For years, my photo editing workflow, like that of many photographers, had been a frustrating juggling act. I’d use Lightroom for organizing and basic RAW development, then round-trip to Photoshop for any serious layer-based work, and finally call on a handful of plugins for specific creative effects. Each step adds complexity, creates massive intermediate TIF files that bloat storage, and fragments the creative process.
In my search for a more streamlined solution, I started taking a closer look at ON1 Photo RAW. I initially dismissed it as just another editor, but the more I explored, the more I realized it holds some genuinely surprising capabilities just beneath the surface. It’s not just about the features you see on a comparison chart. This isn’t another exhaustive feature list. We are going ‘Full Throttle’ on a series of pages that will cover everything you need to know about using ON 1 Effects Presets and associated functions.
They’ll be ‘tagged’ as “Focus #” the first in the series will be “Focus 1 The Use of LUTs in ON 1 Photo Editing”. The primary aim of these ‘Focus’ articles is to provide all the posts necessary to take someone from having a marginal knowledge of the activity to how it is best addressed in ON 1 Photo Raw.