ON1 Effects

ON1 Effects is a professional photo editor that incorporates amazing image layering effects and performant editing, including the liberty of working with it as a standalone application or integrated, as a plugin, into powerful and complex software solutions for image editing, such as Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Capture One, Affinity Photo, and Corel Paint Shop Pro.

The desktop application has a large file size, but despite that, it is optimized to run smoothly and not to use too much of your system's resources. As a result, you can use ON1 Effects in parallel with other image editing (and, potentially, resource-intensive) apps running onto your machine.

The tool can support a wide variety of image formats, it is capable of processing fast a lot of user input, as well as provide people with a plethora of editing effects, available customizations, color correction options, texturing methods and filters, etc.

Also, the program lets you selectively apply certain effects, generate custom image masks for editing light sources and shadows easier, and create your custom profiles (called 'presets') for easily reapplying the same modifications at a later date.

Using ON1 Effects, you can easily access, through additional payment, many integrated assets and effects. As such, you can add to your environment 10 'Warm & Airy' and 10 'Monochrome' presets, or 360 extra textures, presets, effects, and LUTs (Look Up Tables, for redefining the color mapping scheme that helps you edit your photos).

Nonetheless, even when in standard mode, the tool enables great flexibility when editing, thanks to its options to change parameters in the original effects, interactive GUI with simple instructions, responsive sliders, and well-organized menu bars. At the same time, the 'History' option is another element that adds value to this image editing application because you can easily return to a previous state of the editing process, at any moment.

To summarize, this application is a powerful instrument that could be useful for many types of users, both professional photographers and image editors, and beginners, who look for a good editing app that is qualitative, easy to get started with, and affordable.