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Alien Skin Exposure X

Alien Skin Exposure X is an all-in-one photo browsing, organising and editing tool that concentrates on replicating classic film and darkroom effects but is also a very effective everyday image-editor, with fully non-destructive editing tools and support for virtual copies.

Lightroom alternatives: which is best?

June 23, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom alternatives

Lightroom is probably the automatic go-to program for enthusiasts and experts looking for an all-in-one photo organising and editing program, but it’s not necessarily the best and it’s not popular with everyone, so many will be looking for Lightroom alternatives.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW

Preset picks: Alien Skin Border – Negative (Kodalith)

June 25, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Preset Picks: This time, Alien Skin’s Border – Negative (Kodalith) preset goes under the microscope. Using just three tools it transforms regular images into super-strong graphic black and white.

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Black and white

How to use LUTs in Alien Skin Exposure X4.5

April 28, 2019 by Rod Lawton

The new LUTs feature introduced in Exposure X4.5 supports one of the newest trends in photography. LUTs (lookup tables) started out in cinematography as a way to apply a specific ‘look’ to a movie or scene, but they’re now catching on in stills photography too. They are like a basic conversion profile, or film simulation […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Tutorials Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, LUTs

The power of adjustment layers and masks

February 14, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Adjustment layers started out in Photoshop as a way of altering the look of an image without actually changing its pixels. It was the start of non-destructive editing. Now, adjustment layers are everywhere, not just in Photoshop, and for me they are the key to successful image enhancements. There’s a second factor, though – layer […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, General, Tutorials Tagged With: Adjustment layer, Alien Skin Exposure X, Graduated filters, Layers, Masks, Presets

Try a black and white high contrast Lith effect

October 12, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Alien Skin Exposure X3 lith border effect

One of the reasons I rate image effects programs so highly compared to traditional image editors is the way they open your eyes to effects you wouldn’t have thought of. Like applying the Lith Border effect in Alien Skin Exposure X3 to this early morning shot of a country church. There’s already a lot of […]

Filed Under: Exposure X Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Black and white

Alien Skin to offer 40% off for a limited time only

July 20, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Alien Skin 40% off summer sale

Alien Skin software is running a four-day summer sale from July 20 to July 24, with an impressive 40% savings on products bought from the Alien Skin online store. This includes Exposure X2, one of my favourite Photoshop alternatives, recently updated to include Advanced Layers. Alien Skin Exposure X2 review This isn’t the only software […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, News Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X

Top 5 Google Nik Collection alternatives

June 7, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Google+ Snapseed editing tools

Google has decided it will no longer develop the Google Nik Collection, so what do we all do when it’s gone? Here are five Nik Collection alternatives that could fill the void. Alien Skin Exposure X2 Once a film simulation plug-in, now a full-blown standalone image-editor with file browsing and non-destructive adjustment layers and masks, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Nik Collection

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