How can the answer be improved? Apr 2, 2019 - On the 2nd of April Alien Skin Software announced the release of a major update to their already feature rich non-destructive raw photo editor,.
I’m excited to announce the release of, the newest version of our award-winning photo editor and organizer. Powerful new features and a giant leap forward in RAW processing quality make Exposure X4 the best choice for creating beautiful photos.Among the new features are the following: RAW Processing EnhancementsImproved shadow and highlight recovery enables you to extract the maximum amount of detail from your RAW images, and faster photo processing times speed up your editing. Fully Adjustable Light EffectsExposure’s high-quality light effects are now fully adjustable, so you can rotate and place them anywhere in your image, enabling a whole new level of creative possibilities. Transform ToolsExposure’s new transform tools enable you to easily correct tilted or skewed perspective, such as keystoning of buildings. Smart CollectionsExposure now helps you organize your photo library by automatically populating collections based on camera data and metadata criteria that you apply.
Shutter speed, keywords, ratings, and color labels are just some of the metadata that Exposure queries to build a smart collection. It’s a great way to speed up your photo library organization, helping you quickly find specific images in your collection.
Monitored Folders for Tethered ShootingYou can now edit, cull, and share your images in Exposure with a client or subject during a shoot thanks to Exposure’s new monitored folders that support tethered shooting. You can even have Exposure automatically apply one or more of its gorgeous presets to your images immediately after you take them. Speed EnhancementsImage rendering is now up to 30% faster, file exporting is now up to 60% faster, and launch times have been reduced by a third, thanks to improvements in Exposure’s rendering engine.
Additional Features. Support for new cameras and lenses. Print presets for easy printing straight from Exposure.
Lightroom migration tool helps you move your workflow from Lightroom to Exposure. Expanded workflow options that improve image copying and exportingVisit the to see a full list of the new features.If you purchased Exposure X3 on or after July 1st, 2018, we’ll be sending you a free upgrade to Exposure X4 soon.
If you purchased any version of Exposure before July 1st, you can use your license code to upgrade to Exposure X4 for the upgrade price of $99. Thanks for your feedback about the shadows recovery. We’ll make sure the design team hears it.Duplicating layers will also duplicate the effects of the layer, which is likely what is causing the blue/green coloring issue. You can r-click on the layer in the Layers panel and select Reset Adjustments from the r-click menu to remove any effects from the layer.Let’s get you in contact with our support team about the slowness you’re experiencing. It could be caused by your computer configuration. Hi,I’ve been working with Exposure since X2, and it has a lot to offer, but one thing disappoints me: it seems that it does not apply automatic lens corrections (i.e. Those communicated in the camera metadata, and which effectively are part of the lens design).
Pretty much every other serious Raw converter does this, so it’s hard to understand why Exposure does not. Exposure’s own corrections (when they exist), which might be appropriate at a second level, are not a good replacement for the manufacturer corrections. X4 is no different, although it supports more lenses. Also, Exposure does not recognise the default imaging area, but recovers extra pixels – this is a nice to have in some cases, but it should be an option, not a default. I want my Raw convertor to show me the view I framed, not something else. Until Exposure does these things, for me it can’t be a primary solution.(for example, none of the Olympus f/1.2 primes are supported, either in X3 or X4.
In fact the list of support m43 lenses is pretty short. This is nuts, because you don’t, or shouldn’t, need to do anything to support these lenses apart from 1-time code to support manufacturer corrections). Thanks for commenting, David. Exposure can have trouble detecting the proper lens.
If that happens you may have to manually select it in the Lens Correction panel. The lens distortion corrections in Exposure are automatically applied to your photos if the lens is recognized and supported.
Additionally, you can turn the panel, including any effects applied to your image using the controls on that panel, off to see a before and after.Thanks for passing along the feedback about the extra pixels. I’ve passed that along to our developers to look into.We have a list of all the lenses Exposure supports on our website,.
If your lenses aren’t on this list, that doesn’t mean they won’t work. There are plenty of lenses that Exposure supports that we haven’t had the chance to put through our rigorous testing procedures, yet.
If you own lenses that aren’t displayed on that list, are you interested in submitting some for us to use for testing and internal evaluation?. Thanks for commenting! There isn’t an automatic way to migrate presets from Lightroom to Exposure, but experimenting with settings combinations can usually recreate effects made in Lightroom. However, the look will not be recreated in Exposure using the same controls at the same amounts from Lightroom.Exposure uses internal camera profiles to interpret the RAW image data, which are calibrated to be as neutral as possible. This is very different to the way Lightroom renders RAW files. Exposure does this to make its film preset simulations as accurate as possible.
In this episode, I demo a major feature update in Exposure X4 ver 4.5. This update is free to all users of Exposure X4.Since I recorded this video, I was able to redo my marketplace so the LUTs are now on their own page:There are 3 different package of LUT files with each package containing 25 LUTs. All three packages are being distributed as donationware. If you choose to donate, THANK YOU!Try Exposure X4 out for yourself. They offer a free 30 day trial:If you decide to purchase the software, use the Discount Code: AnthonyMorganti to save 10% (no space - all one word and the code is not case sensitive)In this video series, I'll go over in detail how to use Alien Skin Exposure X4.Alien Skin is not paying me to do these videos - actually, nobody is paying to do these videos but, I am an Alien Skin affiliate. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement here:Please support these free training videos.
More info here:Soon, I will be selling my own custom Alien Skin Presets. Look for them in my Marketplace.