“Culinary” seems like a nice idea that I haven’t seen elsewhere, although I’m mildly sceptical about the notion that one could make styles that apply to one specific genre. “Retro” includes some filters that seem Instagram-inspired (“Nashville”, anyone?). The list of styles includes some obviously inspired by Capture One (“pastel”, “sun glow”, “cool ocean”, “hot desert”, and “deep forest”), at least one that looks likely to come via (AlienSkin) Exposure (“cinema” – although Capture One also has a similarly named category), while another seems to be just simple colour casts (“minimalist”). ON1 Photo RAW certainly adopted the multi-preview feature that’s a hallmark of Exposure and woefully absent in Capture One – to my mind, the one thing that decides whether presets/styles can be usable or merely onerous. Exposure includes film grain simulation, for instance. Ten years ago, AlienSkin’s slogan for Exposure 2 was, “the closest thing to film since film”. Over 100 new looks and styles were added to Photo RAW in order to compete with Exposure X5, which has a long list of reasonably good ones – and whose origins are rooted in exactly this kind of transformation. I would go as far as to say that some of the improvements were made in response to particular strengths of various competing programs, as detailed below. I think its feature list gives an interesting guide to where the industry stands and what the competition has to offer.
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