These 40 free presets for Lightroom, the ON1 All Seasons Adaptive presets for Lightroom, are the perfect solution for any season. These free Lightroom presets will help you bring your photos to life and showcase the beauty of each season in a unique and captivating way, whether you’re shooting in the heart of winter, the lush greenery of spring, the scorching heat of summer, or the crisp autumn air.

In each seasonal pack, you’ll find 5 AI-powered landscape presets and 5 AI-powered portrait presets. The presets use Lightroom’s AI-based masking to automatically enhance specific elements in your photos, such as color, tone, and contrast, to bring out the best in your photography. Whether you’re a professional photographer or just starting, these presets are easy to use and will help you achieve stunning results with just a few clicks.

If you love Lightroom presets, make sure to check out the ON1 Plugins for Lightroom! Our plugins for Lightroom offer a level of integration no other Lightroom plugin does, including working with multiple photos in editing, or batch processing photos. You can also try ON1 software for free for 14 days.

Today, Adobe® made some very interesting announcements around the future of Lightroom®. If you haven’t already heard, the Lightroom version people have used the last decade will now be known as Lightroom Classic CC. They also introduced a new product, which takes over the name Lightroom CC. Say what? Let’s dig a little deeper.

Disclaimer: Everything in this post is our own interpretation. By no means are we speaking on Adobe’s behalf. We are simply interpreting what we heard today. To read the details from Adobe directly, you can find them here.
Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC seem to be very different programs. Lightroom Classic CC is geared towards those with a desktop workflow while the new Lightroom CC looks like it’s mainly for those who want to use a mobile photography/Adobe cloud based workflow. Also any future version of Lightroom (Classic CC & CC) will not be available outside a subscription model.
Wait, what? Yes, that’s correct. There will no longer be a standalone perpetually licensed Lightroom version available for sale. Both versions of Lightroom will only be available as part of a subscription plan.
What We Know

• The new Lightroom CC is only available as a subscription and will no longer be available as a perpetual license
• The new Lightroom CC is not an upgraded Lightroom Classic CC. Lightroom CC is a new service that gives you access to your photos in the cloud you can then pull down and edit through a new and limited desktop app or in the browser based app
• There are now three different subscription plans for Lightroom CC
• There are many features lacking in the new Lightroom CC (HDR, pano, print to name a few)
• 20GB of cloud storage in the CC Photography Plan ($10/mo) is not enough storage for serious photographers so you will likely need to pay more for extra storage
• We will continue to support Lightroom Classic CC and keep our plug-ins working with it
• The new Lightroom CC does not support plug-ins

What We Don’t Know For Sure
There are a TON of questions out there on the Internet along with lots of confusion. Here are some of the more common questions we’ve seen.

• Do I have to store all of my photos in the Adobe Cloud and pay for all of that storage space in order to use Lightroom CC?
• Will Lightroom Classic CC (or Lightroom 6) be updated any further?
• What will happen when I need to update my operating system and Lightroom 6 no longer works?
• When will they add more features such as HDR, pano, print, etc to Lightroom CC, will it ever match what I can do in Lightroom Classic CC?
• Will there ever be a perpetual licensed version of Lightroom again?
• How does one migrate current Lightroom catalogs from Lightroom Classic to the new Lightroom CC?
• What happens to my photos if I use the new Lightroom CC and decide to cancel my Adobe subscription?

Know This About ON1
Our passion has always included three things—photography, building powerful photography apps, and taking care of our customers. We aren’t a giant corporation. We’re a small group of hard working individuals who care deeply about photography. We don’t have outside board members telling us how to run the business so they get the best return on their investment. From day one, we’ve been committed to doing it differently. Our company and our community are treated more like a family. The development of ON1 Photo RAW is completely based on what’s most important to our photography community.

