Alien skin exposure x pro#
Alien skin exposure x professional#

Export the file to TIFF, Photoshop PSD or JPEG and re-import into Photoshop where you can use Exposure 7 as a plug-in If you prefer using another RAW decoder, for example Capture One, then by all means do.With Exposure 7 you get the best of both worlds:

Alien skin exposure x professional#

After all, we are dealing with professional - or at the very least serious amateur - imaging and the decoding algorithms do differ quite a bit. Depending on your taste, you could still prefer one of the alternatives besides the decoder used by Alien Skin. In this market space and except for the camera manufacturers’ own software, some four contenders are active delivering slightly different results on RAW decoding alone (Phase One, Apple, Adobe, DxO). Dumb and badly lit image of person in front of furniture - original. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you’ll always have people who prefer using another algorithm. As a developer, if you’re going to decode the RAW image, you’re blurring the line between delivering a filter and a photo editing tool. However, Alien Skin developed and uses its own proprietary RAW decoding algorithm. I wouldn’t have been surprised to learn Alien Skin uses the Apple one, which comes with the OS and is excellent. The “looks” of an image decoded from RAW depends on the demosaicing algorithm used.

With that out of the way, let’s get to business. Only when you use a middleman to launch the app will it fail to load the right mode! Using Exposure 7 for RAW I scratched my head over this one and was almost ready to perform a rain dance, until I decided to launch the app from the Finder. That wouldn’t be a problem if not for the folder browser not showing and you not being able to open images for editing.

If you’re using an app launcher like LaunchBar (my favourite), QuickSilver or Alfred, you won’t be launching the stand-alone mode, but the plug-in mode as a stand-alone app. There’s ony one problem that you’re bound to encounter with the stand-alone mode.

A set of very nice new textures has been added, courtesy renowned photographers Lara Jade, Parker J Pfister and Fundy.Īll of these new features work excellently, which is what you should expect from an established company like Alien Skin.

A bunch of new film emulation presets have been added - again.

Crop & Rotate are easier, with the ability to crop/rotate in one single action.The stand-alone mode comes with a folder browser.The app edits your RAW files non-destructively in stand-alone mode.

Alien skin exposure x pro#

A number of software tools help, including Photoshop, Capture One Pro and DxO Optics Pro as well as specialised tools like the subject of the current review: Alien Skin’s Exposure 7.įirst let’s see where Exposure 7 differs from its predecessor which I reviewed as late as June of 2014: Some photographers are masters at recreating a scene and endowing it with a mood or quality it almost certainly didn’t have when the scene was shot. We all love to enhance our photos - professionals and amateurs alike - whether it be retouching, adding filters or compositing even.