I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of Exposure X4. It’s the latest version of our advanced photo editor and organizer, and it brings with it powerful new capabilities.
I wrote up your request for a waveform mode for the histogram. That is an interesting idea!It’s unlikely that we’ll ever have a Linux version – this is a request I’ve only heard a few times.Exposure X4 will have a feature for preserving the original photo numbering. In the file naming templates, we’re adding a new tag called ‘number suffix’. So if you used it for filename DSC1234.ARW, you’ll get 1234.For the slider sensitivity, you can click a slider to select it, and then adjust with Shift+Mousewheel or Opt+Up/Down arrow.Finally, we’ll have GPU acceleration for a few image processing functions in X4. Expect to see GPU use in future releases.
Alien Skin Exposure X4 Crack is an advanced and nondestructive RAW editor that enables you to create beautiful images and master your entire workflow easily.It comes with fast performance, powerful organizing tools and unmatched creative editing make Exposure the only app you need to transform your photos into works of art quickly.
For what it’s worth, you folks are on the right approach. I think that with the perspective correction I will be able to try using Exposure as my only editor. I appreciate the fact that Fujifilm files work much faster in Exposure than Lightroom, and am excited that it will be even faster. I currently use it conjunction with Lightroom as a plugin, but would like to get off the Adobe monthly rental program and back to buying updates as I need them. I’ve purchased your software as I want to be part of the continuing developments (particularly as DXO doesn’t support Fujifilm at all), so take that as a vote of confidence in your work.
It is really a necessity to have selective image importing from a card so as to insert certain metadata for those shots, going into one folder, and delete others – and if needed, do a separate import of another session/types adding different metadata and different folder – and delete those not needed – in the process. Yes, they can all be imported, selected/deleted/metadata as relevant, move to different folder – but not as clean. I won’t cry considering the rest of the software, but would be a good addition and flexibility.Alien is out of this world and I recommend it to all my students. In the last few years, we’ve done two big releases per year. Last year we released Exposure X3 in October as a paid update, and this spring we released the Exposure X3 Complete Workflow Update as a free update for anyone who owned X3. Our updates are typically $99, so if you buy every update you’d pay around $99/year. We do offer occasional promotions, so if you’re willing to wait for those it’s less than that.We don’t require that you buy every update!
Our support team will happily support old versions, and upgrade pricing is available for owners of any version of Exposure, not just the latest one. So you can decide if the features in the latest version are worth the upgrade price.
Hi John — thanks for commenting. It’s not possible to merge or composite multiple images in Exposure in the way you describe. Photo merging functionality is something we have on our radar.
I will make a note about your interest in that feature in our request logs.Deleting an image directly from a collection isn’t possible. There is not a “Move to the trash” option if you are in a Collection. You can either remove the image from the collection or to choose Jump to Folder.
Once in the images home folder you’ll be able to remove the image from your hard drive completely, which will delete it from the collection. I’m looking forward to X4. Been using Alien Skin products for a long time.I hope X4 will be able to launch from a digital asset manager — Photo Mechanic in my case — with all the features available. The last update had the Crop function missing when launched from Photo Mechanic. Happily, Alien Skin support provided me with a patch version that restored that function.I love your excellent film presets.
I hope you add a LUT tool soon. Perhaps, include some of your own LUTs with a provision for importing third-party LUTS. Well this is exciting! I am just learning today that Exposure x3 has features that make it potentially suitable as a replacement for LightRoom. Like many people I am on a quest to divorce myself from Adobe as I don’t care for renting my work tools.
I had looked into some possible replacements but one thing I was worried about with switching to something else was the stability of the company. I don’t want to invest time into moving to a new platform and redoing countless adjustments only to have the carpet pulled out from under me down the road.
But I don’t think that would be the case with Alien Skin! Heck, poking around on your website I just saw that there is an upgrade path to Eyecandy 7 from that 20 year old copy of Xenofex I have on my shelf! I think it would be great to be a customer of yours again. I will take a close look at the features and be keeping a close eye on this as an option. So far the only sticking points I have found is tethering, (I currently tether to LR on a laptop when working) and perhaps stronger migration tools from LR, but I can understand how difficult that would be, so the fact that you already read some non-image data is pretty cool. I am looking forward to learning more. So glad to read about the new exposure!
I switched from Lightroom to Exposure 2, and then Exposure 3. And from Canon to Fuji. Your instagram page was kind enough to reshare some of my work.
