On1 Photo RAW 2024 is Coming This Week!

On1 Photo RAW 2024 is Coming This Week!

I have used On1 Photo RAW for several years now, and of course I make tutorials about it on my YouTube channel as well. For a while now they have been providing teaser videos about upcoming changes and feature additions to the product. I have been testing this new version for a while and it’s really solid. And, it’s going to be available this week!

If you don’t have it yet, you can get it here (aff link):  https://on1.sjv.io/3PRvYd 

There are a lot of things to talk about with this new version, but here are a few that I think everyone will be really pleased with:

• Brilliance AI

• User Interface improvements

• Fast performance all around

• Enhanced Layers panel

• Enhancements to Keyword AI

• Text can be added as a Layer

I just released a video showing off some of this cool new stuff, which you can find below. In particular, I cover Brilliance AI in the video and demonstrate how it works. It’s really a great idea and it is well-implemented as well.

Brilliance AI automatically adjusts a photo based on what it detects the image needs. In addition, it creates Local Adjustments with masks for each region of the image it identifies. This simplifies the editing process and speeds it up as well. 

I think everyone is going to be really pleased with On1 Photo RAW 2024 and I will be making additional tutorials covering the product. Thanks!

Aurora HDR - Still a Good Option in 2021?

I have used Aurora HDR since the first version came out years ago. But it hasn’t been upgraded in a couple of years. In this video, I dive back into it and see if it still holds up to today’s standards. Enjoy!

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Here’s the image from the video. Fully edited in Aurora HDR, and I have to admit I really like the result, even though I have gotten away from processing HDR photos. Interiors like this always look good in HDR, in my opinion.

Back in the “old days” of just a few short years ago, I basically shot brackets every time I went out with the camera, and I edited nearly every single image as an HDR. It was what I loved to do, and I did it. A lot.

But in the last few years, I have drifted away from both shooting brackets and processing images as HDRs. I now mostly shoot single exposures, and am quite happy doing so. But on my recent trip to New England, I ended up shooting a few brackets and thought it would be fun to dive back into Aurora HDR and try my hand at processing some images as HDRs. Now, the image in this video wasn’t actually shot on my trip - it’s an older image from a trip to Dublin, Ireland years ago. It was just the recent trip to New England that inspired me to try HDR again.

And mostly I was curious as to how well Aurora HDR would hold up compared to the sort of things you can do with apps these days. You see, Aurora HDR has long been my favorite HDR processing software, but it has not been upgraded with new features in a couple of years. So I asked Skylum about it, and they said they felt it could still hold its own against other HDR editors.

And while this video is not a feature comparison between Aurora HDR and other HDR editing apps, I do fully edit the image in Aurora HDR here, and check out the various features (many of which I had forgotten about) and see how well I can manage an image here, vs having to start here and finish elsewhere (like in Luminar AI, for instance).

Spoiler Alert: The end result is that I am still impressed with Aurora HDR, and having rediscovered it, I may begin to use it again with other photos. I had forgotten that it support LUTs (something I am really into these days), has Lens Correction and Transform tools (which work great), and although I did not forget that it has a Layers function, it was good to be reminded of that. They can come in really handy!

Hope you enjoy the workflow video and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

If you are interested in a getting a copy of Aurora HDR, you can get it here: https://bit.ly/2N3av7b

Use coupon code JIMNIX to save $10 while you are at it!