![]() Those are the only tools I’d use in film pack (I don’t do split toning, I don’t like funny frames, I don’t need film emulation, basic vignetting is enough for me). A basic grain tool should be in Photo Lab as well but I could forgive its absence for the number of times I use grain. I’d characterise Highlight, Midtone and Shadow contrast as part of the Fine Contrast which should be in Photo Lab ($150 to $200 tool depending on the discount) out of the box. Mark, thanks for sharing your experience with the Film Pack. However, having purchased Photolab Elite, FilmPack 5, Viewpoint, and DXO’s version of the NIK collection, I can honestly say I have no regrets and if faced with the same choice today I would purchase it all again. To be sure Photolab Elite plus all the DXO add-ins can get quite pricey even when purchased at the periodically discounted prices. It adds a number of other useful tools not available in the PL Elite version including Highlight, Midtone and Shadow contrast, B&W Channel Mixer, Creative Vignetting, Blur, Frames,Texture, Light Leak, Grain, Filters, and Split Toning. At least it did so in an experiment of mine with a tricky high ISO interior image.įilmPack adds a lot more than just the fine contrast control and specific film emulations. So at very low settings (think 6 to 15) Clearview Plus might give us a similar effect. For those reading who don’t have Film Pack Elite and would like some indirect access to those Fine Contrast settings, it looks to me like DxO Clearview Plus uses Fine Contrast for much of its effect. It’s crazy that those of us who don’t use film emulations have to buy Film Pack Elite to get Fine Contrast control. ![]() (i bought the Suite Elite after close comparison so i don’t benefit right now if they actual transfer those sliderstools into PL)įine Contrast controls should be in the core DxO Photo Lab definitely. ![]() NiK standalone for photoshop/LR and if you buy FilmPack6 it enable you to use NIKcollection as a real plugin embedded in PL like viewpoint and Filmpack does now. So i agree, bring those base things inside PL(elite) and make FilmPack6 more a raw link towards NIKcollection-DxOv2. (I don’t say DxO actually did that but i mean some tools in FP5 are more PL base tools instead of emulation filters.) So the power of viewpoint is already known ,but this Filmpack5 which has grabed some candy out of the of NIKtools and mixed those with raw tone controls. So even when i don’t use most of the time those “color theme’s” and other artistic film emulations it still brings some use in the application for general processing. And if i want i can use the NIKcollections version.(free version0īut there is more added in PL controltools when you plugin FP5: I was hesitating to buy FP5 because i don’t use much of the emulations it offers.
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