The French software manufacturer DXO Labs has released Filmpack 8, the latest version of its software for filmemulation and effects. The program is available as a plug-in for image processing Adobe Photoshop and for RAW developers Lightroom Classic, DXO Photolab and Capture One. In addition to additional film types, the manufacturer has expanded its virtual journey through time.
Photoshop integration
DXO Filmpack 8 can be used directly in Photoshop as a native pallet. In the side dock, the plug-in shows the 153 film renderings of the effect software as preview images. DXO thus saves its users the detour by calling the plug-in.
Time travel by slider
In the program of the program, photographers can send their pictures through 200 years of photo history. The time travel slider visualizes how the selected photo with analogue equipment of the French photo opion Daguerre and Niépce in the early 19th century to milestones analogous color and black and white films from Kodak and Fujifilm would have looked in the late 20th century. A controller for aging effects adds to the photo gradually reproduced film defects and lets them fade in order to give them the appearance of age withdrawals.
DXO has added seventeen new historical pictures with the associated renderings by seventeen. Filmpack offers its own view for portraits.
15 new film types
Filmpack 8 is expanding its rendering library by 15 new analog films, including Cinestill 800T for pictures with little light, Harman Phoenix 200 with a distinctive grain structure, the black and white film Lady Gray B & W 120 ISO 400 and the highly sensitive Kodak Tmax Pro 3200. Fujifilm and Sony sensors.
Filmscan optimization
With a new tool optimization tool, photographers can edit scanned films themselves. In this way, you can restore the tonal values of color or black and white negative inverting and color values of scanned films over ten tone value curve pressets and optically upgraded. With them, DXO has taken on frequently occurring color shifts and tonal value problems.
In addition, DXO has created its overlays for textures, frames and light leaks in high resolution in order to bring them to the stand of today’s high-resolution RAW files.
Prices and availability
DXO Filmpack 8 is now available for MacOS and Windows. A new license costs 139.99 euros. The upgrade of version 7 is available for 79.99 euros.
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