Portland, OR—ON1, a provider of photo-editing software, revealed its next major release: ON1 Photo RAW 2024. This latest version will introduce AI-powered features designed to empower photographers of all skill levels to elevate their work.
“We are incredibly excited to unveil ON1 Photo RAW 2024. It’s a culmination of our dedication to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in photo editing. This release embodies our commitment to empowering photographers with state-of-the-art AI-driven features; significant upgrades to performance and usability; seamless workflow enhancements; and tools to amplify creativity. ON1 Photo RAW 2024 is a significant leap forward. It reaffirms our mission to provide photographers with the tools they need to bring their photographic vision to life,” said Craig Keudell, ON1’s president. 
Moreover, the new version represents a pivotal shift in focus for the company. Vice president of Product, Dan Harlacher, explained: “In this release, we are spending a lot of resources on usability, performance and stability throughout the app.”
The user interface underwent significant enhancements to become cleaner, more readable as well as faster. Harlacher added: “New users should find it easier to get started while existing users should feel very comfortable with the new workspace.”
Furthermore, the release introduces Brilliance AI. This new feature streamlines editing to make almost any photo look better without all the extra work that goes into raw processing each photo. In addition, the major release aligns with the company’s long-term vision. It addresses modernization and performance as well as paves the way for future innovations.
ON1 Photo RAW 2024 Key Features
Among its key features, the version integrates ON1 Photo RAW MAX as a plug-in with tools like Develop, Effects, Portrait AI, Sky Swap AI, NoNoise AI, HDR, as well as Resize AI. Further, ON1 Photo RAW MAX is compatible with industry-standard software. This includes Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Apple Photos and Affinity Photos. Plus, photographers get 200GB of cloud storage for one year and three activations, without a subscription. 
Version 2024 also enhances performance with upgrades that focus on areas most important to ON1’s customers. They include browsing and opening photos from browse to edit. Opening a raw photo into Edit is up to three times faster.
In addition, at the heart of the release is a new AI-powered feature, Brilliance AI. It provides intelligent color and tone adjustments that mirror a photographer’s intent. The AI-powered color, tone, noise and detail adjustments interpret each image. Consequently, they deliver results unique to the image and reflect the original vision for the photograph. The photographer can control each adjustment with one slider.
Brilliance AI also attacks noise and retouching needs in photos; it automatically utilizes NoNoise AI and Portrait AI. And it automatically applies local adjustments. Thus, it permits control over elements like the sky, foliage and people. With the click of a button, photographers can add other regions like water, animals, mountains to achieve their results without complex selections, masks or filters.
Moreover, photographers can redefine the editing workflow with batch adjustments powered by Brilliance AI in Browse. They can prepare photos in batches for editing. Plus, they can make use of AI recommended effects. The software’s AI analyzes a scene and provides suggestions for selecting the most suitable effects.
Additional Features
Furthermore, ON1 Photo RAW’s modernized user interface offers a more fluid experience for newcomers and experienced users. They can access tools via a cleaner layout and maintain full feature accessibility. Navigating between managing photos in Browse and editing photos is also easier. The software integrates Browse and Edit modules, allowing users to switch between them instantaneously. 
In addition, highlight recovery was enhanced with an improved highlights slider. The new version brings HDR-like results to single shots, while maintaining natural-looking results in areas like clouds and skin. There’s also an enhanced Layers Pane in the Edit module that will be more familiar to Photoshop users. Photographers can now adjust the pane’s height manually, switch layers as well as view and edit the settings applied for each layer.
ON1 also updated Keyword AI to detect regions alongside objects, helping with faster organization. It will automatically generate region-based and related keywords, enabling swifter searches and cataloging. Further, the new Search Bar will improve the way users can find photos. It will make common searches easier by exposing things like faces, types and edits. As a result of these updates, photographers can take charge of cataloged folders with more control over preview size, scan frequency, CPU utilization, Keyword AI scanning, and Cloud Sync publishing—with four times faster cataloging speeds.
Another improvement regards the Text feature. It will present each text block as a separate layer. This will give photographers more options by masking, blending as well as applying effects filters to individual text layers.
ON1 Photo RAW 2024 also introduces auto-embedding of metadata for JPG files, for searchability across applications. Moreover, the ability to paste pixels from external apps as new layers offers much-improved integration possibilities.
Availability
Currently, photographers can preorder a license for ON1 Photo RAW MAX 2024 with plug-in capabilities for the following SRPs: $149.99 for the upgrade; $179.99 for new customers. Or they can preorder Photo RAW 2024 for stand-alone use at $79.99 as an upgrade or $99.99 for new customers. They will also receive the new ON1 2024 Creative Pack of AI presets and extras delivered with version 2024 this fall.
ON1 will announce the official release date for version 2024 in the coming weeks.
