DxO FilmPack: Functionalities

Functionalities

• Simulation of classic film renderings
• Simulation of colored filters
• Simulation of metallic tonings

Simulation of classic film renderings

Based on DxO Labs’ unique calibration know-how, DxO FilmPack offers photographers the most precise photographic film simulation solution on the market to give their digital images the rendering – in terms of colors, saturation, contrast, and grain – of 50 slide, color negative, and black & white as well as cross-processed films.

Example

Original	Polaroid 669	Kodak Tri-X 400

Thanks to its simple, intuitive interface, these simulations can be accessed with a single click, or for expert users, through advanced color and grain rendering controls.

As many silver-halide films are impossible to find today, DxO FilmPack allows both photographers who have worked with these films and those who want to discover them to very precisely simulate their rendering in digital images.

Color film, or black & white profile, saturation and contrast

Photographers accustomed to silver-halide film technology like to vary film according to their desired subjects and effects: thus one might prefer films with a soft rendering for a portrait, a film with strong contrast for a dramatic journalistic photo, a film with saturated colors for a sun-drenched landscape...

Example of mystic IR and Black & White filter

Kodak TMax 100	Kodak IR filtré

From this base rendering, it is possible to refine the application and adjust the parameters to the selected image; this adjustment can be made on the screen so long as your computer correctly displays color and shades.

  Click here to see the 50 film renderings available.

Film grain

DxO FilmPack very precisely reproduces the size, form, intensity, and color of silver-halide grains, thus restoring texture to your prints.

The user can change the intensity (the visibility of the grain in relation to the image) and the size of the grain: to do this, one has 24x36, medium format, and large format adjustments to make the grain size correspond with classic silver-halide formats. Manual adjustment is also possible.

Simulation of metallic tonings

DxO FilmPack offers “tonings” that transform any digital image into an elegant metallic print with ochre, bluish, or gray-green hues, reproducing the hues created by the last bath used to process a Black & White silver-halide print.

Available tonings: Iron, Gold, Selenium, Earth Sepia, Gold Sepia, Sepia

Example

Original	Iron	Earth Sepia

Photo: Jean Cassagne

 

Simulation of color filters for black & white

What effect does a color filter have on a black & white photo?
When you convert an image to black & white with a filter, you reconstitute the exposure effect when these filters were used, especially for landscape photography. A red filter emphasizes reds and darkens the complementary color, green. A yellow filter emphasizes yellows and thus darkens blues. A green filter emphasizes greens and darkens reds… In practice, since colors produce gray tones in a black & white image, filters allow the selective emphasis of certain hues and the lightening of others.
 

Filters are often used to create a dramatic atmosphere
Yellow and red filters are always used in traditional black & white photography to emphasize skies and plants, while a green filter lightens fields and foliage. It can also accentuate tanned skin, which yellow and red filters will fade.

Available color filters:: Green, Yellow, Orange, Deep Orange, Red, Blue

Filter example

Original	Black & White	Red Filter

Photo: Jean-Marie Sépulchre

 

Uses for DxO FilmPack

In comparison with the many modifications that a photo editor might make, DxO FilmPack offers quick and highly effective solutions for easily transforming your digital files in order to:

• Discover the magic of classic silver-halide films and the variety of images that can be obtained by changing sensitive media: What used to be possible to do through exposure on classic film can now be reproduced on your computer.
• Rediscover the rendering of a classic film to match photos taken several years ago on film and recent digital photos to display in an exhibition or for a book.
• Give texture to enlargements to avoid the overly smooth or even “plastic” feel that is a common critic of digital photos, as the addition of a grain gives density and relief visible to the eye when printed on large format paper.
• Freely combine the desired renderings to explore without limits the artistic creation that was the privilege of virtuoso chemists in the darkroom only a few years ago.

Original	Color Kodachrome 25 ™ et grain Kodak Tri-X ™ !

Photo: Jean-Marie Sépulchre