The beauty of using Lightroom presets and Capture One style packs is that with well-made film styles, you get edits that take hours in seconds. Turn it up and down and see what happens. I included of of these for tone in the free pack. They let you use a film look and then adjust it instantly with darkroom-inspired processes. So I put a ton of time into the ChemKit2 mods in Filmist. In a real darkroom, we could manipulate how we develop and print. Digital sliders are designed to let us push hard and the nuance of good film styles can take weeks to refine. The thing with film presets is that you won’t edit this way manually. The film looks for digital is more powerful and moddable. One of my most requested presets and the new Filmist 2 version is even better and more accurate than what you get on a Fuji camera. Fuji Classic Negative updated in Filmist 2 Free Presets Pack The Classic negative look is inspired by Superia 200. So while I love the ChemKit2 mods in Filmist I don’t hesitate to go to ModKit from Silver 5 black and white presets or maybe GoldChrome for a rich color warm look. But depending on my photo I’ll also use Natural HDR, Streetist, and my other packs.Įach of these packs also has mods. I normally use films as a starting point. I use the balance I learn in creating film presets to improve my other presets. So why am I obsessed with getting perfect film looks? It comes back to maintaining that natural real look that the film created and that I’ve managed to duplicate in Filmist 2. I’ve been making high-grade Lightroom presets and free Capture One styles for many years. How do I decide what presets to use? The power of REAL Photos. Portra 400 and 800 are also included in Filmist Complete. Portra 160 Gen.3 Film Preset Portra 160 free film preset is a classic and the latest Gen3 version is even more refined. Oh, and you also get free film LUTS in the free and complete pack so you can get the true film look in video editors like Premiere Pro, Resolve, and other photo apps like OnOne and Luminar. But for now, at least grab my free film presets pack and enjoy. It’s years of work and it is the best lightroom and capture one film presets I know of. I hope you love these and buy the entire Filmist film presets pack. I’ve shot more film, done more side-by-side testing, and made every film recipe in Filmist 2 better. The latest refinements of these film styles are like true film. I think the main pitch was to persuade potential buyers that having a vast selection of styles available was a justification for purchasing the software even though they would be unlikely to use most of what was offered.Here are the improved film styles in the free film pack. However, in all cases a lot of scrolling was evident (quantity of styles being important for sales?) even though the presenter, using his own images, almost always used exactly the same 2 or 3 styles for all of his images no matter what the content subject matter. I recall, perhaps a decade or more past, watching some sales video guides for a different product that offered a huge number of styles.
It seems to me that the Built-in and Paid-for packs would need to be offered just as they are and it should be left to the user to turn them into User Styles and Presets, sitting alongside their own Styles, in order to manage how they are grouped (and, as now, permit multiple copies of the same Style or Preset to make grouping in preferred "sets" simpler? Also to provide consistent use of the Keyboard Shortcut feature.) (I am not sure as I do not have any paid for Packs.) The same goes for Style Packs with the difference that, potentially, they would bot be automatically updates with each update or version upgrade. (There may be some issues about managing those styles and who has the rights to modify them if working in a Multi-User environment but that probably goes beyond the scope being discussed here.)įor Built in styles that are not copied to be User styles one can still modify the structure (i.e the Style Sets groups) used for delivery as part of the application installation BUT as the next new installation the styles and presets will be re-installed (potentially with some updates for functional compatibility reasons). However, as a thought challenge for how to work with a development design, there are certain considerations.įor User Styles (including copies of Built in styles and presets, as Okular has previously described) there is already the possibility to create and save a folder structure containing the required styles. I'm not a great Styles user so this does not really concern me much.