PhotoLab Elite does not include FilmPack or Viewpoint. It would be time to reorganize those parallel offers and de-deduplicate similars preset between the standard PhotoLab film presets, the FilmPack option presets and the Analog Color and B&W film presets from the Nik Collection. I always understood that Elite vs Essential was about FilmPack + ViewPoint included for the PL Elite version.Ībout FilmPack Elite vs Nik Collection, are we paying twice the same analog film presets ? Why is there in my personal DXO manager an option to upgrade to PL4 Elite → PL5 Elite and FP6 Elite alone ? The company has changed hands since and the “modern” DXO company has no obligation to support software created before they came into existence, even if the name is the same.I still don’t understand if my PL4 elite upgrade will include FP6 elite ?

Please remember though that FP3 is a very old program and was created by the “old” DXO company. I would contact DXO support and see if there is any way FP3 could be reactivated. Nevertheless, a gift is still a gift and should still continue to work if there are no compatibility issues. Have you ever trialed the Elite version of any of the FP versions 3-6? If not, why not trial FP6 Elite? It has all of the emulations included in FP3 Essential and much, much more. I don’t have FP3 any more as I too had a disc crash and didn’t bother recovering FP3 because I now had FP5 Elite.

I found that P元 was not the same program without the extra functionality of the Elite version of FP. After the trial I went back to FP3 for a while before upgrading(at full price but on sale) to FP5 Elite. It still worked fine, but I made the “mistake” of trialing FP5 Elite when I upgraded to P元 Elite and found out what I had been missing(all that extra functionality mentioned by Joanna). I even continued to use it for a while when I upgraded finally to P元 Elite.

It was very nice and I was impressed with DXO’s quality. It had only film emulations and none of the other addons that mentions. It was the “Essential” version, not “Elite” and was not eligible for upgrade pricing.

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