The State of ON1 Photo RAW 2018
As you may or may not know, Photo RAW 2018 is currently available as a free public beta. We want every photographer out there to give it a test drive. We are actively improving each beta version as we drive towards the official release in a few weeks. Our goal with Photo RAW 2018 is to give photographers an integrated tool with accelerated photo management, precise photo development, hundreds of customizable photo effects, HDR, panos, masking and blending adjustments, layers, and much more – in one app.
We are getting closer to achieving this goal every day with the help of our community. As we drive towards the final release of Photo RAW 2018 we are committed to fixing as many issues reported by the community as possible before the final release goes out our door.
We also currently have a way for Lightroom customers to migrate to ON1 Photo RAW using a migration tool we developed. You can read more about that process here.
What’s Ahead for ON1 Photo RAW 2018
Here are some of the frustrating questions our customers ask all the time.

• Why do I have to sign up for a subscription to edit my photos?
• Why am I using two or three apps to edit my photos?
• Why must I catalog my photos? What if I just want to browse to my photos? What if I want both?
• Why do I need plug-ins to do special effects or HDR?
• Why can’t all my edits be non-destructive?
• Why can’t I choose the photos I keep in the cloud and choose the photos I keep on a hard drive? Why can’t I edit them the same way?
• Why are some photo apps so hard to learn?

Ever had any of these questions run through your mind? As fellow photographers we feel your pain. The answer to these questions and others is how we see the future at ON1. In fact, many are answered in the upcoming release of ON1 Photo RAW.
Think of having a single app to manage and edit your photos with the power of Photoshop-like features in a seamless non-destructive workflow. A single solution from one company where you get to choose YOUR preferred cloud service and aren’t forced into a subscription model. A solution that let’s YOU be in control of where YOUR photos are stored and how to work with them. This is our vision. The ON1 vision for Photo RAW 2018 and beyond.
We have built a great new foundation for innovation. Our development pace will only be increasing over the next year. We will be solving new problems in the fastest and most elegant ways. Imagine the day when you can truly combine multiple raw photos into a single non-destructive, re-editable composite with powerful features you currently need Photoshop® to do. Imagine managing your photo collection and finding the right photo at your fingertips without having to add laborious metadata. It’s just the tip of the iceberg for what we are planning and developing. With your input, we will prioritize what is most important. More on that below.
As we look into the future, we are more excited than ever and will continue to be a completely transparent company. What we build and how we build it is for everyone to see through the ON1 Photo RAW Project. We will continue to share with the world the features and improvements we are working on and continue to solicit customer feedback through customer driven channels. With your continued support, we will do our best to provide the photography software you want and allow you to own it how you want for many years to come.
Our Promise
We will never force you into a subscription only model and will always offer a perpetual license of our software. Don’t forget this. When you purchase ON1 Photo RAW 2018 you receive a perpetual license. That means the day you purchase ON1, you own it forever. No subscription. We are also cross platform (Mac and Windows) and allow you to install the app on up to five computers. Even with ON1 Plus (our membership offering that includes the software) you will always own the software – even if you choose not to renew your membership. We will always stand behind our products and if you ever feel you have not received the full value from ON1, contact us and we will make it right. We will continue to build the products and features YOU want and you can always let your voice be heard through the ON1 Photo RAW Project.
Thanks for reading. Also make sure to check out some of the following resources.

• Check out our good friend and Lightroom educator Matt Kloskowski’s post on Adobe’s announcement as well here
• 3 Steps for Moving from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW
• 10 Things Lightroom Users Need to Know About ON1 Photo RAW

Special note: In the release of ON1 Photo RAW 2019 we added the ability for customers to transfer their photos with raw processing and editing settings from Lightroom’s Develop module (including crop, retouching, and local adjustments) to ON1 Photo RAW 2019. That’s correct! The photos are also migrated non-destructively so they can be re-edited in ON1 Photo RAW 2019. Learn more about the Lightroom® Migration here.
Are you ready or thinking about making the switch from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW? If so, we want to make your transition as smooth as possible. There are two common ways to make the switch from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW and both depend on how you currently store your photos. I broke the most common method down into 3 steps to make it easier to follow along when making the switch from Lightroom. There is an alternate path (Path 2 below) that is even easier. Let’s begin!

