Even without reading and documentation you will be up and running in no time. From Lightroom ‘Edit in Exposure 4’ launches the Exposure plugin and it fires up pretty quickly. For the purposes of this review I was using it mainly within Lightroom but I also tried it from Elements and Photoshop too and it felt properly integrated into them all. It sort of is but in another way this comparison belittles Exposure 4. But we’ll get back to price in minute for now let's look at what Exposure 4 can do for you. From the cheap (though not cheap for Facebook) Instagram at one end to plugins like Aliens Skin’s Exposure 4 at the other. But I digress for the rest of us who want the flavor of analog processes without the toxic chemicals there are many options at many price points. Admittedly, a lot of ‘digital sucks’ hipsters never knew a time when there wasn’t a choice between analog and digital and, like most new converts, they have been born-again as puritanical zealots.
The promise of never having to spot a print again was a Nirvana I couldn’t wait to inhabit.įast forward a decade or more and the popularity of Instagram and the Impossible Project and their like demonstrate a thirst for an analog feel in a digital age.
When digital came along, I for one couldn’t wait to leave behind problems with dust and scratches and the inconsistency of chemicals. The funny thing is, back then we were usually trying to make perfectly clean, neutral, realistic images and we often cursed the affects the analog process imposed on us. In other words, an entire retro film darkroom on your computer.In a perfectly clean, digital world it is easy to romanticize the film look and the results we achieved after spending hours in a chemical darkroom in the past. At the right of the interface you can perform additional edits to the preset, such as Basic (color and exposure alterations), Detail (sharpening and noise control), Color (filters and saturation), Tone Curve (including split toning), Vignette, Overlays (borders, light effects and textures, as shown below), Focus (sharpen and blur), Grain (amount, type and size), IR (infrared), Bokeh (with easy to use draggable controls and other settings) and even metadata access.
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In the screenshot below I am working in the “Color Films - Vintage” category (Autochrome preset), which provided the base effect plus soft frame.
This is where the fun begins! At left there is a long list of preset categories covering both black and white and color effects, along with bokeh and alternative process presets. Once you’ve decided on a specific image to work on, simply double-click it and you can enable a large preview of it in the center of the workspace. When you are ready to get started, Exposure offers an incredibly handy image browser, built right in (see below), where you can quickly navigate your hard drive and immediately begin seeing the provided preset effects as they apply to any selected image: If you love film effects, you can spend all day exploring what Exposure has to offer under its various color, black and white and alternative process presets, not to mention focus effects (bokeh). Exposure X is featured in the screenshot at top. We’ll look at each of these plug-ins in the order listed above.
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