Dear Scott, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for all your tutorials on ON1. I have been watching them for about a week and have learned so much. Thank you very much. I am really looking forward to the new version of ON1. Brilliance AI will simplify my workflow a lot.
Looks like an interesting upgrade, the increased speed will be appreciated. The interface refinements sound good, but for a casual user like myself will be a bit of a learning curve. Looking forward to any tutorials you do, especially workflow with this new interface
For those of us that have used ON1 for years, there'll be an adjustment to the UI for sure. I'll do my best to demystify when I get access to the software.
I have used your coupon and committed myself to v2024: $67.99USD inc NY sales tax. That's less than I paid last year, when I didn't use a VPN to locate myself I the US. Thanks.
Excellent intro to ON1. Looks like a really good upgrade this year. For me the speed, new UI, highlight recovery will tempt me to break out the credit card 😀
As a long time ON1 user this 2024 release looks like a winner! Really enjoy and will look forward to your videos when you break down the ON1 features for us . THANKS!
I watched your RUclips video on the new version. Great, thanks. After you first added Brilliance AI to the photo and showed the result you are able to fine tune the photo. After fine tuning can the final result be saved as a template or preset that can be batched and applied to ANY number of photos afterwards? Is there more control on people in photos - control of not the whole person but just faces specifically? I want to batch lots of photos to brighten faces because I shoot many events without flash and other software will adjust photos but I need all the same adjustments with face brightening. Thanks guys!
The experiments I've done with Brilliance AI and presets... when you save a Preset, have *only* Brilliance AI (and optionally Lens Corrections) set in Develop and also select the Locals but *not* the masks. If you want to control the faces themselves, that's better done with Portrait AI, which you can also include in presets. For AI-based presets, don't include the masks (let ON1 find the person and apply your settings). HTH.
My question is this. Can it recognize grayscale TIFF files? The 2023 version couldn't, which is something my old copy of Photoshop CS6 can do, as can Affinity Photo 2.
Yes, you can batch process portraits. The adaptive presets in Photo RAW 2023 help with this as well. I recall ON1 has posted video tutorials on this topic.
Well, I was thinking here comes more hype from On1- time to refill the coffers by issuing a new "gotta-have" upgrade. But you may have reversed my thinking on this. Good info you have provided here and you seem genuinely impressed. I guess I'll rethink it. Thank you.
Looking forward to you getting your hands on the product and trialling it for us on your own images. The Brilliance AI teasers seem to mask simply into sky and non-sky segments or portrait subject and background. What happens for images that need more sophisticated masking? Mask AI, introduced in ON1 2023, also looked great in the teasers, but turned out to be very hit or miss. For many images, the performance was poor and it was more time-efficient to use a different masking approach and that didn't change with the minor upgrades through the year. In fact, the upgrade that introduced foreground and background as segments seemed to result in a lot of images only having those options in mask AI, not the more sophisticated regional masking which made Mask AI sound so promising. Speed improvements and an improved search interface will be welcome though. No sign of any changes in the blemish removal tools, which is an area I have always struggled with in ON1.
Thanks Scott, looks to be a really big upgrade to the program. You mentioned key commands for the Perfect Brush - one action that I've never discovered the key command for is switching to 'View" from, say, a brush or any other mouse change. Is there one?
The 'Z' key jumps to the Zoom tool... my standard "get me back to square 1" hotkey. You can also customize the hotkeys in Photo RAW to your liking. scottdavenportphoto.com/blog/set-these-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-in-on1-photo-raw-2021-right-now
Hmm, Brilliance AI above Tone & Colors? I always start with developing with Tone & Colors (and selecting appropriate camera profile) before anything else. Thought it made more sense to have it at the top. What is your take on this? Once available, would you recommend applying Brilliance AI before or after Tone and Colors? Thank you so much for sharing.
I don't know enough to answer with authority yet. The teaser videos don't show if Brilliance AI makes changes to Tone & Color in Develop, or does that all through the Local Adjustments. Or if Brilliance AI "decides" to change the camera profile. Waiting to get actual stick time with the software.
This from a guy who drives a standard shift car. The question is, how much creative decision do I want to concede to a machine? I get that brilliance will take some of the heavy lifting out of the process, but to what end and to whose idea of a ‘perfect” picture? My ideal 24 editor would have all the existing ON1 23 features, but with a new, improved, easier to negotiate interface. Just some questions.
