Introducing the powerful new Edit Color filter in ON1 Photo RAW 2025, designed for ultra-precise color adjustments. Whether you want to make subtle corrections or bold changes, this tool lets you target specific color ranges without any masking required! Perfect for refining skin tones, enhancing the vibrancy of objects, or correcting hues, this filter is perfect for anyone looking to take control of their color.
2025BeginnerON1 Photo RAWEffectsDan Harlacher
On October 21, 2024 at 6:16 am Richard Berke wrote:
Hmmm… I like the controls with the circle/pie-slice and the visualize on/off button. Good for seeing where the effect will impact the image.
It’s interesting but disappointing to have this arrive as a new tool. It should have just been an improved interface within the masking tool > Color Range, with a generated mask. Similarly, it should be within Effects > Color Enhancer, Color Adjustment, and Replace Color.
The available adjustment sliders for Hue, Saturation and Lightness still limit the changes you can make within a narrow/adjacent Hue range. Yellow-Green, Orange-Red, Blues-Purples. I can’t, for example, edit the color to become something in a different band: shift leaves from green-yellow to orange-red as we transition deeper into autumn.
How does the lightness slider in this new Edit Color tool differ than brightness used in other tools? Is it just an inconsistent word choice? Like keep/paint versus drop/erase in masking?
The Replace Color filter already has select a target color (actually functions as a source color), and then sliders for Hue, Sat, Brightness pertaining to the replacement color (Color Change, which should be termed: target in my opinion). The interface is a bit awkward though for the color you want to change over to. The interface there with a grid, and a rainbow and sliders is a much older convention. The newer circle and pie slice would be better.
Also, if you want to match a color of one object to another, such as garments of one person to match another, today it’s still clumsy. We need an eyedropper to select the color of what you’re trying to have as the result, and apply that to the source object. Local > Paint with Color doesn’t accomplish this easily. The new Match Color filter is completely different than this focused purpose.