Hey everyone, I’m out at the Great Smoky Mountains Photo Summit this week, but I wanted to let you in on the big news. ON1 Photo 10 has officially been released and if you pre-ordered you should be getting your emails with download instructions today. Everyone here at the conference is having a total blast, and I’m amazed at how much excitement there is around this release. People are truly excited about getting the new version (either that or they’re being really nice to me) 😉
What’s New in Photo 10?
Of course you can head over to the ON1 site to find out what’s new. But here’s a quick list of my favorites:
- Effects has totally been redesigned from the ground up and is much easier and faster to add your favorite style and effect to your photos.
- Effects has brand new Color Grading and Dehazing presets.
- Browse is even faster, and has new features like Smart Albums and a lot of other little tweaks to make it easier to use
- Portrait is faster and the face-finding process is simpler than ever.
- Black and White has been rolled up in to the Effects app. Same settings, same features, but now you can stay in one app to add all effects and styles to your photos.
- When you jump to ON1 from Lightroom, now you can stay in ON1 and move to any app you’d like without having to go back to Lightroom.
- Social Sharing built right in.
- Enhance works better for quick edits and adjustments to your photos
- The entire interface and performance is just, well, smoother, faster, and snappier than ever.
Crazy Amounts of Training
Part of the reason I’m really excited about Photo 10 is that I wanted to make sure that training was a big part of this release. I see and talk to a lot of photographers throughout the year, and I know that workflow (especially with some of their favorite third-party plug-ins like ON1) is always a concern. Most people I talk to already use Lightroom and sometimes Photoshop. What I find people really want is to know where this all fits in.
So I created 10 short courses to really make Photo 10 useful.
• First, I created a “ON1, Lightroom, Photoshop… Which One Do I Use?” course. I think this is probably going to be one of the most popular. It answers some of the most common questions I get. Which edits do you do in various apps. You have Lightroom, you have Photoshop, and you have ON1. So where do you do Noise Reduction? Or cropping? Or lens corrections… etc… I’m really proud of this course because I think it’ll help relieve a lot of confusion I see.
• Next, I created a “Complete Guide” course for every app. This is done in the style that I train, so I tend to show you the way features work, but more importantly the way that I use them.
• Finally, I created a “Perfect Workflow” course for Landscapes and portraits and overall photo organizing and browsing. The workflow courses show my workflow from start to finish using Lightroom and then in to ON1. Or in the case of browsing and organizing, using ON1 first and then in to Lightroom.
A Cool Moment for Me Personally
I’m coming up on my first full year at ON1, so this is the first release since I’ve been on the ON1 team. While they’ve always had a killer team, it’s been really cool for me to get a lot of my feedback and thoughts in to the apps. At the end of the day, I want photo editing apps that I want to use. And it’s just a lot of fun to really make an impact.
If you haven’t pre-ordered already, I hope you’ll take at look at the brand new Photo 10. I’m really proud of what the entire team at ON1 has done in this past year. There’s a ton of talented people there, and they work tirelessly to bring you incredible photo editing tools. I’m truly honored to work with all of them, and I’d love it if you’d take a look at the brand new version.
Here’s the link to find out more. Have a good one! 🙂
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
I updated to On 1 Photo 10 and it is great!!! I’ll prefer the previous Resize module, I’m glad that it will be back soon. Recently, I prepared a book in the Book Module in LR6 from images edited with LR6 and On1 Perfect Effects 9.5 to be uploaded to Blurb. Some of the images were on JPEG format and those that were edited with On1 were TIFF or PSD files. I tried to upload a book to Blurb using the Book Module from LR6 and I wasn’t able to uploaded it due to incompatibility and transparency problems. I converted the TIFF and PSD files to be JPEG and reload them to LR6 and substitute the image on the pages. I uploaded the book to Blurb but again without success. I was help by the Blurb tech support and they suggested that I created a PDF file from the Book module. I created the book as a PDF file for the cover and the pages. Then I uploaded the book project and finally I was successful. In the Book Module do I have to use only the files as JPEG in order to upload the book to Blurb? Thanks, Alberto
Matt: Matt from Sayreville! I have attended your talks in NYC and enjoyed them as well as the videos on ON1 Photo I downloaded (correctly) the software -it loaded –in Browse thumbnails from selected file came up–I clicked and got big boxes–tried different files -same thing. Started from scratch same things. Contacted On1 tech support and costumer support over a week ago-No Response. No phone number. I am a long term owner of PerfectSuite (and loved it) . Unfortunatley I deleted 9.5 when I installed. Now I am unable to process photos. what can I do? Can you give me a phone number? Jim L. from NJ
Hi Matt. I’ve now updated to On1 Photos 10 and love what you guys have done with it.