At the risk of answering a rhetorical question ... the answer is zero. If Brilliance AI isn't for you, don't use it. Or use it sparingly, or at lower strength... or to your point, to the level (all, some, none) that aligns with _your_ vision for _your_ photography. And hopefully some of the UI changes in ON1 2024 help with the easier to navigate bit.
Not a great answer to a legitimate question. If you don’t like it don’t use it. I have money and more importantly time invested in ON1 and would like to see it improved, but not radically changed. I also have Luminar Neo and the DXO suite, both which I use and while not perfect, do the trick. On thing ON1 could improve is its crash rate which is far above the other two. In fact I’ve never had a crash with them while ON1 does quite often. This on a Mac with lots of RAM.
I tested your coupon code for the MAX UPGRADE option - which is listed at $149.99. With coupon it costs $143.99. So, how does 20% only reduce the price by $6.00 ?? Are they applying the 20% discount to the $179.99 full price - no upgrade discount recognized?
ON1 has said anything either way. Can't say with authority, though I'm hopeful that Brilliance AI will work on an image type (RAW, TIFF, JPG, whatever).
@@ScottDavenport If Brilliance AI works better with RAW files, one could use Topaz Jpeg to RAW for all the Jpeg photos, then to Brilliance AI. . . . Also I am needing to enhance (maybe with Brilliance Ai) 11 hours of 60-year-old 8mm movies, all Tiff Image sequences from a pro film scanner -- one .tiff image for each movie film frame. Possibly could batch process all movie frames through the software.
Not keen on the automagic single slider version of b* AI - that's what made me drop the Skylum subscription. The detailed editing with B* AI seems like a less capable of the auto masking in Lightroom / ACR. With pricing being this crazy high when you want both standalone and plugins, then I don't think I'll renew. The 20% off would help, but it just seems excessive compared to what I pay for Lightroom/Photoshop. It doesn't get anywhere near the same value.
Hi Mads ... sure, fair. If Brilliance AI isn't for you and you're an Adobe-centric user, selective choice of an ON1 plugin or two makes more sense for your workflow.
Sounds like lots of improvements that were needed. The face masking is terrible - currently - you can’t separate the mask for each thing - eyes, lips etc - but the new version doesn’t have AI like photoshop can add wings or a limb that’s missing etc. definitely needs more presets
I've never really warmed to Photo Raw despite the fact that I was always updating to the latest version. Especially its ability to mask things did not convince me, for that I always prefer Affinity Photo. Thanks Scott
There's too much redundancy in the user interface (UI), so convoluted, making user experience (UX) so frightfully confusing for the casual/occasional user. Over the years as more features got added, the UI became more unwieldy. It's as if tool icons, panels and buttons were randomly thrown around the screen without giving much thought. 😢
Hopefully this is a step in the direction of consolidating functions. There is some value to having certain tools always at your fingertips, less interruption to one's workflow. Though the mask group 'sprawl' was unnecessary and I'm glad that's getting addressed.
ON1 Photo RAW - jack of all trades, master of none. That's been my experience for a couple of years. Everything with that software is just mediocre, e. g. the quality of the RAW conversion, the perspective correction, the somewhat clunky user interface, to name but a few. Oh yes, and we all have heard and seen those affirmations that everything has been vastly improved by ON1 marketing people ad nauseam, but basically they sell you the same stuff over and over again and you'll be hard pressed to find real improvements or enhancements. Instead, ON1 Photo RAW overwhelms users with the sheer quantity of features and underwhelms with their quality and implementation.
For MAX yes, because you're also getting the moral equivalent of Photo RAW (~$99) and all the plugins (~$129). If you use Adobe/Capture One/Photoshop as your hub and only need a few ON1 plugins, buying the individual plugins or the plugin bundle is more economical.
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Dear Scott, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for all your tutorials on ON1. I have been watching them for about a week and have learned so much. Thank you very much.
I am really looking forward to the new version of ON1. Brilliance AI will simplify my workflow a lot.
Thanks so much for your kind words, and for watching my videos. Have fun!!
Looks like an interesting upgrade, the increased speed will be appreciated.
The interface refinements sound good, but for a casual user like myself will be a bit of a learning curve.
Looking forward to any tutorials you do, especially workflow with this new interface
For those of us that have used ON1 for years, there'll be an adjustment to the UI for sure. I'll do my best to demystify when I get access to the software.
I have used your coupon and committed myself to v2024: $67.99USD inc NY sales tax. That's less than I paid last year, when I didn't use a VPN to locate myself I the US. Thanks.
