ALIEN SKIN EXPOSURE X 4 REVIEW LICENSE

Presets and styles augment the app’s familiar photo editing tools such as exposure, vibrance, noise reduction, and sharpening. After choosing a preset, you can then experiment further with film grain, vignettes, borders, textures, and light leaks. With your image in the main window, quickly mouse and hover through the categories to instantly preview changes to both images and settings. It also includes numerous film and slide types, styles, and special effects like daguerreotype, autochrome, lo-fi, bokeh, infrared, cross processing, split toning, color fading, and more. The Autochrome filter harks back to a color process developed in 1907, which combined layers of dyed potato starch grains on glass plates. Exposure X stylizes a scene for a distinctive look by simulating both old and modern films with 15 categories of color and 12 categories of black and white in familiar brands like Agfa, Kodak, Fuji, and others. To fulfill the artistic impulse to connect with and replicate that old-time flair, Alien Skin’s Exposure X (US$149) is available as a standalone photo filter or plug-in to Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, offering myriad presets and variations.

What’s missing to contemporary shutterbugs is film’s atmospheric aura. No, not the suspense of anticipating the quality of a 36-picture roll, or the risk of blowing an entire shoot with a tiny mistake, or the time and chemistry required for developing and printing.

ALIEN SKIN EXPOSURE X 4 REVIEW LICENSE

At the same time, it also offers a viable alternative to Lightroom, which recently made the transition from standalone perpetual license to joining the subscription family.With digital photography now nearly an obsession, it’s surprising the extent to which so many shooters-including those who came of age in the digital era-miss the look of film. As a plug-in to Photoshop and Lightroom, Exposure gives you the choice of sticking with Adobe’s subscription-based Creative Cloud and still getting the benefit of a tremendous number of beloved film-based presets. Bottom lineĪlien Skin Exposure X4 is a streamlined, intuitive image editor with most of the editing controls you need and many more that will give your images an artistic boost. Importing images from a camera card offers lots of naming and metadata options.

Lightroom users get an extra incentive to ditch Adobe’s subscriptions with Exposure’s new Lightroom Migration Tool, which can convert Lightroom folders to Exposure bookmarks while retaining metadata like flags, keywords, labels and more.Ĭopying images from a camera card into Exposure gives you vast flexibility in naming conventions, metadata, and even the ability to automatically apply presets to the new images, but you can’t preview images before importing them. The app does not display thumbnails of videos stored with images, and they show up as inelegant blank white placeholders. For those organizing in Apple’s Photos app, an undocumented workaround lets you peer into the desktop Photos Pictures package and then drag the Masters folder into the Finder Sidebar to make images stored in Apple Photos immediately accessible to Exposure X4. Because the app is targeted to more advanced users, Alien Skin assumes that users were organizing photos in Lightroom rather than Apple Photos and the app does not see directly into your Photos Pictures folder.

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