![]() There are tabs for Color, Tone, Focus, Grain, IR and Age. On the right side of the Exposure 4 screen, there is a tabbed interface for tweaking the settings. If you miss the days of grainy Tri-X 400 film pushed to 1600 ASA, you need not miss this distinctive look anymore. The presets are nicely grouped and organized by type with a plethora of old black and white film options. There is a whole subset of presets for various cross processing looks which are pretty popular with pro studio photographers right now. Still on the cinema presets, there are four, count ’em, four presets for the “Wizard of Oz” look. ![]() There are several Technicolor presets with various degrees of fading, scratching, etc. I still struggle to overcome my fear of deep water almost 40 years after seeing that movie, but I digress. This plugin also provides presets for old cinema film types with a preset to mimic the look in the movie Jaws. Left clicking on the large preview switches the image back to the original, so you can quickly and easily switch back and forth between the original image and the selected preset. When you click on a preset, the larger center preview quickly updates to show the result. The interface is clean and well designed with presets on the left side directly below a medium sized preview that dynamically updates as you mouse over the list of presets. There are presets for every kind of film that I have ever heard of and more. Exposure 4 allows you to add scratches, noise, and other methods to artificially age your photos. There are options to convert your contemporary images do Daguerrotype, Cyanotype, Calotype, Lith, and Wet Plate methods. It is a comprehensive color adjustment tool that allows you to digitally mimic different types of film going all the way back to the origins of photography. Hopefully I have put together enough examples to make the wait worthwhile.įirst of all, let me just say that if you are a photographer and can only purchase one plugin to use with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, this would be an excellent candidate. In my defense, this plugin packs in so many features that it simply took this long to try out most of the options. ![]() I have finally managed to get my images together for my review of Alien Skin’s Exposure 4 plugin for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. If you buy something through the links on this page, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. It’s up to version 7 and still on sale, but not really part of the photography family.We use affiliate links. You can buy it on its own but, as with Blow Up 3, it’s much better value as part of the Exposure X bundle, above.Įxposure Software was formerly called Alien Skin and its flagship product was the Eye Candy design plug-in for creating all manner of graphic effects for illustrations. There are various software tools and plug-ins for doing this, but Snap Art is one of the best. Photographers often want to turn digital images into realistic-looking paintings, drawings or hand-made illustrations. You can buy it on its own, but it’s much more cost effective to get it as part of the Exposure X bundle, above. It’s not the same as having an image of the required size in the first place, but it’s much better than regular image resampling tools. This is an image resizing tool that increases the size of digital images while preserving image quality and retaining the appearance of sharp edges. ![]()
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