I am glad that you can afford it and hope that you make good use of all the features FP has to offer but could it not be that others are right when suggesting that this feature belongs in both DxPL and FP, the former because it belongs there and the latter because it might be useful to others using FP as an add-on for other software.Ĭurrently I have access to FP as my “reward” for taking part in PL5 Beta testing, I had already purchased DxPL before the reward scheme was announced (in truth I didn’t actually realise there was any “reward” on offer) but any changes that DxO make to DxPL and FP in the future may well render that version obsolete/incompatible.īuying an expensive add-on for a single feature, useful though it might be, is not my idea of value-for-money. I am not sure why we are still arguing about this, It seems that some folks want the features but are not willing to pay for I am sorry if you are bored with the topic and would like us to stop “whinging” about it and just buy FP or forego access to the feature. If they don’t want to spend the cash to buy the whole suite then they have to expect compromises on features. If someone wants all the features PhotoLab has to offer then they purchase the the whole suite. VP and FP are part of the PhotoLab Suite. However, it would still cost much more than the current cost of PhotoLab Elite alone, but at least it would eliminate all the confusion over features and hopefully stop the complaints. PhotoLab with the internal versions of VP and FP included could also sell for somewhat less than the current cost of the suite. For those that want them they can sell the standalones for a bit less money without the PhotoLab functionality. I have long advocated that giving customers this choice just agitates them.I think they should just market the entire Elite suite as a single package without the standalone versions of VP and FP. I am not sure why we are still arguing about this, It seems that some folks want the features but are not willing to pay for them. Has anyone seen anything like it in any other converter or grphical software? I haven´t! If you have both you might see this as an academic question but if you havn´t it might confuse you a bit because it´s not very logical to separate one out of three “contrast functions” as DXO has done. Yes, Fine Contrast would not be there in PL if you hadn´t installed FP too. Perhaps DxO should more clearly indicate the differences between the full suite and the individual parts in their marketing information. It is easy to second guess their decision regarding which features to place where, but I can say that in the four and one half years I have been using their products, until now the lack of the Fine contrast sliders in PhotoLab Elite has not seemed to be a particularly serious issue for anyone. The whole PhotoLab suite is expensive, but DxO to its credit has created a modular system to give users a pricing choice. If you want a full featured version of PhotoLab, it must include PhotoLab Elite, Viewpoint, and FilmPack Elite. I think the perspective tool in Viewpoint is absolutely essential but many people don’t seem to need it. Still others expect PhotoLab Elite to contain the creative blurring tool, or the filter tool, or the frame tool. Others say the same thing about the channel mixer. There are those who have posted here who believe that creative vignetting is an essential tool and should be part of PhotoLab Elite. For others it is PhotoLab Elite that better meets their needs., And for still others. Far some people the Basic version of PhotoLab has all the essential tools they need. What is an essential tool and what is not comes down to a matter of opinion. Looking for the Fine Contrast? … the game is on, hide and seek! Clue - you won’t find it where you expect it to be! But isn’t the reason people buy the Pro or Elite versions of software that they shall get access to all the essential tools? The confusion manifest itself when they find out that wasn’t what they got.
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