For many years I used freeware Paint.NET for all my editing. I like learning how to get a jpg out of my camera that looks like I want it to. I never pushed beyond that.
Then in 2019, I bought a PENTAX DSLR with astrotracer and in my one night under the stars of West Texas got some beautiful milky way photos. Then in 2020, I started waiting in a camp chair near the butterfly bush and after a few weeks managed to get some great (for me) hummingbird shots.
One thing in common with both sets of images. Noise. At end of 2020, I evaluated a lot of free trial software. I finally purchased Topaz suite and DXO PL elite. Topaz does some things I can use as needed while PL fits like a glove. I really appreciate the mostly intuitive nature of the software, with advanced options for processing without all the clutter of photoshop, light room, etc.
This past Black Friday I upgraded to PL5, and added other options including FilmPack Elite. The preset browser was an unexpected find when I stumbled across it. Adding Mark’s preset pack was good, then I found this thread. And now, here we are.
Thanks again for sharing! I am slowly getting the hang of things. But still a long ways away from expert in any one thing.
@Joanna ; Thanks to you for your suggestions regarding avoiding crop and other settings being discarded. And thanks to input from @RexBlock, I understand which setting affects centerpoint also. You can disregard this question. In your preset, as with the base, the centerpoint was defined something like this:
ArtisticVignettingCenterPoint = {
0.47593835,
0.503057718,
},
Modifying to this achieves the desired effect of having the vignetting centered properly on the image being edited.
i downloaded your preset and compared it with the original, it’s now “only Elite” due the partial version.
let’s rename yours in “Engraved 2022 Elite partial” 2 - Engraved 2022 Elite partial.preset (5,2 KB)
Yes you can, IF you have FilmPack v6 .(i think it’s v6 only)
It’s a Infrared emulatie combined with @RexBlock 's engraved settings.
I made it just for fun.
The b&w version is completely a pencildrawing image wile the color more like a painting is.
Just download import by placing it in a presetfolder, test and play with it and modify if you find it nessacerry.
It’s sharing and thus use and give to use.
Most made presets are fun and artistic… Some are cinematic as in color detail enhancement in one click. Sort of HDR look.
Sometimes you clicked a image which is usable for artistic fun and over the top adjustments improves an image.
If you stumble on such an image and create certain setting which evolves in a preset the place to share is here.
I can only reply to try one of them on an image. The results are not always pleasing, but some results are very surprising.
This started as an attempt to produce something like the simple line portraits that are featured in the Wall Street Journal. They’re called stipple hedcuts (link). I didn’t quite get there but I got something else – a nice way to bring out lines and eliminate broad color fields, such as skies and other landscapes.
A filter preset that looks like simulation of infra red camera.
(As wrote earlier there are some problems in sharing presets.
1 elite vs essential => partail preset possible or not.
2 PL version, often not backwards compatible.
1 you can alter by creating a full version on request the other is simply try and error.
(i suppose as the preset has no “new features” active in the preset it can be read by older versions.)
Mike, I’m with you, I’m sure. I’ve been using PhotoLab for a bit over a year now. Quietly following many of your conversations and learning what I could. (You ask great questions and get even better answers).
Around Black Friday I upgraded to PL5 and added Viewpoint, Nik, and Filmpack licenses. This last one was interesting last year when I did the free trial, but I had opted to save the money. Now that I have it, I kept toggling back and forth between the standalone FilmPack app and PL, and made a comment here about how they are non-integrated. I could see a preset menu in PL, but saw no way to easily browse and compare different “film effects” (aka emulations). About the time @Joanna asked if I had made use of the “preset browser” I clicked on a button on top right that said “Apply Presets” and found a view where I could see some of the various film emulations and other creative effects included in FP.
This thread exists for folks to share their own customized presets, and here I found multiple versions of “engraved” and “engraved color” presets which I found to be very useful for a greeting card project I am working on.
I only got involved here because I thought I saw something about a “preset” for infrared, which to me is impossible. The tones and colors in infrared are not random, there is a lot of logic to them, and a camera sensitive to infrared only shows it’s reaction to what is already there, for real, being photographed. For example, green leaves do not turn to white leaves because of the color “green”.
When I get a few free minutes, I am fascinated by what you are trying to do by using a Preset to convert an image into the “lines” that make up the resulting image. Before I say anything more, I think I need to go to the very beginning of this thread, and read the entire discussion to date. Maybe then I’ll be able to not only try to do what you are doing, but understand how and why it works.
In my copy of 4 - Engraved Color fullpreset.preset , I modified the 2nd one to also use the 0.500000 format as the preview showed it still off center. Some of the other presets only had one of these fields…
Many thanks - I like your naming. When I have time I’ll redo my “Custom Presets” folder using this format.
if you upload the preset then i replace mine by the .50 .50
your welcome, i reorganised the preset list and renamed also the dxo preset folders
By adding folders and numbers i get my preferred line up and not organised by alphabet.
quicker finding and most used at the top.
Also easier to find in the right op preset button pulldown.
Bebop
(Barb Mac 11.7, PL6, FP6, VP3, Canon, Olympus)
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Just as an aside, you can also ‘Export to Application’ and choose Film Pack 5 if you want all the bells and whistles of the full version. I shall now spend some time digesting this thread
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding is that there is nothing in the standalone version of FP that’s not available within PL. So why would you do this?
I’m guessing that some people prefer using the FP interface. I very quickly uninstalled the FilmPack 5 Elite standalone version in 2017 and do not have the FilmPack 6 standalone version installed either.
Mark
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Bebop
(Barb Mac 11.7, PL6, FP6, VP3, Canon, Olympus)
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I’ve just had a little look and I believe you are correct, but things like hue, saturation and colour are separate (understandably) so perhaps it is more that I prefer the workflow in Film Pack 6 - once I am in there, everything seems easier to tweak. When I apply a film preset, I usually adjust quite a few sliders.
