ON1 recently announced their upcoming software, Photo RAW, and it sounds like it may be a really good solution for most photographers (read more about the features here). They are striving to make the best RAW photo editor, which is a big claim. However, they’ve just announced a project that makes it look possible.
The Photo RAW Project is intended to gather and develop tools that will meet that the needs and desires of us photographers. To that end, ON1 are inviting everyone to suggest ideas, and when enough people support the idea, they will begin making it a reality. Many of these ideas may not be ready for the Fall launch of Photo RAW, but they are promising to continue working on them.
You can add to the ideas at this link. There are already several ideas submitted, and some are already in development, which may mean they were already underway which in turn may mean ON1 is already in tune with some of the needs photographers feel are unfulfilled.
What do you think of this “Project”? Is this a great way to meet our needs? Have you ever participated in something like this? Is this just free research? Does it matter? Let me know in the comments.
I am interested to learn how On1’s photo raw will process Fuji raw files. LR and Photoshop CC do not always bring out the best of of Fuji’s raw files. Since I all ready use On1 it would be great to have a raw processor that will bring out the best in my Fuji images.
Good point! Lightroom is EVEN SLOWER with Fuji files. It doesn’t seem to matter if you convert to .dng either!
An alternative to Lightroom would be great, because Lightroom is so very slow! I can’t stand waiting for Lightroom to do its thing.
Something with the speed of Photo Mechanic, and the image quality of Capture One would be awesome!
I wish someone would buy Aperture from Apple and take it to the new level.
How will this software compare with Phase one capture 9?
Until it ships we can’t really say