Exposure is the best photo editor for creative photographers who want to create artistic images.
Its large library of gorgeous looks provides inspiring starting points that you can customize. Unique creative tools not found in other photo editors help your photos stand out. And Exposure’s efficient workflow keeps you in the creative zone.
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Gorgeous Looks
An extensive selection of beautiful film presets puts the history of photography at your fingertips.
Carefully researched with the help of experienced film photographers, Exposure has the largest and most accurate selection of film looks available. Exposure’s creative looks go beyond film simulation, offering you new creative styles such as clean modern looks.
You can customize each of Exposure’s built-in looks, then save it as a unique look that expresses your own style. Reuse your customized presets to achieve consistent looks across all your work with a single click.
Unique Creative Tools
Exposure has creative tools you won’t find in any other photo editor.
These tools include realistic film grain, creative lens focus and tilt-shift effects, and a huge number of creative overlays -- light effects, textures, and borders.
Exposure’s design encourages you to work creatively. Apply effects selectively to specific areas of your image with brushing and masking tools. Non-destructive layers enable you to blend presets and adjustments for an endless variety of looks.
Focus on your Art
Exposure’s intuitive design helps you focus on creativity.
Its workflow is reliable, efficient, and respectful of your hard drive space. This helps you spend less time managing files and more on creating beautiful images.
Exposure puts everything you need onscreen in a single user interface that can be customized to suit your workflow preferences. Transition seamlessly between organizing and editing without having to switch between modules.
Choose from hundreds of creative looks using Exposure’s visual preset browser.
Features
500+ customizable presets
(New) 3D Color Masking
Complete non-destructive RAW photo editor
Photoshop and Lightroom plug-in support included
Black-and-white processing
Non-destructive layers
Keywords, collections, and smart collections
Virtual copies
Portrait retouching
Legendary Service
When you purchase Exposure, you benefit from using a stable, reliable product. One that you can count on for any type of photography workflow.
We’ve been developing award-winning, advanced image processing software since 1993, and are known for our industry-leading software and fantastic customer support.
If you ever need assistance, we’re here for you. Our tutorials page offers many helpful videos and articles. Our support team is fast, friendly, and knowledgeable. If you ever have a question, you’ll always be communicating with a real person.
Press Mentions
To learn what industry photographers and journalists think of Exposure, check out these recent reviews.
“Exposure X4 from Alien Skin does everything you’d expect from a high-end editor, things like PSD support, Mac and 64-bit Win compatibility, integration as a PS plug-in, etc., and it does everything fast.”
“Exposure X4 is certainly very responsive, more so than Adobe’s other competitors. The new ability in Exposure X4 to populate smart collections with (keywords) is a real, time-saving bonus.”
“Exposure X4 gets a five-star rating because it’s powerful, effective and engaging and used with care and subtlety it can produce hauntingly beautiful images. It can help recapture the emotion in photography that’s so easily lost in a world of histograms, megapixels and lab charts.”
“If you’re looking for a non-destructive editor with solid raw processing capabilities and a quick, easy workflow, take Exposure X3 for a spin.”
EXPOSURE SOFTWARE BLOG
Layers Panel User Guide
Learn how to operate the Layers panel to control editing adjustments in Exposure with this helpful user guide.
Spot Color Looks
Spot color is a powerful method of directing the viewer’s attention. This video demonstrates creating selective color effects in Exposure.
Updated Video Round Up
These are some of the best videos to watch when learning how to use Exposure. Each one teaches crucial aspects of using the software.
Requirements
We thoroughly test and support Exposure X5 on the systems listed. While Exposure X5 may also work on other configurations, we do not guarantee it.
- Apple Mac: OS X Yosemite (10.10) or newer
- Microsoft Windows: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
- An Intel Core 2 processor with SSE4 support or compatible
- A monitor with 1280×768 resolution or greater
Exposure X4 is a complete photo editing and organizing solution. It can also be used as a creative editing plug-in. The plug-in requirements are as follows:
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 or Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 or newer
- Adobe Lightroom 6 or Adobe Lightroom CC 2015 or newer
- TIFF, JPEG, DNG, PSD (that have Maximize Compatibility turned on)
- Exposure supports a wide range of RAW camera formats.
- Exposure automatically corrects lens distortion for many camera lenses.
- Exposure X5 non-destructive RAW photo editor
- Integrated Snap Art natural media
- Integrated Blow Up high-quality photo enlargement
- Exposure X5, Snap Art, and Blow Up plug-ins for Lightroom and Photoshop
- Fast technical support
- 30-day money back guarantee
- No subscription required
- Exposure X5 non-destructive RAW photo editor
- Exposure X5 plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop
- Fast technical support
- 30-day money back guarantee
- No subscription required