik Collection. The package opens fast image previerws render fast “real-time” adjustments to photos don’t lag and well – it just feels snappy overall. Reason number 1: As I have already mentioned it is fast…well, fast compared with version 2020 (trial) running on my Mac Mini, and fast compared with DxO Photolab 4. Not only is On1 Photo Raw 2022 the snappy photo app I remembered it as all those years ago, but it has some features that have made me kick DxO Photolab and Nik to the sideline. So I started using DxO Photolab in conjunction with the Nik Collection and this combination became a part of my everyday processing workflow.Īnd now – On1 Photo Raw 2022 has arrived, and after downloading and running a trial version of it over the last couple of weeks, I have purchased version 2022. Then I skipped the next couple of upgrades because I felt that the free trial versions of 20 were sluggish. This was an upgrade from the original On1 Photo 10 I had been using, prior to which I had been using Perfect Suite 9.5. The last full version of On1 Photo Raw I purchased was On1 Photo Raw 2018.