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Your chosen image or folder of images sit front and center between two columns of informational displays and controls. There's really no escaping the fact that right out of the box, Exposure X5 looks a whole lot like its dominant arch-rival, Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Click through for the full version.Ī bit rough around the edges compared to Lightroom Take a look at all 500+ presets at your disposal over at Exposure's site.īrowsing images in Exposure X5 in the default view. Exposure X5 also gains greyscale TIFF and JPEG support, new horizontal / vertical flip controls and an undockable, resizeable tone curve editor. You can keep aberrations on an even tighter leash with a new Defringe tool, and you can profile your own cameras for better color out of the box.Īlso new to your toolbox are more presets than ever before, as well as support for more camera and lens profiles.
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You can profile your own cameras for better color out of the boxĮxposure Software has also added tools to correct chromatic aberrations and vignetting, and extended the distortion correction tool to allow for manual corrections.

On the masking front there's a new 3D Color Masking tool which allows you to quickly make complex layer masks based on subject hue, saturation and luminance ranges, allowing other adjustments to precisely target your intended subject. The most significant changes are to be found in two main areas: Masking and lens correction. But that's not to say there aren't any significant changes on the contrary, there are several upgrades that are well worth having. The step from the Alien Skin-developed X4 to the Exposure Software-produced X5 is very much an evolutionary one, with many features carried over unchanged. Great upgrades to masking and lens correction Results of the new Complementary - Orange and Teal filter.

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But then, Exposure X5's perpetual license doesn't vanish into the ether if you decide not to pay for an upgrade in a year's time. In fairness to the company, that gets you not just the Exposure X5-rivaling Lightroom but also Adobe Photoshop. And even if you add both the Snap Art and Blow Up plugins for artistic effects and easier enlargements, the pricetag still comes in below $150.Īdobe, meanwhile, charges you $120 every year for an ongoing Creative Cloud photography plan subscription. Without adding on any of Exposure Software's other tools, you can get the full Exposure X5 experience for just $119, almost two-thirds less than a perpetual Capture One License at $299. Not much more than a Benjamin, with no subscriptions in sightĪnd yet despite its depth and swiftness, it's also extremely affordable.
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It also boasts a treasure trove of manual adjustments plus a vast library of quick yet professional-looking presets. Blazing-fast browsing and editing that won't vanish into the ether if you don't upgrade every yearĪn alternative to the likes of Adobe's category-dominating Lightroom or Phase One's popular Capture One, Exposure X5 stands out from its rivals thanks to its blazing-fast image browsing and editing.

And while it's grown vastly across the 14 major updates launched since then, its interface should still prove fairly familiar to anyone who's used it in at least the past five or six years since the basic UI was defined by the sixth and seventh versions.
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Since the last release, Alien Skin has changed its name to match that of its most popular and best-known app, and now goes by Exposure Software.Įxposure's roots can be traced all the way back to a 2006-vintage film simulation plugin for Photoshop. Although we've reviewed both of its immediate predecessors – Alien Skin Exposure X3 and X4 – here at DPReview, I'm personally a newcomer to the long-running and retroactively-eponymous Exposure series.
