September 19, 2019 | 12795 Views | By Patrick Smith

ON1 Photo RAW 2020 Public Beta – Now Available

Today we announce the availability of the public beta of the new ON1 Photo RAW 2020. This new version is the first product to be released in ON1’s new line of creative products announced in August. This professional-grade photo organizer, raw processor, layered editor, and effects app, is available as an all-in-one photography application.
Photography Your Way, The ON1 Difference.
Most mainstream photo software solutions take away control of your photography by locking away the organization and editing of your photos into closed systems. These solutions metaphorically hold your photos hostage by only allowing access to the tools and features you need as long as you pay up and stay within their system. You even have to store your photos in their cloud system to use them.

“ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is full of under-the-hood performance updates for speed. It also includes some killer new AI tools and totally new features requested by our customers. We are also super excited to be working together with SmugMug and X-Rite to push those exciting new features,” says Dan Harlacher, VP of Product,
With ON1 Photo RAW 2020, you have control of what’s yours and what matters to you with photography – it’s Photography Your Way. The ON1 difference is to provide an open system keeping you in control of your photos and give you choices in the organization, storage, editing, creative style, and how you purchase our products. We will never force you into a subscription model.
“ON1 Photo RAW 2020, is the flagship product to our complete creative ecosystem of apps and services for photographers. As photography changes, we need to offer a complete solution to our customers and be on all the devices where photography takes place. It’s a very exciting time for ON1 and our customers. For the first time, ON1 will be wherever your photography is, on the desktop, in the field, in the studio, in the cloud or on your phone.” President and CEO, Craig Keudell adds.
What’s New in Photo RAW 2020

New AI Match — Match how your raw photos look to what you saw on the back of the camera.
New AI Auto Tone — The new algorithm does a much better job on all types of photos, also control the amount of auto tone you want. By analyzing thousands of photos, the algorithm has learned how to do an even better job, especially on tough images.
New Speed & Performance Updates — Opening raw files in Edit is up to two times faster, and brushing is smoother, even on integrated graphics cards.
New Hottest and Trending Presets — Over 100 new looks and styles curated from today’s hottest photographic trends. We also added tons of new skies, backgrounds, and textures for your masking pleasure.
New SmugMug Integration — Select photos and videos, then publish them to any of your SmugMug galleries. Even create new galleries and control the size of the photos you upload.
New Custom Camera Profiles — Get predictable, natural color results by creating custom profiles for your camera and lights. We have partnered with X-Rite, the leader in color management to make this easy. Photograph an X-Rite target with your camera, then import it into ON1 Photo RAW, then send it to the X-Rite Camera Profiler software to build a custom camera profile.
Better Noise Reduction — The new state-of-art noise reduction algorithm can remove noise while maintaining detail, even with today’s ultra high-ISO cameras.
New Color Balance Filter — Remove a cross color cast from the shadows or highlights or create unique duotone or tritone tints by adjusting the color and brightness of the highlights, mid-tones or shadows.
New Weather Filter — With the new Weather filter in Effects, you can add rain, snow, and fog to your photos to create a realistic atmosphere.
New Channel Mixer Filter — For precise black and white conversions, channel swaps for infrared, or shift entire color ranges.
New Sun Flare Filter — Add realistic sun spots, lens flares, and bokeh to your shots all powered by real photographs from renowned photographer and educator Matt Kloskowski.
New Print Module — Print contact sheets, a wall portrait, or tile multiple photos into package prints, the improved print dialog can handle it all. Easily print individual images. Also, print multiple photos on one piece of paper to create packages like 2 5×7’s or 4 4×5’s. Add watermarks and sharpen before you print.
New Timeline Albums — Exploring your photos by date has never been easier. The new automatic timeline albums organize your photos by year, month, and day.
New Map View — View where your photos were taken on a map, explore photo locations, and add location metadata to photos that don’t have GPS metadata. Even search by location address to find photos quickly, without having to add additional metadata.
New Focus Mask Overlay — Now you can view what’s in-focus in our photos easily. The new Focus Mask overlay marks the areas of best focus with green so you can compare similar photos and pick out the sharpest photo quickly.
More Language Support — ON1 Photo RAW is now localized into eleven languages, giving many more photographers access to the best photo editor out there. It now supports English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.
New Enhancements — Before/after image preview splitter, control preset opacity from the preset browser, Windows installer now gives the option to install on other drive, UNC paths on Windows, Lossy Canon CR3 support, Visualize brushstrokes with a red overlay.
New Camera Support Added — Canon Powershot G7X Mark II, Canon Powershot G5X Mark II, Canon 90D EOS M6 MK 2, Sony A7R IV, Sony RX100, Sony NEX-C3, Leica V-Lux 5
New Lens Support Added – We will have the final list announced very soon!

What’s Ahead – 2020 Lifecycle Features
Each year we release several free updates to ON1 Photo RAW. Version 2020 is no exception. Here are the features currently scheduled to be included as updates in 2020.

New ON1 Photo Mobile Integration — Capture raw photos on your smartphone using the pro-level controls you are familiar with on your interchangeable-lens camera. Photo editing tools for color & tone, enhancing shadows, removing distractions, or adding vignettes, from ON1 Photo RAW will also be available in the new ON1 Photo Mobile 2020 app coming early next year.
New ON1 Sync Service Integration — View and edit photos on all your devices without requiring you to store them in the cloud or a closed system. You simply choose to put your photos on your laptop, desktop, external drive, cloud or mobile phone, and ON1 Sync will take care of the rest. This new service will also sync albums, presets, and more between all your devices. ON1 Sync 2020 gives you the benefits of the cloud for less and allows you to control where your photos live.
New AI Integrations — Includes new technologies for faster photo organization, sky replacement, object recognition, color enhancements, and skin retouching.
New ON1 Video Integration — Use the powerful browser in ON1 Photo RAW to download, preview, and manage our video files as well as your stills. Then seamlessly send them to ON1 Video 2020, the only video editor built specifically for photographers coming soon.

Supported File Formats.
ON1 Photo RAW 2020 supports raw files for over 800 cameras. Supported file formats also include JPEG, TIF, PSD, PSB, PNG, and DNG. Photo RAW 2020 also continues to work seamlessly within current photography workflows. Version 2020 can be used as a plug-in for Adobe® Lightroom® Classic CC, Photoshop®, and Apple Photos without purchasing an additional plug-in version. ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is also perfect for those looking for a standalone photo editing workflow solution.
Price and Availability.
ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is available today for download as a free public beta from our website. Previous owners of any ON1 product can pre-order the upgrade for just $79.99 and those who don’t own earlier versions of ON1 can pre-order the full version for $99.99. For a limited time, ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is bundled with a pre-order bonus that includes an additional 100 pack of presets covering some of the hottest looks and trends. A single purchase of ON1 Photo RAW 2020 works with both Mac and Windows and is a perpetual license (own it forever) for activation on up to five computers. The full release of ON1 Photo RAW 2020 is currently scheduled for the end of October. A free 30-day trial will be available at that time.