I fear the lack of in-depth tutorials, explanation of features and how they work, and lack of any real social media presence will lead to the conclusion that DXO won’t be around long. Honestly, there are some obvious workflow and features that are missing or half-hardheartedly applied which go against every other highly intelligent features of the program… which lend to the theory. Unless DXO is an organization built around the principle of masochism, my only educated guess is they are licencing software traits from Adobe, and part of the deal is they can’t make this program too amazing. Photolab has film emulation modules -yes- but they only apply a very unsophisticated color render of the film type selected and those emulation modules lack a lot of nuance details that are beautifully featured in Filmpack5… The very same nuances that actually make Filmpack5 so amazing are not present in Photolab.Įven though you can make a full edited emulation in Filmpack and save/export the edit out as a preset, the Filmpack5 preset will not work in Photolab. There is workflow from Filmpack5 to Lightroom (which I just don’t get) … But not to their own photo editing program. P.s.Filmpack5 is not installed or functional in Photolab, nor is there any direct workflow from Filmpack5 to Photolab. If anyone would like to see what their favourite film looks like ‘simulated’ let me know and I’ll add it to the post. I’m not associated with DXO in any way by the way – I just use this software! I’ll do a post on the colour film and creative presets soon. All of these things can be altered in the editor panel.Īs a quick evaluation tool for different processing options though, it’s brilliant! Even if I can’t get exactly the result in DXO I can go into Photoshop and know what look I want to create immediately. Shooting film is still my preferred option, but if film isn’t for you, the question is – is DXO Filmpack a good film simulator? Well if you put in quite a bit of effort the results can be excellent, but the defaults are a bit strong, and the added grain can be excessive – especially for higher speed films. A general criticism of DXO Filmpack is that it adds too much grain for higher speed films by default. Not a real IR effect but quite close, and for this one the added grain was removed. This one is Rollei Ortho 25 – a good simulation of high contrast treatment.įinally Rollei IR 400. This is reflected in the simulation but it’s more useable as an image than my attempts with the film. This is Rollei Retro 80s, a film I didn’t get on with as it was much too contrasty. Now things get interesting – B/W simulations. This is cross processed Fuji Superia 200 – as with the other cross processed shots, a little less blue is needed but otherwise not bad. This next shot is the cross processed Kodak Elite 100 simulation – a dramatic difference but the saturation needs taking down a bit. The subject is the mill used in the Adox CMS20 mini test on a clear winter’s morning. All are untweaked and the default result of the film simulator. So with a straight shot from a Canon 60D with ‘neutral’ colour profile chosen on the RAW conversion, lets have a look at some of the B/W and cross processing options. The tabs above the filmstrip allow the different film simulations to be selected. I tried a trial copy of DXO Filmpack last year and realised that it gave me something close to what I’d wanted – though its not it’s main purpose! This is a mini test of some of the DXO Filmpack options.Ī screenshot is shown above – the film types along the bottom and some editing tools on the right with the current simulation displayed in the centre. What I wanted was software which would present a gallery of post processing ideas which would get me to the best result quickly – but couldn’t find any. I’ve spent hours in Photoshop tweaking colour settings and black and white conversions options on a shot, often abandoning the process as a different idea for the final ‘look’ suggests itself.
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