I’m also finding, as usual, your video training to be an invaluable tool to make the most of the software.
I have a question please on Browse. I totally get it to use the star rating to filter the keepers to send over to Lightroom, which is what I do.
However, how can I remove the rubbish, non-keepers from my disk? Permanantly remove
They are just sitting there taking up space and I need to be rid of them.
Can you advise a way to achieve this please?
Many thanks, Frank
Hi Frank. You could simply press the Delete key and that’ll move them to the trash. Or you could 1-star or “Reject” them. Then when you’re done, filter by the rejects/1-star and delete them all at once.
I love Photo 10 already! I have just returned from China with some very hazy/smoggy photographs. The dehazing filter is excellent.
It is faster than the older version and I look forward to going through your tutorials to take advantage of it even more – when I recover from my jet-lag.
Hi Matt
Why do I have to keep activating my copy of On1 Photo 10?
It happens every time I relaunch. Is it a Mac thing?
Hey Martin – if you have an tech or customer support issues it’s best to go straight to them. Here’s the link: http://www.on1.com/company/contact/
I tried to find the “ON1, Lightroom, Photoshop… Which One Do I Use?” course on the website before purchasing, but I didn’t see it. Can you direct me to it? Thanks very much.
Works fine for me. Browser initially took some time to populate the thousands of pictures i have in my lightroom collection but once it did that it works fine. I really like being able to go between all the apps now without having to close it and then open it again. Effects I was worried at first it was going to be hard to find the presets I use a lot in there but its been great and Im having a lot of fun using it. Good job everyone.
Using windows 7 64bit, 16 gig ram, i7 2600 intel
Hi Matt ,
Looking forward to seeing your final images from the Great Smokey Mountains , better yet… your workflow used in Photo 10 to achieve your final results. Hence the reason for my post.
I have gone through your in depth courses which explains the tools, however, are you planning to provide more advanced lessons going more in depth through practical application, such as you did with “Your Photo, Our Look”? I would pay for more advanced courses such as this.
Your thoughts please.
Thank you,
Steve
Hey Steve. So what do you mean by advanced. I talked about nearly everything I know in those videos. There’s not much left other than specific image-by-image workflow. The workflow classes were supposed to be the advanced stuff. I honestly don’t do much more than I do in the Your Photo Our Look series, so if you let me know what “more advanced” means and what you’re not learning, I can see if there’s something we can do. Thanks!
I have been trying to work with the new version 10 for a few days. Cannot go through more than about 10 photos in browser without crashing. You guys met your deadline, but I would have appreciated more QA. I assume a fix will be coming, so I will wait a few weeks before asking for a refund. I assume this is a memory, Video card, or similar issue that is typical in releases, so I eagerly await the update.
November 1 and I’m still waiting for my e-mail with download instructions
I think it’s crazy that they took out applying the effect on a new layer out on Effects when used as a plug-in. Sure we can always cmd/ctrl+j before we use the plug-in but it’s now an added step….
I agree James. I’ll carry the torch from here 🙂 Thanks!
Hey Matt, I hope you’re enjoying the Smoky Mountains foliage.
I received my email and installed Photo 1o today. I watched a couple of videos; then, jumped right in to Photo 10. It has a clean interface, great presets, tons of options for editing, and that’s just what I discovered after about 2 hours. I’m anxious to watch more of the tutorials and start editing my Fall photos.
Hey Matt,
I’ve just got my pre-order late last night so I haven’t installed it yet, but looking forward to watching your videos. I always learn so much from you! Have fun in the Smoky Mountains!
Dennis
Thanks Dennis! It was a blast!