Deciding what PL package to get – Filmpack vs Nik Collection

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Hi!

I’m about the register Photolab for the first time. I want the Elite edition, and probably ViewPoint as a complement since I shoot a lot of wide angle photos with my Panasonic LX100.

I also like to get film presets, but doesn’t understand the differences between Nik Collection and FilmPack. Can anyone help with a comparision between the two?

For Photolab + Filmpack + Viewpoint, the best buy would be the DxO Photo Suite Elite. But what would be the cheapest way to get PhotoLab Essential + Nik Collection + Viewpoint?

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PhotoLab Suite Elite is a very good choice.
-30% for last 3 days :wink:

NIK and PL are redondant.
They don’t do the same thing.
To get film presets, FilmPack is more efficient in the PhotoLab environment.

Pascal

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So FilmPack is better integrated with PhotoLab? You don’t have to make a TIFF export first?

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YES :smiley:
Pascal

http://tuto.dxo.free.fr/EN/Efficacite/Efficiency.html#B1_Les_differents_logiciels_DxO

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I can recommend to use DPL Elite with both VP and FP just activated (not separately installed) within DPL. As for Nik… hm… I’d skip it for now. It offers a few niceties, but I feel that they are better suited as plugins for Adobes PS and LR than as an addition to the DxO Photo Suite: https://shop.dxo.com/de/photo-software/dxo-photo-suite

In my early DxO days, I used the standard edition only to find that I had to upgrade to elite a few months later because of the camera I used (differentiation was different at that time). I also installed VP and FP separately and found that a possible benefit would not outweigh the ease of use with all packages activated in one app.

I hope that DxO can get rid of media breaks soon and integrate Nik functionality into DPL.

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Filmpack is completely integrated into Photolab, so much so that you would not recognize it as a separate piece of software. I have FilmPack and the Nik Collection and use both with PhotoLab Elite 3. Not everybody wants both of them, but I find having both of them extremely useful.

Mark

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Elite over Essential, VP is great to have for architectural. FP if you want some film preset.

Nik collection are plugins, like using Luminar, Topaz, Alienskin for example, and your image from PL need (duplicated) to be send as .tiff or .jpeg. I use Nik like many others do, but there is also many that don’t. Best to try first to see if you need any of them.

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I installed everything at once PL, FP and VP. I still haven’t been able to work out what functionality belongs to which. All I know is, it makes life very simple when I can edit a RAW file, from beginning to end, in the same app.

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It create a Palette for each of them (viewpoint palette and film pack palette) for ease of use.

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Not only.
Add menus Fine Control in the palette Contrast
In the palette Color, Add Films in Color Rendering and effects in Style Toning

Think also.
Film Pack essential have a poor interest in PhotoLab.
You must buy FP Elite.

Pascal

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agree, that’s why I said Elite over Essential.
what I meant by create palette was with what included with the addition of FP and VP.

*quick note, make sure to check if any as a tiny + in the bottom right corner to have access to everything within.

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I appreciate all the input! DxO Photo Suite Elite it is!

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I’ve been using the whole PhotoLab Elite suite for the last 2 years and have never regretted it.

Mark

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