Using ON1 Photo RAW with Apple® Photos
ON1 Photo RAW versions 2021 and earlier integrate tightly with Apple Photos (for Mac OS only) and provides a seamless experience for enhancing your images.
Important Note: ON1 Photo RAW 2022 only functions as a standalone application and does not support Apple Photos. Starting with version 2022, plugin support is only available when using the products in the Professional Plugin Bundle 2022.
If you have Photos on your computer when you install ON1 Photo RAW 2021/2020/2019, the appropriate plugin will be installed, but you will need to manually activate it in order to use it. To do so, go to Apple’s System Preferences and click on the Extensions icon. In the Extensions pane, click on Photos, then check the ON1 Photo RAW 2021/2020/2019 option. This will let you send images from Apple Photos to Photo RAW. (File Sharing must also be turned on in System Preferences for this to work.)
Catalina System Preferences:
Mojave System Preferences:
Go to Apple’s System Preferences and click on the Extensions icon
Ensure the box is checked under your version of ON1 Photo RAW
To enable File Sharing, access the Sharing folder icon from Apple's System Preferences, and make sure File Sharing is turned ON.
Ensure that the box next to File Sharing is checked
To edit an image in ON1 Photo RAW 2020/2019 follow these steps:
1. Select the image you wish to edit in Photos.
2. Click on the Edit button:
3. On the right side of the window, you’ll see an Extensions button. Click that button, and choose ON1 Photo RAW 2020/ 2019. (You can switch between all of the Edit tabs once your image is in Photo RAW.)
4. Your image will then open in ON1 Photo RAW 2020/2019:
After your changes have been made, press the "Done" button on the bottom right.
5. Your image will then open back up in Apple Photos.
Press "Save Changes" to save:
TROUBLESHOOTING
If you have Apple Photos on your computer when you install ON1 Photo RAW 2021/2020/2019, the appropriate plug-ins should be installed automatically. If you are not seeing ON1 Photo RAW 2021/2020/2019 as an option in your Extensions after installing, please contact our Technical Support team.
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I wish I had read how uncooperative Apple photos is with ON1. I have followed the settings and can get one photo in ON1 at a time. Have not discovered how to have a group that I can compare and work with. Windows was seamless.
I set all that was instructed in self help still can't seam to find my Apple Photo Drive can you help me.
Thanks - works fine for me!
Got Apple Photos (2.0 3161.4.140) on MacOS (10.12) to work for me, resulting in the purchase in Raw 2020.5 (14.5.1.9231)
The extension worked fine with ON1 2021 but is not supported with ON1 2022. Initially I thought this to be a real drawback but in hindsight I must admit it is actually not so bad at all. Even better, I’m now quit content with it. Please allow me to explain.
When the extension was working my workflow was actually a mess. I was importing files from the camera into Apple Photos, then a second time into Dropbox (I do this so I have an automatic back up of every original photo sorted by date and time taken) and then I imported again to an external drive using ON1.
Subsequently I edited some with Apple some with ON1, which inevitably led to maintaining 3 different main libraries. Which turned my 15K photos into 45K. Add to it all sidecars etc and you can understand it was a mess.
ON1 2022 more or less forced me to rethink. I continued using Apple as I was familiar with its library and albums structure whilst the ON1 structure had to “grow” on me. But with time passing by I got more proficient with ON1 I started to realize that ON1 library system can do so much more. Now that the Apple extension is gone I have (ON1 people will like this I guess) dumped Apple photos. Kept us archive fir the older photos but I migrated every single photo from last 3 years from Apple to the ON1 library, re-indexed, re-catalogued (which toke some time) and basically converted fully to ON1.
The Apple extension is gone but as a side effect it made me switch 100% to ON1.
Perhaps food fir thought fir those struggling with same dilemma I had
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