Alien Skin Software Exposure 4 for Mac and PC

Lightroom Compatibility

• Exposure 4 is compatible with Lightroom 2 or later.
• Photoshop is not required to use Exposure 4 from Lightroom.
• This software supports Batch Processing when multiple files are selected.

New in Version 4

Improved User Interface

A redesigned user interface makes Exposure 4 much easier to use.
• Everything is faster and more interactive.
• Group presets help you explore the custom effects easily.
• Unified Filters: Black and white and color filters are combined so you can find all the effects in this software.
• Thumbnail Preview: You can hover over a setting to preview it in the thumbnail.
• Fast Text Search: You can find settings based on the name or description.

New Controls and Effects

New controls let you create custom-looks quickly and intuitively.
• Texture effects (light leaks, dust and scratches, borders).
• New controls let you create black and white effects more easily (more color channels, black and white color filter, split toning control).
• New controls let you create custom color effects more easily (more saturation channels, color split toning).
• Color infrared film provides psychedelic color shifts.

New Presets

Many presets have been improved and new ones have been added.
• New textures help you recreate historical photographic processes like Cyanotype, Lith printing and Wet Plate Photography.
• Lo-Fi toy camera presets are more realistic and use light leaks and organic textures.

What's Already Great

Realistic Grain

Exposure 4's grain is carefully researched and realistic, unlike the digital speckles rendered by other software. Like actual grain, it clumps and is strongest in the midtones. Grain size scales with your image size, just like real photographic enlargement.

Non-Destructive Editing

Exposure 4 supports a non-destructive workflow that makes experimentation easy. Effects in Photoshop are rendered on a new layer, leaving your original image untouched. In Photoshop, this software can be run as a Smart Filter for easy tweaking of the effect after it is created. Batch processing is supported with actions in Photoshop and through tight integration in Lightroom.

Multithreaded

Exposure 4 takes advantage of multiple processors and multiple cores in order to run fast on modern computers. This software runs faster with the increase in number of cores.

Huge Range of Effects

The Exposure 4 handles many techniques of film photography like:

- Black and White Films:
• Agfa APX
• Agfa Scala
• Fuji Neopan
• Ilford Delta
• Ilford HP5
• Kodak PLUS-X
• Kodak Panatomic-X
• Kodak T-MAX
• Kodak TRI-X
• Kodak Technical Pan

- Color Print Films:
• Fuji Pro C, S, and H
• Fuji Reala
• Kodak Portra NC
• Kodak Portra VC
• Kodak Ultra Color UC

- Color Slide Films:
• Agfa RSX II
• Agfachrome
• Fuji Astia
• Fuji Provia
• Fuji Velvia
• GAF
• Ektachrome EES, G, GX and VX

- Other Effects:
• Kodachrome, every variation from 1936 to the present day
• Polaroid, including Polapan and Polachrome
• Technicolor
• Infrared
• Early photographic processes, including Autochrome, Calotype and Daguerreotype
• Color toning for B&W photos, many variations including split toning
• Blur caused by plastic lenses
• Glamour Shots soft focus
• Vignette, wide range of shapes
• Dust and scratches
• Cross processing, many variations
• Wide range of Lo-Fi presets to simulate cheap plastic cameras
• Wide range of fading and aging effects
• Bleach Bypass