ON1 Effects 2025
ON1 Effects 2025 is a Mac photo editing app and plugin for adding creative effects, filters, textures, and AI-assisted retouching to images.
What is ON1 Effects 2025?
ON1 Effects 2025 is a photo effects and creative editing app for Mac that helps photographers quickly stylize images and finish edits with filters, presets, textures, and selective adjustments. It can be used as a standalone desktop app or as a plugin with photo editors such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Capture One, Affinity Photo, Corel PaintShop Pro, and Apple Photos. The app is designed for users who want fast visual looks such as black-and-white treatments, film-inspired color grading, glow effects, borders, and contrast-based enhancements without building every effect manually. Version 2025 also adds AI-assisted tools for tasks like removing distractions, matching color between photos, and making depth-based adjustments. It fits well into photography workflows where users want to enhance portraits, landscapes, travel shots, and social-ready images while keeping editing flexible and repeatable.
Key features
- Apply one-click presets, filters, LUTs, textures, and borders to photos
- Use the app as a standalone editor or as a plugin in other photo workflows
- Create layered looks by stacking and blending multiple effects
- Adjust specific colors with targeted hue, saturation, and brightness controls
- Match the tone and color style of one photo to another
- Remove unwanted objects and common distractions with AI-assisted tools
- Make depth-based masks for more natural selective edits
- Re-edit stylized photos later in supported workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
This is legitimate photo editing software. It normally needs access to photos and image folders you choose so it can open, edit, and export files, and plugin use may pass copies of images through your main photo editor. That level of file access is expected for a creative editing app. Keep it if you use ON1 Effects or depend on it in another editor, and use standard caution when opening important originals by keeping backups of your photos before major edits.
Recommendation: Keep ON1 Effects 2025 if you use it for photo styling or as part of your editing workflow with another image editor. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other creative apps, but its plugins and saved editing options may stop being available in connected photo software.
Common paths
/Applications/ON1 Effects 2025.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.ononesoftware.PerfectEffects19.premium
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/ON1~/Library/Application Support/com.ononesoftware.PerfectEffects19.premium
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.ononesoftware.PerfectEffects19.premium.plist
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