Path 1
Remember, Lightroom is a non-destructive editor so all the metadata changes and the edits you’ve made are in Lightroom’s catalog file, not in the photos themselves. Fear not. We want you to maintain as much as you can from Lightroom so your time is not wasted. Our Lightroom Migration Assistant helps tremendously when your are ready to make the switch from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW. There are some key steps in this process to prepare first.

1. Find your photos – Connect any external drives or shares containing photos you want to migrate. Then use the Sync Folder command in Lightroom to make sure your Lightroom catalog and the actual files are up-to-date. This will add any photos that Lightroom is missing as well as remove broken links.
2. Pre-organize – Take this opportunity to remove any photos, virtual copies or collections you don’t care about. It’s also a good time to reorganize your folders if necessary. If you have multiple catalogs, rinse and repeat.
3. Make the Switch – Next install ON1 Photo RAW if you haven’t already. Then open Lightroom and go to the File > Plug-in Extras menu. Then select the Migrate Catalog to ON1 Photo. You will see a dialog that looks like this.

The Migration Assistant will add all of the top-level folders in the Folders pane in Lightroom to Cataloged Folders in ON1 Photo RAW. All of the photos inside of these folders will be cataloged
automatically. Any metadata changes made in Lightroom will be migrated as well.
Things to Note about Path 1

• What About Collections?
  Any normal collections, the ones you drag and drop photos into, and their contents will be copied over as Albums. If you have used collection sets, their organization will be maintained as well. Unfortunately Smart Collections will not be migrated, but you can create Smart Albums later, which are similar.
• What About My Edits from Lightroom?
  Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW are both non-destructive editors. Again, edits are stored as instructions and not pixels. While both apps do similar things, they also do similar things differently. ON1 can’t take the exact instructions Lightroom creates and produce the same results. This leads us to two additional options to consider when switching from Lightroom.

Option 1:
Make the switch from Lightroom without those edits.
Option 2:
Create copies with the edits applied to them.
If you create copies, the Migration Assistant will find any photos in Lightroom with edits and will create a copy in the format you desire. The copies are stored next to the original photos.
IMPORTANT
The migration process can take some time especially if you select the copy with Lightroom adjustments option. You can continue to use Lightroom and ON1 Photo during the migration process. The Migration Assistant is intended for one-time migration of catalogs, not continual syncing of changes. However, if you have more than one Lightroom catalog you can use the Migration Assistant again on each catalog to merge them into one ON1 Photo RAW installation.
Path 2
If you store and manage photos in a folder structure and your photos are then organized in sub-folders making the switch is VERY easy. This path also assumes any edits you have made to your photos are stored in the photos themselves, or copies of the original photos. This is the case if you have been using a normal pixel-editor like Adobe® Photoshop® or Photoshop Elements®. Simply open ON1 Photo RAW and browse to the location where your photos are stored. If you have any top-level folders (like your My Pictures folder) set it as a cataloged folder. Go to the File menu and select Add Cataloged Folder. This will add all of your folders and the photos in those folders to ON1 Photo RAW. Cataloging occurs in the background which extracts and catalogs the photos metadata as well as a screen-sized preview for each photo so you can search and move between photos lightning-fast pace. That’s it, you’re done.

Special note: In the release of ON1 Photo RAW 2019 we added the ability for customers to transfer their photos with raw processing and editing settings from Lightroom’s Develop module (including crop, retouching, and local adjustments) to ON1 Photo RAW 2019. That’s correct! The photos are also migrated non-destructively so they can be re-edited in ON1 Photo RAW 2019. Learn more about the Lightroom® Migration here.
I see lots of questions from Adobe® Lightroom® users who use ON1 Photo RAW for Effects; but find themselves using other features in ON1 Photo RAW more and more. There seems to be an increase in the number of people curious about switching from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW. So I put together this top ten list to help explain how ON1 Photo RAW was similar to Lightroom and how it is different. So if are considering switching from Lightroom, please read on. Lets get started!

