The Goods

The Goods July 2007

Film Festival

While the film-versus-digital debate is pretty much dead (guess who won), that doesn't stop former film buffs from getting nostalgic. The DxO FilmPack v1.1 ($99, direct), a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and DxO Optics Pro, recreates the results of shooting in more than 20 of your favorites, including Fujichrome Velvia, Kodak's Ektachrome and T-Max, and others, in various speeds. You can choose to include the grain or not, and the program actually takes into account the size of your image before creating the precise relative diameter of the grain it's simulating. So you get the aesthetic of that old-school texture, no developing or scanning required. (www.dxo.com)