What Happened to the Portrait Module in ON1 Photo RAW?

Chris Smith

• September 29, 2018 23:57

On1 portrait was taken from us after we paid for it, and was never replaced as a free update as promised below:

"What Happened to the Portrait Module in ON1 Photo RAW?

ON1 Photo RAW does not include the portrait module ON1 users have known from older versions. In the future, we will add each of the features from ON1 Portrait to ON1 Effects (part of ON1 Photo RAW). As of now, this is scheduled in one of our free updates for Photo RAW. The update will include face-based skin retouching and automatic eye and mouth enhancements."

 

Now they are adding "Portrait" with the new paid update as if it is a new feature.

I have been paying every year for these incremental updates, and just before they announce the new version, the previously purchased version starts to lag and crash to the point that I won't use it. The new features can easily be accomplished with Photoshop  and Lightroom, which any serious photographer already has. $80 is not much of a discount for the minimal new features.

It still does not include an easily usable browser. You have to plow through folders to find your images, and when you have over 300,000 it is not worth it. Lightroom lets you choose any of your cameras, lenses, years and much more, and cataloging hundreds of thousands of pictures is effortless.

 

I am now retired, on fixed income, and editing my life's work. I would love to be able to do this without a subscription and will look for alternatives. $79 a year is a subscription, even though you call it an upgrade, for features that you probably already have access to.

 

I have software such as zbrush which, after over 10 years has never charged for an upgrade.

 

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• Official comment

  

  James

  • October 05, 2018 18:33

  The Portrait module was discontinued, and the functionality of this module was merged to the Develop/Effects modules of the Photo Raw 2018. However, we are bringing the Portrait module back in the new Photo Raw 2019. To learn more about the new fixes and features coming in this version, please see:

  https://www.on1.com/products/photo-raw/ 
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  Vinny Giannino

  • October 01, 2018 01:41

  I don't do portraits so it doesn't affect me as it would you but in 2018 there is a skin retouching section in either develop - show more or in effects as a filter and there are both a magic eye fixer and a toothbrush under local adjustments - more. I'm posting this here just in case you didn't find them.

  Yes, there will be a portrait module in 2019 and unfortunately it is a paid upgrade. I am not on a fixed income yet but I am cheap and think that if money is/was an issue it is best to upgrade every 2 or 3 years so that it costs less unless you absolutely need something an update has.

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  Les Cornwell

  • October 01, 2018 14:08

  Coming from v.10.5, I purchased ON1 Photo RAW 2017 and found out the Portrait module was missing. So besides 2017, I still use v.10.5 when I want to do some work on portraits. I did not buy into 2018, because I understood the Portrait module would still be missing. Now 2019 is announced, and the Portrait module is back. So I preordered again.

  Although I had skipped 2018, I got 2018.5 immediately after preordering 2019. I have installed it, and am getting acquainted with the tools again, but I'm eagerly awaiting 2019, precisely for portraits.

  So you can indeed easily skip an update, especially when the developers take a route different from where you want to go. :)

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