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1. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW are non-destructive photo editors. That means when you edit a photo in either Lightroom or ON1, the edits are stored as instructions rather than changing the file on disk. This makes them both fast and safe for photo editing. They both support raw photos from hundreds of cameras as well as most of the file formats that photographers care about like JPG, TIF and PSD.
2. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW have robust file management tools for browsing, finding and managing your photos. In short, they share many of the same fundamental concepts all non-destructive raw processors have.
3. Browsing vs. Catalogs – The first big difference you encounter between Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW is when you start is locating your photos. In Lightroom you must import or catalog all of your photos from the beginning, a reason some people want to switch from Lightroom right away. The import process is cataloging metadata and processing preview versions of each photo, so it may take some time. ON1 Photo RAW uses a browser based system to let you navigate to any drive or folder where your photos live to view and edit them instantly. So there is no need to import. This is great when you come back from a shoot and have hundreds or thousands of photos you want to view. Now just because there is no long cataloging process, it doesn’t mean that there is no database. For each folder that you browse, the metadata for each photo is extracted and stored in a database along with a cache of previews of the photos so you can search and browse them even faster in the future. ON1 Photo RAW’s cataloged folders take this a step farther. By marking a drive or folder as a cataloged folder, we keep an eye on it all the time and look for new, changed or removed photos. This way you don’t get the dreaded “missing photo” problems of Lightroom and other database only apps. In the background, we also extract all the metadata and create previews so you can search across your entire cataloged folder and view the photos instantly. Lightroom has he concept of a catalog file. This is the document or database that stores all of your settings for the photos you have worked on. You may need to create multiples of these catalogs in some cases and have to open them separately and keep track of where they live. ON1 Photo RAW uses a single database to store everything so there is no need to create multiples or keep track of them.
4. Viewing and Organizing Photos – Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW start in a Browse module and it is where you find, view and manage your photos. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW only show you the photos and supported file types and hide things like documents that may be in the same folders. Both offer the ability to show a filmstrip and a larger view you can zoom-in on. In ON1 Photo RAW the compare mode lets you compare and zoom multiple photos at once. It is very similar to the compare and survey view of Lightroom combined into one mode. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW offer quick ways to tag your photos for sorting with stars, colors or a like/dislike flagging system. Metadata about your photos can viewed and edited in both apps in a similar way. Both support XMP, EXIF and IPTC metadata and both subscribe to the Metadata Working Groups specification on handling metadata. Both offer ways to store lists of photos. Lightroom calls them collections, where ON1 Photo RAW calls them albums. Both offer a way to store search criteria. Lightroom calls them smart collections, where we call them smart albums. Lightroom does offer a couple of other organizational tools like stacks and virtual copies not currently included in ON1 Photo RAW. These features and concepts are being developed for ON1 Photo RAW at this very moment.
5. At the core of any non-destructive photo editing, is the basic raw processing. This includes basic adjustments like exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, white balance, etc. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW provide similar basic adjustments with mostly the same names. You will notice the different ranges and results of these sliders between Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW and this is largely because each app uses completely different raw processing engine. For example, ON1 Photo RAW has a little more contrast by default than Lightroom. Beyond the basic Tone and Color adjustments, both apps offer a range of other adjustments like lens correction, noise reduction, black and white, split tone, curves, etc. Lightroom presents all of it’s available options as a long list of panes. In ON1 Photo RAW, you start with the essential panes and click on the Show More button to add the enhancements your photo needs.
6. Both apps offer great tools for cropping, retouching and local adjustments. I think the local adjustments in ON1 Photo RAW are a little easier to understand and are bit more flexible. They use a layer-stack approach so it is easy to see all of the local adjustments you have added. Each layer has a regular mask that can be edited with any of the masking tools. This lets you combine a gradient and brush at the same time. Or even use a luminosity mask
7. Both apps let you copy/paste or sync your edits across multiple photos. And both let you save presets. Presets are a little different in ON1 Photo RAW. First it comes with many more presets. Second you can preview your presets next to each other for each comparison. Saving a preset is less daunting as well, there is no dialog with hundred checkboxes to configure.
8. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW use similar keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t have to relearn old habits when you change apps. Check out the ON1 Photo RAW shortcuts here.
9. Beyond the Basics – Lightroom has panorama and HDR merge features, both of these will be coming to ON1 Photo RAW soon. For me, the biggest difference between Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW comes down to two big features only found in ON1 Photo RAW – Effects and Layers. They go way beyond the basic tone and color controls. ON1 Effects has 23 filters which include textures, borders, glows, skin smoother, lens blur, dynamic contrast and vintage to name a few. You can stack and configure as many of these filters as you want to create your own unique look. Each filter has masking and blending options built-in to so you can easily target a filter to just the right area or tonal range. Remember, this is all happening right on your raw data, non-destructively. ON1 Layers is also a difference maker. It gives you a lot of the power of Photoshop® right in your raw editor. You can combine multiple photos together, which is perfect for replacing skies, blending exposures or swapping heads.
10. Getting Your Photo Out – Being non-destructive editors, you need to export a photo to share it. Both Lightroom and ON1 Photo RAW offer a powerful export feature where you can resize, choose the file type, watermark, sharpening, location, and naming options. ON1 Photo RAW uses the powerful Genuine Fractals® algorithm for resizing so it maintains all the detail of the original, no matter what size you export. With all that power comes a lot of controls you may also need to configure. If you simply want a photo of the same size, ON1 Photo RAW’s quick export makes it really easy to export the current photo without having to go through the controls in the export dialog. Lightroom offers advanced slideshow, printing and web gallery output options. Currently ON1 Photo RAW users complete their workflows with other dedicated apps or websites for these features. Basic printing can be accomplished via the print dialog. Both apps also make it easy to send copies of your photos to other external applications like Photoshop.

