Bright waterfalls can easily overpower a landscape photo and hide important detail. In this step-by-step editing guide, you’ll learn how to use tone and color adjustments, Luminosity Masks, and Dynamic Contrast to recover detail in bright water, enhance the surrounding landscape, and create a more balanced and natural-looking waterfall image.

What You’ll Learn

• How to use Luminosity Masks to recover detail in bright waterfall highlights
• Techniques for balancing tone and color while preserving a natural look
• How to copy and invert masks to protect specific areas of an image
• Ways to enhance landscape texture and detail without affecting the water flow

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Transform a color wildlife photograph into a dramatic black and white portrait using ON1 Photo RAW. In this step-by-step editing guide, you’ll learn how to build contrast, selectively illuminate your subject with AI masking, create a rich black and white conversion, enhance fur detail with Dynamic Contrast, soften the background with Glow, and finish the image with a subtle vignette. These techniques work beautifully for lions, birds, mammals, and other wildlife subjects, helping you create timeless images that emphasize texture, emotion, and storytelling.

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This edit focuses on transforming a flat cityscape by adding depth, contrast, and atmosphere, enhancing detail in the buildings while shaping light in the sky. You’ll refine tone and color to introduce warmth and mood, then use targeted adjustments and creative effects to create a more dramatic, cinematic urban scene.

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Create a soft, airy look in your photos with this step-by-step ON1 Plus Editing Guide. In this edit, you’ll learn how to build a strong foundation using the Develop module, enhance tones and color for a balanced image, and introduce light and atmosphere using local adjustments. We’ll also explore how to add creative effects like light leak textures and glow to bring a dreamy, polished feel to your final image.

This edit focuses on adding punch and depth to the shoreline, enhancing texture in the sand and rocks, keeping the water soft and dreamy, and refining color for a vibrant coastal finish.

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Wildlife photography gives us a glimpse into the beauty and character of animals, but editing is where we can truly shape the mood of a scene. In this guide, we’ll take an arctic wolf photo and transform it into a dramatic portrait through careful cropping, tonal adjustments, detail enhancements, background control, and even adding a natural foreground element. Each step is designed to draw the viewer’s eye to the wolf and create a cinematic, atmospheric result, while giving you techniques you can apply to your own wildlife and portrait images.

In this Sunset Portrait editing guide, we’re enhancing a golden hour portrait to bring out the natural warmth, soft light, and dreamy atmosphere that make sunset photos so compelling. You’ll walk through each step to brighten the subject, warm up the tones, add flattering light to the face, and introduce subtle creative effects like a glowing hair light and a soft sun flare. The goal is to create a polished, professional-looking portrait that feels natural and glows with the light of the setting sun — all while learning how and why each adjustment makes an impact.

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ON1 Photo RAW 2020 customers can now create custom ICC camera profiles with X-Rite! If you are looking for a step-by-step tutorial you came to the right place. This PDF is the official quick start for creating and using your own custom camera profiles. To build a new profile, you will need a color profiling target and additional software that creates the profile. ON1 worked with X-Rite Inc. during the development process to create a workflow that simplifies the process to ensure consistent results when building your camera profiles. In addition to ON1 Photo RAW 2020, you’ll need a reference target, such as one of the ColorChecker series, and X-Rite’s ColorChecker Camera Calibration app.