Alien skin exposure x 4 review2/21/2023 ![]() Any presets you’ve built over the years are quickly and easily transferred over automatically. ![]() Not a whole lot of difference on the surface compared to Exposure 5, which in my opinion is just dandy as I’ve felt the last update made the whole program much more seamless and user friendly. ![]() Of course, one would imagine and expect this to be the case with any new software release, but when considering the merging of two very powerful and RAM hungry programs in Exposure and Bokeh, I’ve been impressed how well my meager machine has handled the new version. I’ve been beta testing Exposure 6 for the last month or so and I must say, it is the fastest and most streamlined version of Exposure that I’ve used. Now, Alien Skin has chosen to merge both of these into one super plugin in Exposure 6. Two of my favorites from Alien Skin have always been Exposure for the remarkable film emulation filters, and Bokeh for the focus control. In other words, an entire retro film darkroom on your computer.Alien Skin is a company focused on producing very high end and useful software plugins. At the right of the interface you can perform additional edits to the preset, such as Basic (color and exposure alterations), Detail (sharpening and noise control), Color (filters and saturation), Tone Curve (including split toning), Vignette, Overlays (borders, light effects and textures, as shown below), Focus (sharpen and blur), Grain (amount, type and size), IR (infrared), Bokeh (with easy to use draggable controls and other settings) and even metadata access. In the screenshot below I am working in the “Color Films - Vintage” category (Autochrome preset), which provided the base effect plus soft frame. ![]() This is where the fun begins! At left there is a long list of preset categories covering both black and white and color effects, along with bokeh and alternative process presets. Once you’ve decided on a specific image to work on, simply double-click it and you can enable a large preview of it in the center of the workspace. When you are ready to get started, Exposure offers an incredibly handy image browser, built right in (see below), where you can quickly navigate your hard drive and immediately begin seeing the provided preset effects as they apply to any selected image: If you love film effects, you can spend all day exploring what Exposure has to offer under its various color, black and white and alternative process presets, not to mention focus effects (bokeh). Exposure X is featured in the screenshot at top. We’ll look at each of these plug-ins in the order listed above.
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