The range of the adjustments has been increased, and now you can make negative adjustments as well as positive, as you can with Lightroom. The icons for adjustments in the Enhance module are replaced by sliders, à la Lightroom. An icon in the upper right of each layer allows you to apply a layer mask, while the Overall Settings panel allows you to add a mask to the entire layer stack as well as adjust the overall opacity of the entire stack. The Filters panel on the left of the Effects workspace is much more intuitive. The supplied presets are now more manageable, and they can be edited and updated. Significant changes under the hood are found in the Effects, Enhance, and Portrait modules. The user interface overall looks cleaner and more up to date, particularly the Browser module. This latter change turns out to be a good move as it allows other effects to be easily layered into a black-and-white conversion. The previous Black and White module is now a set of presets in the Effects module. Perfect Resize is now incorporated into the Export tool in each of the modules, or as a standalone if you chose that option during installation. The tabs to modules are gone from the upper right of the workspaces and now appear in boxes in a “bumper” on the far right. The most striking changes are those to the user interface. And no longer are any of the Photo 10 modules available from the File >Automate menu. Better yet, the Effects, Enhance, and Portrait modules are available from the Photoshop Filters menu where you would expect to find them. After installation, Photo 10 is again available as a Photoshop Extension in the Window dropdown menu. I would recommend doing both of these options. During installation you are given the option to leave your previous version, and to install Perfect Resize as a standalone program as well as having it available in Photo 10.

ON1 Photo 10 is available for Mac and Windows computers and installs as a standalone as well as a plug-in for Lightroom, Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements.

At least it doesn’t feel that Photo 10 is being “dumbed down” for new users like the Adobe programs, although the changes in Photo 10 will likely be appreciated more by new than by previous users. As a long-time user, I found the changes disorienting initially, as I did with recent changes to Lightroom and Photoshop CC, but over time it gets easier. The renaming marks significant changes in the look and use of the program, although underneath, much remains the same. First, the name: ON1 Photo 10 is the successor to onOne Perfect Photo Suite 9. The release of ON1 Photo 10 brings major changes, not only to its name, but to the program and the modules it contains.

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