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Although their border collection is large, I’m still missing some basics like a simple white or black square, although you can now import your own.Īnother improvement I really like is that it now renders grain accurately across the full dynamic range of your image, a feature I have not seen anywhere else. I’m not as fond of their Black & White emulations, but that might be a personal preference as I like a more modern approach to B&W conversion. I also love the fact that Dust and Scratches can be applied while still looking realistic, and it’s my go-to app when I want to make an image realistically look old and deteriorated. The external editor approach does offer advanced functionality and tweak-ability which you won’t find in the Lightroom preset variety.Įxposure 6 has some of the best colour film simulations out there, and I’m thinking especially of the Polaroid and Vintage film presets. You might find that’s it’s easier to use VSCO and RNI film packs, as they come as presets in Lightroom, while you’ll have to export your images to use the Exposure emulations. I’ve tried most film emulation software, and they all seem to offer something different.
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The updated Alien Skin Exposure 6 offers new functionality (like the Bokeh software now included), nice improvements and a faster and more useable interface. All necessary functionality is available: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Clarity, Vibrance and satiation in either Color or Black and White. You can now tweak basic settings here, something that you had to do in Lightroom first before exporting in previous versions. The basic tab is a new feature, allowing for more independent use of the software. The right-hand tab gives you total control over all the modules used in the presets, and you’ll be able to add unused modules too. These are significant improvements over Exposure 5, and helps with a faster workflow. Once you open up any of the preset folders, previews will start generating. You can also find Tabs per category, which makes for a less cluttered preset browsing experience. There is now a redesigned search function that works very well, always handy if you know the type of film you’re after.
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Preset TabĮxposure 6 has some of the best presets, and most users use them as a starting point. In Exposure 6, you can quickly drag and resize all tabs to get the experience that suits you. The image you’re working on is displayed in the centre, presets on the left and other control tabs on the right. LayoutĪll software editing and effects suites look quite similar. New lighting effects like a sun flare, vintage borders from the archives and you can now import your custom borders and textures and share them across multiple computers.New primary control panel, containing sliders to tweak exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrance and saturation for faster editing.Preset browser now also offers a list view as well as optional thumbnails for a more visual experience.An updated user interface with a cleaner layout for quicker navigation.Automatically displays full-sized instant previews as you mouse over to help you quickly check presets on your images.It features simulations of fast lenses like the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 L, Nikon 300mm f/2.8, Sony 24-70 f/2.8 and also tilt/shift and motion blur looks. Exposure 6 now has their creative focus and lens simulation program, Bokeh.The film types offered range from B&W to colour and darkroom developing techniques. Getting that look that suits your particular image is always a challenge for many photographers, and this software makes it easy by providing loads of film emulations presets as a starting point. The idea is that you do some basic editing in Lightroom and then find the final ‘look’ of your image in Exposure.
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Although you can use it in stand-alone mode, most photographers use it as a plug-in in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. Alien Skin Exposure 6: new features and redesigned user interface IntroductionĮxposure 6 is the latest version of Alien Skin’s film emulation software.