Archipelago Presets vs Mextures
Archipelago Presets
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| Figure | Archipelago Presets | Mextures |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.25/mo | $7.42/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 5 |
| Spec score · Photo Preset Libraries | 8.1 (#6) | 8.2 (#5) |
| Audience | The maker describes its products as built by photographers for photographers and highlights workflows for wedding, portrait, family, and editorial work. | The maker describes the collection as suitable for photographers, filmmakers, and designers, including landscape, portrait, macro, album art, matte painting, social media, and blogs. |
| Founded | 2007 | 2012 |
| Product | Archipelago sells Lightroom presets, profiles, toolsets, video LUTs, and other photography-related digital products. | Mextures offers photo editing textures, overlays, film presets, and apps for creating film-like effects. |
| Support | The support page offers FAQs, installation instructions, order recovery, and a contact route to the support team. | The Console page directs questions to [email protected]. |
Plans
Archipelago Presets
- Archipelago Society$15 a year
- Portrait Toolset LR/ACR$80, paid once
- Afterglow Lightroom Presets$120, paid once
- Eternal Lightroom Workflow$198, paid once
- Kin Lightroom Workflow$198, paid once
Mextures
- X-Film Overlay Pack$10 a month
- Mextures Yearly Membership$89 a year
- ConsoleFree
- Mextures Photo Editor$1.99, paid once
- Mextures Lifetime Membership$139, paid once
In their own words
Archipelago Presets
Archipelago Presets has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Mextures
Mextures offers photo-editing textures, overlays, film presets, and apps for creating film-like effects. Its iOS editor supports unlimited layers that can be moved, hidden, rotated, and adjusted for opacity. The product page lists more than 200 stackable textures, including grain, dust, light leaks, and color gradients, along with 30 film presets and more than 300 Formulas. Formula Manager lets users import Formulas from others and export their own to share. Console is a free Photoshop plugin in beta; it works with Photoshop CC 2016–2023 on Windows 10 or newer and macOS 11 or newer. The maker warns that the current Console version crashes with the latest Photoshop and macOS Sonoma. Film Presets are compatible with Console, Lightroom CC 2021/2022, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere, with separate software-specific versions required for separate purchases. They are not conversion LUTs, so RAW or LOG footage needs to be normalized first. Listed options include the iOS app at 1.99 USD once and the X-Film Overlay Pack at $10 a month.