I make you quite promotion here in France, and I plan to write an article about your software.Actually I still use gimp in addition because i do advanced layer merging that are not possible actually with different version of a photo. I would enjoy to see a more integrated version of snap art also.Thanks for your work, and do not hesitate to contact me if you look for ambassador outside the states:). Hello, I have trialed X3 after realizing my LR would have to be upgraded to Adobe’s subscription CC LR due to the fact my new Olympus wasn’t supported in LR4. I loved X3, but due to some budget constraints I couldn’t pay for full license, plus my laptop was damaged (thanks kids!) so need to find a laptop first. I’m now excited to get back to your program, but just wanted to confirm if I buy X3 now, the upgrade to X4 will be free or $99? Any estimate on what the purchase price of X4 will be once released? Maybe I can wait out a little longer (been using snap seed on my phone).Thank you for what you do!
I’m glad I learned about the Alien group!. The new release looks like it’s going to be incredible.Regarding the monitored folder setup for tethered workflows, I’m curious, will there be some sort of support or pipeline for Pentax?I shoot with the K1 and currently have no options for tethered shooting. C1 doesn’t offer any type of option and, though there is a plug-in from Pentax, LR is abysmal and unreliable.If there’s a way to use Pentax, specifically the K1, for the tethered workflow, you would be able to offer something that it much needed and currently unavailable.Thanks!-J:). I am using a lot of vintage lenses such as a 1973 28mm, a 1988 300mm 2.8, a 55 1.2. Also a quite modern 12mm 2.8They all have in common that chromatic aberrations need correcting and especially the 55 needs some fine tuned highlight editing.needless to say, I’d be chuffed if there was a way to integrate the LR tool with exposure. I use LR 5.5 as I don’t want to jump on the subscription, too expensive for me.What do you suggest?Also, would there be a way to integrate your own lens models in Exposure? Even better, if users could share those?.
Thanks for commenting, Annette. Chromatic aberration correction is something we have on our list of features we’d like to add in future versions of Exposure. I’ll add a note to our feature log about your interest in it. It is not planned for the Exposure X4 release.Exposure doesn’t officially support Lightroom 5.5, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work with it.
When you run the Exposure installer, make sure you quit out of all Photoshop and Lightroom applications before running the installer. The host selection step should detect all compatible host programs. Make sure yours is checked and complete the installation. Once done the plug-in should be available in Lightroom using “Edit in.”Regarding support of vintage glass, we need example images from each of the lenses to develop lens correction profiles.
Would you be interested in supplying us with photos to use for testing? Let’s have you fill out a and we’ll share instructions for what we would need. Thanks for commenting, Toni. When Exposure is first installed it needs to build a pre-render cache. This takes some time and will effect performance initially. Once the cache is built you can expect much quicker performance. It sounds like you may be having trouble with this, so I recommend allowing Exposure to run in the background overnight.
This should allow sufficient time to Exposure to complete the cache generation and you should find performance to be much better. If it still gives you trouble, let’s get you in contact with our. They’ll take a close look at what might be causing that on your computer. Im very happy to see where Exposure is going.I wish to see the following in future updates.-LUT support is one of important things Exposure needs to have.I cannot name any other photo or video edit editing app that does not have LUT support.Even photoshop has LUT support. LUTS are a standard and a big deal.-Preset managementThe option to hide the default presets because it takes too much space.And I just want to see my favorites and my own categories.-rename preset categories or dragging presets from one category to another.
You can move a preset to another category but you cant drag and drop or rename your own categories.Doesnt make sense.-Saving a window layoutGreat new layout options in X4 but you cant save a layout. Must have!-Custom keyboard shortcuts-option to hide border or texture panel when you only use Light effects.-option to disable mouse click to zoom image behaviour. Very annoying with wacom or trackpads. Adobe will never do it.
I hope Alien Skin will:)-keystone/upright-jpg mini plugin support-to have the crop panel visible all the time and not closing as soon you use a radial brush for example.Selecting a tool shouldnt close a panel by itself.Not good for muscle memory and it makes the interface nervous on the eyes.I also would suggest to make the toolbar a real toolbar. With all the tools sitting together.
Wb, crop, radial, gradient, spot etc.Now they are in 3 different places and the icons are the size of pixel.-mapping keyboard shortcuts to user presets.I use controllermate to do this now but this is done with on screen mouse macro’s. Works really well but its not ideal because they have to be visible on screen coordinates.Most of these suggestions are pretty basic and a welcome addition to this already fantastic app i think.Keep up the good work!.
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