Great! And thank you for the support!
Excellent intro to ON1. Looks like a really good upgrade this year. For me the speed, new UI, highlight recovery will tempt me to break out the credit card 😀
As a long time ON1 user this 2024 release looks like a winner! Really enjoy and will look forward to your videos when you break down the ON1 features for us . THANKS!
Thanks, Stelios!
I watched your RUclips video on the new version. Great, thanks. After you first added Brilliance AI to the photo and showed the result you are able to fine tune the photo. After fine tuning can the final result be saved as a template or preset that can be batched and applied to ANY number of photos afterwards? Is there more control on people in photos - control of not the whole person but just faces specifically? I want to batch lots of photos to brighten faces because I shoot many events without flash and other software will adjust photos but I need all the same adjustments with face brightening. Thanks guys!
The experiments I've done with Brilliance AI and presets... when you save a Preset, have *only* Brilliance AI (and optionally Lens Corrections) set in Develop and also select the Locals but *not* the masks. If you want to control the faces themselves, that's better done with Portrait AI, which you can also include in presets. For AI-based presets, don't include the masks (let ON1 find the person and apply your settings). HTH.
Hi Scott. I wasn't gonna renew ON1 2024, but after watching your video, I decided to go for it. Of course, I used your link.
Cool, thanks for the support!
This year, more than any previous year, I just can’t wait!
Yep! Thanks for watching, Caroline.
Thank you Scott: Great video and the Code worked perfect on the upgrade. Have a super day.
Glad it helped
My question is this. Can it recognize grayscale TIFF files? The 2023 version couldn't, which is something my old copy of Photoshop CS6 can do, as can Affinity Photo 2.
Quite odd ... I wouldn't have expected issues with specific types of TIFFs. That's a question for ON1 (if you haven't asked them already).
Is it possible to batch edit portrait photographs in On1 23 or 24?
Yes, you can batch process portraits. The adaptive presets in Photo RAW 2023 help with this as well. I recall ON1 has posted video tutorials on this topic.
@@ScottDavenport thank you. I’ll look
I will be getting MAX for sure, as I have found the piecemeal nature of 2022/203 a royal pain in the butt!
Cool. Have fun!
Well, I was thinking here comes more hype from On1- time to refill the coffers by issuing a new "gotta-have" upgrade. But you may have reversed my thinking on this. Good info you have provided here and you seem genuinely impressed. I guess I'll rethink it. Thank you.
Sure, Jer. When the software becomes available, get a free trial. Try it yourself and see how it works with your workflow. Then decide.
Looking forward to you getting your hands on the product and trialling it for us on your own images. The Brilliance AI teasers seem to mask simply into sky and non-sky segments or portrait subject and background. What happens for images that need more sophisticated masking? Mask AI, introduced in ON1 2023, also looked great in the teasers, but turned out to be very hit or miss. For many images, the performance was poor and it was more time-efficient to use a different masking approach and that didn't change with the minor upgrades through the year. In fact, the upgrade that introduced foreground and background as segments seemed to result in a lot of images only having those options in mask AI, not the more sophisticated regional masking which made Mask AI sound so promising. Speed improvements and an improved search interface will be welcome though. No sign of any changes in the blemish removal tools, which is an area I have always struggled with in ON1.
I'm also looking forward to trying Brilliance AI out on more "complex" images, or ones with less-obvious subjects or segments.
Thanks Scott, looks to be a really big upgrade to the program. You mentioned key commands for the Perfect Brush - one action that I've never discovered the key command for is switching to 'View" from, say, a brush or any other mouse change. Is there one?
The 'Z' key jumps to the Zoom tool... my standard "get me back to square 1" hotkey. You can also customize the hotkeys in Photo RAW to your liking. scottdavenportphoto.com/blog/set-these-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-in-on1-photo-raw-2021-right-now
@@ScottDavenport Thanks - that did it!
Danke Scott!
Sure thing!
Hmm, Brilliance AI above Tone & Colors? I always start with developing with Tone & Colors (and selecting appropriate camera profile) before anything else. Thought it made more sense to have it at the top. What is your take on this? Once available, would you recommend applying Brilliance AI before or after Tone and Colors? Thank you so much for sharing.
I don't know enough to answer with authority yet. The teaser videos don't show if Brilliance AI makes changes to Tone & Color in Develop, or does that all through the Local Adjustments. Or if Brilliance AI "decides" to change the camera profile. Waiting to get actual stick time with the software.
