On1 photo raw vs lightroom free#
I have C1 free for Sony and this works really well for Sony image vs LR. I agreed C1 done great job with the colour it seems for shadow recovery by not bringing up too much magenta/green. So, I think I have to give C1 a slight edge against LR this time - mainly because it handled colours much better. On the other hand if you look at C1 noise reduction around the dog it looks bad. Noise reduction is a tough one - I don't like the fact that with LR I couldn't get rid of big white pixels on the dog without going crazy on luminance which makes it big smudgy blob. LR did weird colour shift this time, black fur goes into magenta. So to get it out of the way - ON1 is laughing stock again.Īs to C1 vs LR it's kind of hard for me to decide. That's how the photo looks like without touching it at all:Īnd what I could achieve with RAW converters: I used Exposure, Shadows and Noise Reduction sliders in all 3 programs. It’s solid and fast.So to follow it with a extreme shadow test, that is a photo (100% crop) of a black dog underexposed by about 4 stops. C1 has been for pros from the start (it was originally written to use with Phase One medium format equipment, and the industrial grade approach remains). That and the sluggishness when going through many images have made me use it less. Their development style has been implement features first, debug later. On1 is a newer package that’s been targeted at consumers and only recently marketed to pros and demanding enthusiasts. If you want prepackaged “looks” that’s also something On1 is good at. On1’s real power comes from its effects - filter simulations, dynamic contrast, sunlight filter, etc. So I find C1 best at natural renderings - exposure, highlights, shadows, a bit of split tone, clarity, CA and distortion correction (and film mode for Fuji) and you can end up with a great result. C1 is usually the best thing at high quality raw conversion, and if you happen to have a Fuji you’ll see much better detail in C1. On1 has a built in hdr maker that’s very good, and makes panos and focus stacks easy C1 doesn’t. There is also the option to catalog folders for faster loading and searching but this is slow too so you probably only want to catalog your most recent folders.
On1 photo raw vs lightroom software#
But this approach does make the software feel slow, because it’s always re-rendering images from raw. So if you want to take the file to another computer you copy the sidecar file and it loads like you think it should. When you go back to the same file, On1 renders the edits again using the sidecar as instructions. In On1 you’re using their file browser to browse the files in place, and when you make edits they’re saved in a “sidecar” file, which is a file with the same name as the original and a different extension that goes in the same place.
The main file handling difference is that in C1 you’re still importing folders of images (originals are left in place, previews and edits are added to your C1 catalog folder what you see in the C1 browser panel is the folder structure on disk and if you move the files there’s a function to provide the new location in the C1 browser). I’ve spent a lot of time with both On1 2018 and C1 and I’m willing to talk about them and not Lightroom.īoth of them let you keep the images in a regular folder structure.
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