Thank you for choosing DxO FilmPack 8. Praised by professionals for the faithfulness of its analog film renderings, DxO FilmPack lets photographers apply to their digital images all of the characteristics of the analog films that have made photo history, as well as numerous original renderings, filters, toning, and visual effects — all of which can be infinitely combined.
Support for RAW format
Now supporting RAW format, DxO FilmPack uses the calibrated data from your camera to apply analog presets with perfectly faithful colors. And as it is based on all of DxO’s RAW processing know-how, DxO FilmPack automatically corrects — without any intervention on your part — all of your equipment’s possible optical flaws: distortion, vignetting, and chromatic aberrations, all while efficiently reducing the undesirable digital noise in your images.
Film Scan Optimizer
The Film Scan Optimizer gives DxO FilmPack a new dimension, offering the ability to process scanned negatives and slides — whether from a film scanner, a camera, or even a smartphone. You have tools that let you invert negatives, apply a basic preset, and even create a custom base rendering, notably with the dedicated tone curve.
High-fidelity analog film renderings
DxO FilmPack preset renderings are created in DxO’s laboratories using an exclusive scientific process of exhaustively profiling each film. This process is based on a series of shots of specially-calibrated targets and as well as real-life subjects taken with the film being profiled. The film is then developed by the world’s most reputable processing laboratories, notably PICTO and Arka Lab in France, and Duggal in the United States, and is then subjected to high-resolution digitization in order to measure the film response and to extract the grain matrices. This process has allowed DxO to perfectly reproduce high-fidelity rendering of the characteristic appearance, colors, and grains of 83 legendary films — color negatives, black & white, slide, and instant snapshots.
Fuji and cinema digital renderings
DxO FilmPack also offers you such preset renderings as the digital simulations of certain analog films available on Fuji cameras, as well as the possibility of giving a cinematic aspect to your images.
Ergonomic interface
Process your images even more easily, thanks to DxO FilmPack’s new interface — even more simple and intuitive! Use the integrated file browser to choose your work directory and instantly see all the images it contains. Quickly access all presets, effects, and settings grouped together in the unique lateral control panel. Select the style that best matches your taste: analog film, cinematic, or designer, color or black & white, with or without a toning effect or a frame — the combinations are infinite! Click on a thumbnail: the processing is applied immediately.
Designer presets: a touch of madness for your images
DxO FilmPack provides you with many original color and black & white Designer presets. Vintage effects, aged photos, improbable tints: give a unique style to your photos. With the Poetic preset, recreate the warm tones and past colors of an old American series. With Red tone, warm up the colors to capture the evening light. Use Photo 1900 to reproduce all the sweetness of sepia enhanced with a fine grain.
Original effects: highlight your photos
Easily apply a large number of effects to your images with settings that are accessible in one click. With the Textures tool, choose among a wide variety of textures – scratches, stains, grains, or wrinkled papers – to give a vintage aspect to your photos. Fine-tune the intensity and the orientation of your effect and then use DxO FilmPack’s intuitive controls to apply it to a toning. Using the Light leak palette, simulate the accidental exposure to light of a film cartridge, and reproduce the areas of overexposure or color saturation on the edges of the image.
Select the type of effect you want to apply, its orientation, its intensity, and change its position as you wish. DxO FilmPack offers many frames – passe-partout, darkroom, slide, instant, film, glass, or old paper. Define their placement – inside or outside of the image – and their thickness, to show off your photos.
Plugin and standalone application
You can use DxO FilmPack both as a standalone application and as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and DxO PhotoLab.
You can take advantage of better integration with Adobe Photoshop thanks to a new floating palette that lets you directly apply renderings — both those included with DxO FilmPack and your own custom renderings — without having to launch the application in standalone mode.
In standalone application mode or as a plugin for DxO PhotoLab, you can directly process your TIFF, JPEG, and RAW images in just a few clicks. In plugin mode, you can follow your regular processing workflow while enriching your Adobe solutions.
Thank you to the photographers who contributed to illustrating this user guide. All images are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without the permission of their author and DxO Labs.
- Agathe Poupeney
- AG Photographe AAA
- Alain Laboile
- Alexandre Gendron
- Antoine Mutin
- Davey Wilson
- Delphine Trentacosta
- Gilles Theophile
- Hugo Santarem
- Jean-Marc Alexia
- Kah-Wai Lin
- Kalel Koven
- Karim Roland
- Laetitia Guichard
- Martijn Kort
- Martin Morgenweck
- Nohcab
- Petr Bambousek
- Reed Hoffmann
- Romain Veillon
- Scott Stulberg
- Stefan Forster
- Thomas Voland
- Val Velez
- Vera Sung
- Yoann Stoeckel
- Yoshiki Fujiwara