About film simulations;
Photolab 3 Elite: there are many film simulations under Color rendering (Color positive, Color negative Black&White for example)
Photolab 4: there is only one film simulation and that’s Color positive films. What happened with Black&White?
If I click on questionmark it says ‘’More films are available with DxO FilmPack plugin’’
Filters;
Photolab 3 Elite: there are tons of filters like warm filter, cold filter, …. etc
Photolab 4: there is Filter tool but it has no filters. It’s empty!
If I click on questionmark it says ‘’FilmPack plugin is required’’.
If I understand correctly … in Dxo Photolab ELITE there should be included DxO Film Pack with all film simulations and filters like in DxO Photolab 3 ELITE.
Hi, @m9k. What version of FilmPack do you have installed and licensed along with PhotoLab 3 Elite? Did you install PhotoLab 4 on the same computer? If yes, I wonder why the license for FilmPack wasn’t imported along with other settings from PhotoLab 3. I had no such problems when I installed PhotoLab 4 (+ demo license) alongside PhotoLab 3 with FilmPack 5 (all Elite editions).
Thanks a lot Greg.
So; what do I need to do to also have Black&White, Color negative films and Cross processed films?
Do I need to install Film Pack 5?
Regards
I have never known PhotoLab without FilmPack, so I can’t tell you what you get without it. But, since it is not upgraded every year, I just bought it anyway. There are other great things in FilmPack as well as the renderings, see here
The most important reason to buy FilmPack is Fine Contrast. Fine Contrast is the tool which will allow you to make your images ultrasharp without seeming sharpened: to add real pop. It works in conjunction with Lens Sharpness for supported lenses and by itself for unsupported/manual lenses.
If BW is your thing, SilverEfex from the Nik plugins is in another category from what the BW simultations in Photolab. I would not process BW images without SilverEfex. On the other hand, some of the Colour Film simulations, both slide and print, are awesome. For a high contrast somewhat bright effect I particularly like Agfa Vista 200 (it can trend too yellow). For deep rich colours, particularly green and red, I like Fuji Velvia 50). For dark images, it’s often necessary to lift the blacks about 8 or 9 as a good starting point with Velvia 50.
There are a number of very useful features in FilmPack 5. In addition to Fine Contrast it adds three additional contrast sliders for Highlights, Midtones and Shadows, a creative vignetting tool, a channel mixer, a blur tool, additional toning effects for the style/toning feature, and a filter tool that simulates colored lens filters. It is much more than just a collection of film emulations as some people seem to think.
It’s impossible if you do not activate FP license (or have it installed standalone). As it’s already have been said by other users here - the full set of FP features are not included in PL by default no matter it’s PL2, 3, 4 Elite. To have it you should either activate it inside the PL or install a standalone FP version.
Second, if you have FP installed and licensed - then it will be available in any PL version.
My guess is - maybe you use a trial version of FP in your PL3 if you said you had a good number of filters in PL3 and do not have them in PL4.
I just upgraded my DXO from 3 to 4 and was wondering why my FilmPack section of tools only gave me “Filters” , found this thread and had a look around, all the film simulations are directly available on the colours palette now, the Grain tool still appears in the FilmPack section.
Just thought I’d clarify that if other people have the same issue!
