ON1 Insider – A Sneak Peek at Advanced Search
- November 19, 2021
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Posted by Dan Harlacher
While raw processing is quite essential, so is photo organizing and searching for your photos. A lot of photographers struggle with finding the right image at the right time. We’re updating the way customers search their photo libraries in the next free update to ON1 Photo RAW 2022. Searching for the right photos gets a lot easier with the new Advanced Search dialog. It harnesses the power of a modern database to search the metadata through all of your photos. This new feature goes way beyond the basics to include searching on any combination of fields, with per-field operators and intelligent ranges. ON1 Photo RAW is the ultimate photo editing software for Mac and Windows.
15 Comments
David PriceNovember 19, 2021
Sounds very good, I am already looking forward to the upgrade 🙂
Carmen KNovember 19, 2021
I’m excited to have advanced search on the next upgrade. Fantastic! Thank you On1.
Jay HermanNovember 20, 2021
This looks great! Will you also be bringing back Smart Albums or some other way to automatically publish saved search results to Cloud Sync? I’ve been missing Smart Albums ever since they were taken away, but especially since I started using Cloud Sync.
Jay HermanNovember 20, 2021
I’ve already voted for the idea in Photo RAW project, and I hope others will too. https://www.on1.com/products/photo-raw/ideas/idea/return-the-smart-album-save-style-album/?coupon=BLACKFRIDAY
Roger GoughNovember 21, 2021
The new advanced search looks great, but in the video the quick search field appears to have been removed from the top of the screen. Can we please keep this too. Sometimes for example, a simple search using a file name, or part of the name, is all that is required. It would be better to be able to continue to do this without setting up an advanced search. Thanks!
greg.pearman@gmail.comNovember 23, 2021
Best new feature! Just what this app needed.
Peter PikulinNovember 23, 2021
Dan, this is going to be handy. Thx ON1!
Patrick SwaimNovember 23, 2021
Looks good. Thanks for moving this to the side pane and adding the ability to search for something other than equal in various search criteria. I was getting tired of building compound searches for something that was such a simple concept. Hopefully this takes us forward to the direction of return of smart albums and adding smart publish?
andrew josephNovember 23, 2021
I hope it will have a ‘not’ function. that’s about the only thing i miss from lightroom.
André HôteNovember 23, 2021
Most welcome feature if the recorded search presets is easy to recall as selection by file format is one I would use DAILY when large folders are at stake for quick selection. Then, I can always dream of being able to visualize file size on each thumnail so as to compare picture quality after resampling or changing format. While this ON1 advanced search has not been available on Adobe Bridge to the best of my knowledge, and thanks ON1, the easy sorting and file size visualization has been present on Bridge for ages, and I hope ON1 programmers after having designed powerful searches, will also keep in mind the great satisfaction for photographers to sort large folders in a quick fashion.
Ed AdamsNovember 23, 2021
Dan, Looks like a good use of search features for a db. I love that it extends to images not cataloged. Can’t wait.
PaulNovember 23, 2021
Very nice. Apart from focal length, is there a way to search for lens if the lens in question is not in the ON1 data base? I shoot Pentax, and the data base coverage is a bit flakey. In particular the HD DFA* 50mm f/1.4 (the top of the range fast 50) is not recognised by ON1. However, Lens ID “HD PENTAX-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW” is in the EXIF, so I am hoping it will be searchable.
Carlos Martinez RuizNovember 24, 2021
I think it’s great to have this resource.
I have a question, is there a limit to the size of the database. To manage several external disks in the search.
Regards
Carlos
Doug WelchNovember 26, 2021
Will be a great asset. Will it look for meta data entered by other photo processing software, or just ON1 apps?
By default It sounds as though it might find duplicates if keywords are specific i.e. scientific species names (nature photos)
Nice one ON1
Doug
Terry BarberNovember 26, 2021
Thank you, thank you. I was hoping this would happen. I used a similar program, but since I have converted to ON1 Raw from the beginning I have felt this was soely needed. Wonderful!
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