DxO FilmPack is one among its many offerings, and it's directly targeting users who prefer a more analog look to their images.
It eventually diversified and expanded its portfolio to offer a suite of image editing software for a variety of purposes and use cases. I finaly got the time to import the work of you.DxO is a company that's known in the world of photography for conducting tests and rating camera equipment and their image quality performance. In that scenario, presets have a definite advantage over the lists. I think most people find a few favorites and stick with them. I doubt anyone uses all 82 film types regularly, any more than actual film shooters would use 82 different films formulations. Even though I created 82 presets I only have around 20 or so of my favorite ones installed in 4 different folders. Some of us may have several favorite film types that are used regularly, and installing just those presets would be a lot more convenient then searching through long lists to find them. Also, just because I created presets for every film type does not mean they all have to be installed. Some people don’t want to have to “walk” down 4 different lists, totaling 82 film types, to select the one they want every time they use FilmPack. They were created because for some of us presets are more convenient.
What have you achieved via these presets that could not be achieved simply by “walking down” each of the rendering options (for, say, Category = Color positive films) from within the Color Rendering tool ? But obviously for those who are comfortable doing this, it is certainly the best way to go The potential for user error for those with the least ability to understand and fix the problem is too great, in my opinion, to suggest it to the average computer user.
It would be easy, as an example, for them to accidentally drag the appdata or other system folder to a different location with just a slip of the mouse. While dragging these preset folders to their final location is certainly the easiest and quickest solution, it is also potentially error prone for an inexperienced user. Many people here may be less knowledgeable computer users and don’t have any experience exploring and modifying system folders. Yes, I suggested that earlier in this thread, although I purposely did not indicate the destination folders.
Mac OS Presets: ~/Library/DxO PhotoLab v2/Presets Windowd Presets: %LocalAppData%\DxO\DxO PhotoLab 2\Presets Unzip and just drop the content like sub-folders in the preset DPL folder. Navigate to the unzipped folder with the similar name to the preset folder you just selected and select all the presets in that folder before clicking on the OK button. (…)Ĭlick on the “import” icon in the Preset Editor (2nd icon from the right). Next in the expanded Preset Editor click on the first icon, “new preset folder”. Go into PhotoLab and expand the Preset Editor.
May I suggest a easier way to install these presets ? If you know where the presets are located you can just copy and paste them there directly, but most people are not comfortable working under the covers and I don’t want anyone to screw up I hope the instructions are clear enough. Click OK and all the selected presets will be copied to that folder.įinally, follow the previous step for the other three folders.
On a Windows machine you can do that by holding down the shift key as you select the presets. Click on the “import” icon in the Preset Editor (2nd icon from the right). Next, select one of the preset folders you just created. Create 3 more preset folders and also rename them with similar names to the unzipped folders. Rename it to a name similar to one of the four folders you’ve unzippped. I only have PhotoLab Elite so I hope the Preset Editor is also available in the Essential Version as well for those that use that version. Next go into PhotoLab and expand the Preset Editor. You will see 4 folders with each containing the presets related to the folder name.
First unzip the zip file to a location on your hard drive.