They didn't look like Portra, Astia or most color films to me. So I had to export TIFFs or JPEGs.įilmPack 3 is very limited compared with Silver Efex but I actually liked the simplicity of the Essentials tools. But it's clunky compared with Nik Silver Efex.ĭxO FilmPack 3 doesn't work with DNG or camera raw (which has been cussed and discussed extensively on this forum and elsewhere). Apparently it can interface with Lightroom - sorta - if you designate FilmPack for the exports. I played around with that freebie version of DxO FilmPack 3 yesterday. I guess there is a lot of work involved with getting the right parameters, this is why there are no free options. I am/was looking for software which has this pre-set, that's the whole point. Also I could do with Raw Therapee or basically any other post-processing software as well, so I don't see how these programs are of particular help. I already tried this and it's extremely time consuming. Regarding Lightroom and LightZone, thanks for tips but I have absolutely no interested in fiddling around with parameters myself until I got the look of film approximated. The paid version does have batch processing from what I understand. However what this free "Essential" version lacks is batch processing, which makes it for my workflow and amount of pictures basically useless. The film simulation itself looks very good and there is a reasonably large and good selection of films, inbcluding my beloved Delta 3200 and funky stuff like Polachrome. I could play around a bit more with DxO Filmpack. Still very satisfied a year later, and will upgrade to version 5 for the much improved healing/cloning brush. But by the end of 2012 I was frustrated with RT's resource hogging tendencies (especially the tools for sharpening and clarifying - those would actually kick my quad core CPU's cooling fan into overdrive), chunky looking noise reduction (I shoot at high ISOs a lot) and non-intuitive interface. Then I went back to RawTherapee for awhile. Then I used the trial version of Lightroom 4. I used RawTherapee for awhile because it was powerful and free. If you give Lightroom a try (there's a generous 30-day free trial, full featured), you may decide it's worth buying. I dialed them back until I got the look I wanted, closer to portrait color negative films, and created my own presets. Most of the standard and custom presets were only a rough starting point - usually the colors were way over the top for my taste. I encountered similar issues with Lightroom 4 when I first used it. I normally use Lightroom but I've downloaded DxO to give it a try.Īnton, it's been awhile since I last used RawTherapee - over a year - but as I recall you can create your own custom settings, save them, and apply them as desired to your raw files. ![]() (*) By "free" I mean free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-open-source, both is fine. I wonder if I can have profiles simulating Natura 1600, X-tra 400 etc. The unprocessed RAW files always look so flat and dull, and the Raw Therapee "Bundled profiles" (Contrasty, Pop.) which I found look unconvincing. All I want is to approximate the colors which I love from my scanned film negatives somehow in my digital pictures, too. Also I am aware that a 100% exact film simulation is not possible, I am already shooting physical film mainly but it has become a serious cost issue where I live so I started experimenting with digital. ![]() ![]() My goal is only to approximate the film colors, not necessarily the grain. I want to convert the colors from the RAWs such that they approximate the look of specific color negative film (such as Natura 1600 and others).Īre there any free (*) options which let me do that? I know that there are commercial softwares offered for this but I am looking for free options, especially I am wondering if I can do this somehow in Raw Therapee?
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