This from a guy who drives a standard shift car.
The question is, how much creative decision do I want to concede to a machine? I get that brilliance will take some of the heavy lifting out of the process, but to what end and to whose idea of a ‘perfect” picture?
My ideal 24 editor would have all the existing ON1 23 features, but with a new, improved, easier to negotiate interface.
Just some questions.
At the risk of answering a rhetorical question ... the answer is zero. If Brilliance AI isn't for you, don't use it. Or use it sparingly, or at lower strength... or to your point, to the level (all, some, none) that aligns with _your_ vision for _your_ photography. And hopefully some of the UI changes in ON1 2024 help with the easier to navigate bit.
Not a great answer to a legitimate question. If you don’t like it don’t use it. I have money and more importantly time invested in ON1 and would like to see it improved, but not radically changed. I also have Luminar Neo and the DXO suite, both which I use and while not perfect, do the trick.
On thing ON1 could improve is its crash rate which is far above the other two. In fact I’ve never had a crash with them while ON1 does quite often. This on a Mac with lots of RAM.
I tested your coupon code for the MAX UPGRADE option - which is listed at $149.99. With coupon it costs $143.99. So, how does 20% only reduce the price by $6.00 ?? Are they applying the 20% discount to the $179.99 full price - no upgrade discount recognized?
Thanks for the note. I’ll check with ON1 on that.
Does Brilliance AI work well with JPG images? The majority of mine are .jpg.
ON1 has said anything either way. Can't say with authority, though I'm hopeful that Brilliance AI will work on an image type (RAW, TIFF, JPG, whatever).
@@ScottDavenport If Brilliance AI works better with RAW files, one could use Topaz Jpeg to RAW for all the Jpeg photos, then to Brilliance AI. . . . Also I am needing to enhance (maybe with Brilliance Ai) 11 hours of 60-year-old 8mm movies, all Tiff Image sequences from a pro film scanner -- one .tiff image for each movie film frame. Possibly could batch process all movie frames through the software.
Not keen on the automagic single slider version of b* AI - that's what made me drop the Skylum subscription. The detailed editing with B* AI seems like a less capable of the auto masking in Lightroom / ACR. With pricing being this crazy high when you want both standalone and plugins, then I don't think I'll renew. The 20% off would help, but it just seems excessive compared to what I pay for Lightroom/Photoshop. It doesn't get anywhere near the same value.
Hi Mads ... sure, fair. If Brilliance AI isn't for you and you're an Adobe-centric user, selective choice of an ON1 plugin or two makes more sense for your workflow.
Sounds like lots of improvements that were needed. The face masking is terrible - currently - you can’t separate the mask for each thing - eyes, lips etc - but the new version doesn’t have AI like photoshop can add wings or a limb that’s missing etc. definitely needs more presets
Haven't seen anything suggesting separation of masks within a face for PortraitAI.
have noise and sharpening been updated in 2024
I haven't heard anything about changes in those areas. I also haven't seen the new software yet.
I've never really warmed to Photo Raw despite the fact that I was always updating to the latest version. Especially its ability to mask things did not convince me, for that I always prefer Affinity Photo.
Thanks Scott
There's too much redundancy in the user interface (UI), so convoluted, making user experience (UX) so frightfully confusing for the casual/occasional user.
Over the years as more features got added, the UI became more unwieldy. It's as if tool icons, panels and buttons were randomly thrown around the screen without giving much thought. 😢
Hopefully this is a step in the direction of consolidating functions. There is some value to having certain tools always at your fingertips, less interruption to one's workflow. Though the mask group 'sprawl' was unnecessary and I'm glad that's getting addressed.
ON1 Photo RAW - jack of all trades, master of none. That's been my experience for a couple of years. Everything with that software is just mediocre, e. g. the quality of the RAW conversion, the perspective correction, the somewhat clunky user interface, to name but a few. Oh yes, and we all have heard and seen those affirmations that everything has been vastly improved by ON1 marketing people ad nauseam, but basically they sell you the same stuff over and over again and you'll be hard pressed to find real improvements or enhancements. Instead, ON1 Photo RAW overwhelms users with the sheer quantity of features and underwhelms with their quality and implementation.
Yah, but, they increased the price by about $100.00.
For MAX yes, because you're also getting the moral equivalent of Photo RAW (~$99) and all the plugins (~$129). If you use Adobe/Capture One/Photoshop as your hub and only need a few ON1 plugins, buying the individual plugins or the plugin bundle is more economical.