Ready to Make the Switch from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW?
If you are ready to make the switch (or thinking about it) to ON1 Photo RAW, remember this. You don’t subscribe to ON1 Photo RAW. When you purchase it, you own it forever. You can also install ON1 Photo RAW on up to five computers at a time (both Mac and Windows). OR try it free for 30 days. No risk, right? Also make sure to check out the ON1 Photo RAW Feature List.
Lastly, we have developed a built-in Lightroom migration assistant to help simplify the process of switching from Lightroom to ON1 Photo RAW. Look for a write up to this process very soon.

The overwhelming majority of questions I’ve been getting recently are around my workflow, and how I’ll continue to use ON1 as an extension to Lightroom and Photoshop. If you’re going all-in to ON1, there will, of course, be a ton of training for you to use it as a stand-alone. But I also think it’s important to know that they have a ton of Lightroom fans, that also like, ON1 – And that they didn’t leave us behind. In fact, our workflow remains pretty much intact, with a tiny change that you’ll see in this video.

For Lightroom users I can see three big places where ON1 fits in:
1) For those that will still use Lightroom/Photoshop, but use Browse as a front end browser – but eventually bringing those photos into Lightroom. (we’ll cover that in this video)
2) For those that are switching over to ON1 for their raw editing and layered work, but still have a few sharing/output features that they love in Lightroom. (we’ll cover this too)
3) Using ON1 Effects as a styling plug-in to Lightroom (we’ll cover that in another video)
 

Last week I did a video on the ways to jump to Lightroom from ON1. One of the questions that came up involved applying ON1 presets in Lightroom. While there’s no direct way to apply ON1 presets in Lightroom, there’s an awesome little tip about how you can batch export photos from Lightroom, and have ON1 automatically presets to the photos without you lifting a finger (well, after you lift your finger to kick off the batch process that is) 🙂
Anyway, here’s a quick video on how to use the Lightroom Export dialog to apply your favorite ON1 presets. Enjoy!

I always see questions about the various ways to get over to ON1 from within Lightroom. There’s the Photo > Edit In menu and there’s the File > Plug-In Extras menu. They each work just a little different so I figured I’d do a quick video on the best practices to use. Enjoy!