DxO FilmPack 8: analog time travel for digital photos

DxO FilmPack 8 gives photos an analog film look, intuitively via a timeline in Time Warp mode and as a natively integrated palette in Adobe Photoshop.

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Sep 30, 2025 at 3:00 pm CEST

3 min. read

By

André Kramer

French software manufacturer DxO Labs has released FilmPack 8, the latest version of its film emulation and effects software. The program is available as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop image editing software and for the raw developers Lightroom Classic, DxO PhotoLab, and Capture One. In addition to additional film types, the manufacturer has expanded its virtual journey through time.

Photoshop integration

DxO FilmPack 8 can be used directly in Photoshop as a natively integrated palette. The plug-in displays the 153 film renderings of the effects software as preview images in the side dock. This saves DxO users the detour of having to call up the plug-in.

The effects of DxO FilmPack 8 are available as a palette in Adobe Photoshop.

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Time travel via slider

In the program's Time Warp view, photographers can send their images through 200 years of photographic history. The time travel slider visualizes how the selected photo would have looked with analog equipment used by French photography pioneers Daguerre and Niépce in the early 19th century. It also covers milestones in analog color and black-and-white film from Kodak and Fujifilm in the late 20th century. An aging effects slider gradually adds simulated film defects to the photo and fades them to give them the look of old prints.

DxO has added seventeen new historical images with corresponding renderings to the timeline. FilmPack offers a separate view for portraits.

The "Time Travel" slider sends photographers on a time warp through film types and cameras from 200 years of photographic history.

(Image: DxO Labs)

15 new film types

FilmPack 8 expands its rendering library with 15 new analog films, including CineStill 800T for low-light shots, Harman Phoenix 200 with its distinctive grain structure, the black-and-white film Lady Grey B&W 120 ISO 400, and the highly sensitive Kodak TMAX Pro 3200. There are also four digital profiles inspired by the color reproduction of modern Fujifilm and Sony sensors.

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Film scan optimization

With a new film scan optimization tool, photographers can edit their own scanned films. This allows them to invert the tonal values of color or black-and-white negatives and restore and visually enhance the color values of scanned films using ten tone curve presets. DxO has used these to address common color shifts and tonal value issues.

In addition, DxO has recreated its overlays for textures, frames, and light leaks in high resolution to bring them up to the standard of today's high-resolution raw files.