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The other issue I have is with the "highlights" and "shadows" sliders. You can see the difference in the screenshots below. With that said, there are also awesome sliders in Exposure X3 that are not as well implemented - or implemented at all in some cases - in other photo editors I've used.

For example, the Overlays editing pane works very well, the Grain pane is neat, the IR pane is unique and the Bokeh pane is very cool. The latter of which allows you to simulate lens bokeh in a user-customizable way and it works quite well.

In addition to these features, Exposure X3 includes new "oranges" and "purples" color saturation sliders, which are excellent additions. Overall, basically everything you expect from a photo editor is present in Exposure X3 along with some distinct sliders that are not commonly found in competing software. While I wish that the highlights recovery worked better and that Exposure X3 offered more control over color, the overall photo editing process works well and there are some unique offerings in the software.

Black and white photo editing in Exposure X3 is very nice. Not only are there are a large variety of black and white presets available, the sliders for Color Sensitivity work well to fine-tune your black and white conversion. You don't have the same "oranges" and "purples" sliders you have when working with a color image, but you have plenty of control. I really like the results I was able to get doing black and white conversions inside of Exposure.

Since Exposure X2. The layers system works well and allows for a lot of flexibility in your editing workflow. With Exposure X3, the software's selective editing workflow has been further improved thanks to new radial and linear gradients options. In addition to these gradients, the software continues to offer brushing. You can control the size, feather and flow of the brush and you can edit with a visible mask, which helps when making subtle changes to images.

One of my favorite features of the selective editing in Exposure X3 is that you can utilize "A" and "B" brushes. Sometimes I want a big brush for certain edits and a much smaller brush for other edits. In X3, I can quickly switch between two custom-sized brushes rather than have to keep changing the size of a single brush. It's a small thing, but it helps save a lot of time during intensive selective editing. You can also use Exposure X3 as a Photoshop plug-in rather than standalone software - it can also be used within Lightroom but honestly I don't see the point unless you really love the Lightroom user interface.

I like using Exposure X3 within Photoshop to access the presets and the black and white conversions in particular. A viable Lightroom competitor with good organizational tools and a strong suite of editing functions. Pretty cool stuff. Recently I was after a good film simulation for one of my projects. I was shooting both digital and film Kodak Portra so I needed a tool to match digital photos to analog ones with no much hassle.

I tried Exposure 6 and… it was not terribly bad… but the results were quite different from the real film. So I am not sure if it worth the money spent. Finally I found a decent film simulation. It was a pack of Lightroom filters from Reallyniceimages Iconic Films 2. They already released the version 2 in May with now the full usage of the U-Points. Thanks for the review, Matt! I love those discounts. The first tab is Settings, which is a list of the presets this plug-in offers.

You can either choose the film effect or any other photo effect you want. The preview window will show you what the final image is going to look like.

If not? Well, try other tabs, where you can fine-tune the effect by changing different settings. You have sliders that control the settings of exposure, contrast, shadows and highlights, whites and blacks, clarity, vibrance, and saturation. There is no autocorrect feature, though. Denoising works the way it does in the majority of image editing apps: there are sliders that allow you to reduce color or brightness noise.

It has the same drawback all noise reduction features have, a lot of detail and definition in the image will be lost. Another type of adjustment available in Alien Skin Exposure is Lens correction based on your lens model it is similar to the one you have in Lightroom. It is still less efficient than the one you get from its competitor. Finally, there are several tools and adjustments that are a big advantage of Alien Skin. These are the dehaze tool, chromatic aberration, fringing correction, and vignette correction.

The Tone tab is where you can control the contrast. It is slightly similar to the way curves work in Photoshop but is more convenient. You can adjust contrast in the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights by changing the curve itself or moving the sliders. The blue line on the diagram will show how much the curve changed after you moved a slider. If you are using an older version, you can also purchase an update.