Alien Skin Exposure 4.0.0.433 | Mac OSX
Enjoy all the creative tools of film photography, such as discontinued films, dark room tricks, and lo-fi camera quirks. We accurately simulate classic films, like Kodachrome, Polaroid, and Panatomic-X. The result is a photo that looks like it was made by a human, not a computer. There is careful research under the hood, but we keep the controls simple so you can focus on your art. Exposure 4 has a completely redesigned user interface that helps you quickly develop your own look. Across the board everything is faster and much easier to use.
Features
What’s New
Improved User Interface
A redesigned user interface makes Exposure 4 much easier to use.
Everything is faster and more interactive.
Unified Filters. Black and White and Color filters are combined so you can find all the effects in one place.
Group presets let you explore custom effects easily.
Thumbnail Preview. Hover over a setting to preview it in the thumbnail.
Fast text search. Find settings based on 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, B/W 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 added. Visit our examples page for a sampling of some of the hundreds of presets.
New textures help you recreate historical photographic processes like Cyanotype, Lith printing and Wet Plate Photography.
Lo-Fi toy camera presets are now more realistic using light leaks and organic textures.
What’s Already Great
Realistic Grain
Exposure’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 supports a non-destructive workflow, making experimentation easy. Effects in Photoshop are rendered on a new layer, leaving your original image untouched. In Photoshop, Exposure 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 takes advantage of multiple processors and multiple cores in order to run fast on modern computers. The more cores, the faster Exposure runs.
Huge Range of Effects
For a quick overview, here are some of the techniques of film photography that Exposure handles. These are just the tip of the iceberg.
Black & 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 & 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
Host Requirements
This product requires one of the following host applications:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 or later
Adobe Lightroom 2 or later
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 or later
System Requirements
1024×768 or greater monitor resolution
Macintosh:
Intel Core 2 processor
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
