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Yes, you can develop one image and apply its settings to hundreds of images in a set, then export them for assembly into a movie.

Time-Lapses: ON1 works is just adequate for basic time-lapse processing:

Its improved layering and excellent masking functions are great for blending separate ground and sky images, or for applying masked adjustments to selected areas.

Nightscapes: ON1 Photo RAW 2019 works acceptably well for nightscape still images:

The lack of support for third-party plug-ins means ON1 cannot work with essential time-lapse programs such as Timelapse Workflow or LRTimelapse.Ī finished nightscape composite, with stacked exposures for the ground and stacked and tracked exposures for the sky, layered and blended in ON1.

Despite a proliferation of contrast controls, for deep-sky images (nebulas and galaxies) I was still not able to achieve the quality of images I’ve been used to with Photoshop.

Filters, though abundant for artistic special effect “looks,” are limited in basic but essential functions.

For example, there is no stacking and averaging for noise smoothing. Functions in Layers are still limited.ON1 2019 is Better, But for Astrophotography … NOTE: All images can be downloaded as high-res versions for closer inspection.

USING ON1 PHOTO RAW 2018 GRADIENT TOOL FULL

While ON1 Photo RAW 2019 is much better, I concluded it still isn’t a full replacement of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, as least not for astrophotography. The question I had was: Are they enough for high-quality astrophotos in a non-destructive workflow, Adobe Photoshop’s forté. I won’t detail all the changes to ON1 2019 but they are significant and welcome. When working with Layers you are no longer locked out of key functions such as cropping. You no longer have to flatten and commit to image settings to layer them for composites. I’m glad to see many of the shortfalls have been addressed, with the 2019 edition offering a much better workflow allowing layering of raw images while maintaining access to all the original raw settings and adjustments. I was critical of many aspects of the old version, primarily of its destructive workflow when going from its Develop and Effects modules to the limited Layers module of the 2018 edition.

USING ON1 PHOTO RAW 2018 GRADIENT TOOL HOW TO

In my eBook “ How to Photograph and Process Nightscapes and Time-Lapses” (linked to at right) I present dozens of processing tutorials, including several on how to use ON1 Photo RAW, but the 2018 edition.

Many reviewers love the new ON1 – for “normal” photography.īut can it replace Adobe for night sky photos? I put ON1 Photo RAW 2019 through its paces for the demanding tasks of processing nightscapes, time-lapses, and deep-sky astrophotos. Combining Browsing, Cataloging, Raw Developing, with newly improved Layers capabilities, ON1 is out to compete with Adobe’s Creative Cloud photo suite – Lightroom, Camera Raw, Bridge, and Photoshop – for those looking for a non-subscription alternative. Released in mid-November 2018, the latest version of ON1 Photo RAW greatly improves a non-destructive workflow. Can the new version of ON1 Photo RAW match Photoshop for astrophotography?īut … as always, it depends.