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My friends at ON1 announced Photo RAW 2024 today and its marquee feature, Brilliance AI, definitely lives up to its name. This new adjustment in the Develop module will streamline your workflow - and I love how ON1 has delivered AI-powered ease of use without the sacrifice of control. I share more of my thoughts about the Brilliance AI tool in this video and also highlight several other new features and improvements coming in Photo RAW 2024.

And if you’re confused about ON1 Photo RAW vs. ON1 Photo RAW MAX … read on. I break it down for you in very simple terms.

My top 3 features coming in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 are:

Brilliance AI

The Brilliance AI tool in Develop harnesses the power of AI editing yet keeps control in the hands of photographers. I love the way ON1 has implemented this new tool. Not only does Brilliance AI make a great first edit of your photo, it also analyzes the elements in your image and offers individual control over the various regions. Brilliance AI also taps into NoNoise Ai and the Portrait AI modules to apply appropriate levels of noise reduction and portrait retouches automatically.

And it goes one step further by creating Local Adjustments for each of the detected regions. If your photo calls for some fine-tuning, Brilliance AI has made it easy for you to make your tweaks.

Brilliance AI delivers quick, easy AI-powered edits without the sacrifice of control and fine-tuning photographer want.

Unified Masking Controls

Prior versions of Photo RAW have multiple masking tool groups - Mask, Faces, Local, and Refine. There is a lot of overlap and frankly it’s been confusing to many users. ON1 Photo RAW 2024 unifies all of the masking tools into a single Mask tool group. Huzzah! Commence rejoicing.

A single tool bar with all the masking tools and the refine tools covers all your masking needs. Whether you are masking an Effects filter, a face or skin in the Portrait module, a Local Adjustment, or a Layer, you’ll work in a single, familiar Mask tool group. No more bouncing among tool groups to create and refine masks.

Search

The search experience in ON1 Photo RAW 2024 is so much better that prior versions. In older releases, searching was kind of clunky, with a search window that took up a lot of space on the screen and got in the way of the search results. ON1 Photo RAW 2024 has a search toolbar at the top of the Browse window. Search with freeform text, by attributes like star ratings or color labels, or by EXIF, IPTC, and other image metadata. The search bar also taps into AI power to search for photos with one or more faces and filter by gender or age. And the entire search sits above the main display area in Browse. The search results are always visible.

And there is, of course, more features and improvements in this release.

ON1 Photo RAW Or ON1 Photo RAW MAX?

ON1 Photo RAW 2024 has two offerings, Photo RAW and Photo RAW MAX. Both have the same editing features. Everything from Browse, Develop w/ Brilliance AI, and Effects through multi-photo merges like panoramas and HDR blends, to layered workflows, portrait retouching, and Resize AI.

The key difference with ON1 Photo RAW MAX is that MAX is able to run as a plugin to other photo editors. If your image workflow begins in another software package like Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop, Affinity Pro, Capture One, or another editor supported by ON1, you can round-trip to ON1 Photo RAW MAX directly using a standard plugin workflow. Use ON1 Photo RAW MAX as a single super-plugin instead of the individual ON1 plug-ins. If you’ve been missing the plugin function of Photo RAW since 2021 … MAX is what you want to look at. Send your images to ON1 Photo RAW MAX and add style in Effects, retouch people in Portrait AI, upscale with Resize AI, manage noise with NoNoise AI, and leverage all of the editing features of ON1 Photo RAW.

Pricing & Availability

ON1 Photo RAW 2024 will be available in the fall of 2023. And don’t forget to use the offer code SDP20 when you buy and SAVE 20%!

• ON1 Photo RAW MAX 2024 with plugin capabilities, $149.99 upgrade or $179.99 for new users

• ON1 Photo RAW 2024 for standalone use, $79.99 upgrade or $99.99 for new users