ON1 Software may not grab the headlines like Adobe, but its software is constantly improving, changing and adapting to the latest image-editing ideas.
ON1 Photo RAW is its flagship product and it’s the new name for what used to be called ON1 Perfect Suite. It’s shed a few pounds since the days when it was essentially just a plug-in collection, but it’s gained some new capabilities too.
This ON1 category contains tutorials from the old Perfect Photos suite and from the latest ON1 Photo RAW.
To be honest, I don’t use portrait enhancement plug-ins that much. It’s too easy to end up with something that looks like a porcelain doll rather than a real person. However, I do like shooting portraits, and I do realise that … Continue reading How to get started with OnOne Perfect Portrait
OnOne Software’s B&W tool doesn’t just create black and white pictures! You can use it to recreate a whole range of delicately-coloured vintage effects too, like this digital version of the gum bichromate process. To be honest, digital versions of … Continue reading Create a beautiful gum bichromate effect in Perfect B&W
OnOne Software’s Perfect Effects plug-in offers a huge selection of special effects which you can also combine and stack as layers. What’s more, each layer comes with its own layer mask which you can use to control the areas of … Continue reading Mask your effects with the Perfect Effects Masking Bug
OnOne Software doesn’t just provide one plug-in in Perfect Photo Suite, but several. Perfect Mask is the main tool for this tutorial, but the Perfect Effects plug-in finishes it off beautifully! I’ve got two confessions to make. One is that … Continue reading How to get perfect cutouts with Perfect Photo Suite!
Photographers are never happy. We couldn’t stop complaining about our dirty, faded colour transparencies when they were all we had, and we couldn’t wait to swap to nice, clean, everlasting digital images… only now they’re the norm, we miss our … Continue reading Create a dirty Kodachrome with Perfect Photo Suite!
OnOne’s Perfect Photo Suite has a number of different modules, rather like the Nik/Google Collection. In Perfect Photo Suite, though, you can access them all from a single, central interface, rather than loading them as separate plug-ins. For this walkthrough, … Continue reading How to apply graduated filters in Perfect Photo Suite
Focal Point 2 is available both on its own and as part of OnOne’s Perfect Photo Suite, a collection of image effects and tools which can be used as a Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture plug-in, but also works as a standalone application. You … Continue reading How to create depth of field effects with Focal Point 2
I really like the idea of OnOne Software’s Perfect Photo Suite. Thanks to its extensive layers, effects and focus tools, it seems to offer a lot of the features of Photoshop without having to get Photoshop itself. You can use … Continue reading Using Perfect Photo Suite effects
It’s all very well talking about life after Photoshop, and there are plenty of programs and plug-ins which can do magical things with your images… but you still need Photoshop (or Elements) to create layer montages. Don’t you? Actually, no. … Continue reading Layers without Photoshop: Perfect Layers in action
