Re: Alien Skin Exposure X2 2.7.0.174
Joseph Zyiuahndy
Does anyone know if exposure can export metadata, rating and keywords to sidecar files that are readable by third party programs? I know it can import xmp sidecar files, but can it export to them as well? I really don't want to build a library with exposure only to find out that I locked myself in because no other program can read the data.
The edits are stored in the .xmp file, but are not read by Bridge (or Photoshop) because they're saved using Exposure's values; i.e., someone else with Exposure can open the file and see all the edits, but someone with Photoshop could not. (You were just asking about metadata, I know, but I thought it worth pointing this out.)
digital looks to perfect or why does people love that instagram and other stuff to make it less perfect?
millions of photographer using the same exposure 4 effects.. thats not what i call creative.
maybe people use instagram, exposure and co. because out of camera all digital images look so similiar. but then when everyone uses a plugin the images will look similiar again...
keep in mind.. only because you have a plugin you dont have to use it on ALL your images!!
Agreed with Lee. You can work on your own "creative" improvements to the photos all you want starting from exposure composition and in camera stuff, then in lightroom, then finally this is one other tool to give a finish. I would call it attention to detail.
The accuracy of these presets don't come anywhere near the depth and complexity of chemical emulsion. It's pretty much impossible to replicate the true intricacy (and deviance) of a film's reactions to changes in colour, exposure and processing, but this is a fairly weak effort. I don't know what that flower bouquet is supposed to look like, but it sure as hell isn't Ektachome.
but 2020 does not show up, is there any way around this, I often click a layer in photo shop and send it to exposure 7. and it would be really inconvenient and time consuming to have to do it other ways.
One thing I noticed when applying edits in X3 is that the sliders seem more sensitive than those in Lightroom. For example, adjusting a slider by a certain amount in X3 produces more of an effect than adjusting the corresponding slider in LR the same amount. Here is an example. In this image, I adjusted the Whites and Blacks sliders until I just began to clip the image. In X3 I did not need to be quite as heavy handed with the sliders. This takes a bit of getting used to. At first, I found that I was over-doing my edits. However, once I realized that it was easier to make fine exposure adjustments using the shortcut keys, rather than using a mouse or even using a stylus and tablet, I did not have any issues.
You can modify a mask using any combination of the brush tool, or three different gradient tools (radial, planer and half planer). And the opacity of the active tool on any mask can have its opacity adjusted independently. To illustrate this take a look at the screenshot here. After doing some basic edits for exposure on the bottom layer, I added a black and white layer. To this layer, I created a mask by applying an oval radial mask reduced to 50% opacity, added a horizontal planer mask and dropped its opacity to 75%, added a vertical half planer mask to the right side of the image and finished the mask off by painting with a brush in eraser mode. Not something I would normally do, but for illustrative purposes, it works!
However, for professionals and for users who depend on features such as chromatic aberration corrections, perspective control corrections, and more robust lens corrections, then Exposure is not up to the task, at least quite yet. I am hopeful that Alien Skin will address many of these shortcomings in future updates. And to give them full credit, they appear to be listening to what users are asking for. At that time, Exposure will become a real contender in the RAW processor race. Until that time though, I am saddened to say that I will have to maintain my tempestuous relationship with Lightroom for a bit longer.
Elizabeth grew up in Vancouver, on the beautiful West Coast of Canada. In 2012 she relocated to Houston Texas for two years and then moved to Gautier, Mississippi in July of 2014 for another three years. Now back in Vancouver, Elizabeth runs photography workshops and teaches many aspects of photography. Her areas of interest are widespread and include street, wildlife, nature, architecture, macro and long exposures. She is particularly passionate about black and white images. You can see more of her work on her website at www.photographybyelizabethgray.com or on Instagram at photosbyelizabethgray
And, while layers and masking are available in Exposure X4, as with Lightroom, it is not possible to do image compositing. That said, since Exposure X4 can functions as a Photoshop plug-in as well as a standalone application, you can easily use the features, including the presets, in Exposure X4 and move back to Photoshop for compositing.
The new version also lets you pick and choose how to selectively apply adjustments with new brush and layer tools. Combined brush and erase tools let you pinpoint and fine tune your effects. You can also touch up portraits with skin smoothing, teeth whitening, and eye enhancements alongside traditional dodge and burn tools.
It is very important that you first colour correct and balance your image before applying a 3D LUT. All of our 3D LUTs are calibrated to work correctly with properly exposed and balanced images. This means you should balance and correct any exposure, white balance and contrast issues prior to applying one of the LUTs.
- An innovative new masking tool which enables you to make selections by quickly drawing a rough border.
- Editing workspaces organize panels needed for a particular task. Use the included culling, editing, and retouching workspaces or create new ones customized for your specific needs.
- Crop and transform have been united in a single easy-to-use interface. Additionally, new composition guides have been added.
- New defective pixel removal is available for raw photos.
- More faithful color reproduction when using custom DCP color profiles
- Improved color fidelity with DNG files
- Fine texture noise can be added to recover detail with aggressive noise reduction.
Alien Skin has added other features to X3, including linear and radial gradient tools, new overlays (and a batch overlay import option), along with new sliders for Blacks and Whites, Orange and Purple color saturation sliders, and a few others. You can find the full list of features, with the new additions highlighted, at alienskin.com/features.
Using guinea pigs of strains 2 and 13 and their F(1) hybrids as experimental subjects, various lines of evidence have been obtained that in this species, as in all others tested, the only significant cellular antigens with which donor lymphocytes engage when normal and immune lymphocyte reactions are incited are radiosensitive leukocytes. Constitutive cells of the skin are unimportant. (a) The intensities of these reactions in irradiated subjects are dependent upon the peripheral leukocyte concentration. When this falls below a certain threshold no reactions are incitable. (b) Highly leukopenic animals are capable of developing immune lymphocyte transfer (ILT) reactions if normal lymphoid cells of their own genetic constitution are mixed with the putative attacking donor cells, as "supplementing antigen," before inoculation. (c) Radiation-chimeric strain 13 animals having F(1) hybrid leukocytes in their bloodstream give typical ILT reactions when challenged intradermally with strain 13 anti-2 node cells. Exposure of strain 2 animals to 600 R does not prevent their becoming actively immunized if, 24 hr later, they are injected intradermally with strain 13 lymphocytes. However, this sensitization, revealed by the host's capacity to give delayed hypersensitivity reactions, wanes as leukopenia progresses. On the basis of this and other findings it is argued that the flare-up stage of the NLT reaction in preirradiated hosts is mainly an expression of host sensitivity against the transferred alien cells. Two unexpected observations have been made in the course of this study: (a) F(1) hybrid animals developed what appeared to be a strong delayed hypersensitivity after intradermal inoculation with parental strain lymphoid cells or antigenic extracts prepared from them. (b) If strain 13 guinea pigs which had been sensitized against strain 2 tissue antigens by intradermal injection of lymphocytes 7 days beforehand were inoculated intravenously with strain 2 antigenic extract a significant proportion of the animals developed severe delayed necrotizing reactions, recall flares, at some or all of the healed skin inoculation sites.
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