This is advertised as being an advantage from the perspective of realistically simulating film with the most software control over how the image is manipulated and rendered from the original sensor data file. There is a big difference between the first three examples of CS5/6 plugins when compared to the next one. Exposure Delta 100 RightĪll these are usable results, if you like this sort of thing, and since they are all Photoshop plugins, you can easily layer the effects to get just the look you want. The DFT 3200 looks almost identical to the Exposure 100, and the DFT Delta 100 (not shown) had even smoother texture.ĭFT Delta 3200 Left vs. The DFT grain is less intense at any given film ISO equivalent rendering. The main difference I saw between Film Stocks and Exposure was in the grain.
At least in a couple of cases, the only difference I could see was that the grain had a different random seed involved or was overlaid from a different scan. Another could be that both developers started with some of the same film scans, or maybe even shared whatever settings they came up with. I guess one possibility is that someone jumped ship and went to the other company. The grain is smoother at 100%, but the mapping of grayscale values from color seems identical to me. I find it hard to believe that the near perfect matches I found between some of the DFT and Alien Skin films are a coincidence. This DFT conversion should give you a feeling of deja vu if you remember what the Alien Skin version looked like.