Exposure is the best image editor for creative photo editing.
Exposure combines professional grade photo adjustments, a huge library of gorgeous photo looks, and an efficient design that makes it a joy to use. New automatic adjustments streamline your workflow and keep you in the creative zone.
Unique tools take you wherever imagination leads – such as its Advanced Color Editor, artistic focus effects, realistic film grain, and overlays.
The best creative photo editor is also the fastest. Exposure uses your GPU to make editing even faster and smoother.
Exposure is a complete photo editing application and a plug-in.
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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 from clean and elegant modern styles to eye catching color shifts.
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 a powerful color editor for sophisticated color adjustments, realistic film grain, creative lens focus and tilt-shift effects, and a huge number of 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. Its new GPU optimized processing engine means less waiting, so you can focus on creative editing without distraction.
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.
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 X5 stands out from its rivals thanks to its blazing-fast image browsing and editing. It also boasts a treasure trove of manual adjustments plus a vast library of quick yet professional-looking presets.”
“Exposure is so versatile that it can quickly be picked up by those new to photo editing. Equally, professional photographers will find a fully-fledged editing suite to make their workflow as efficient as possible.”
“Exposure from [Exposure Software] 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 is certainly very responsive, more so than Adobe’s other competitors. The new ability in Exposure to populate smart collections with keywords is a real, time-saving bonus.”
EXPOSURE SOFTWARE BLOG
Moving From Lightroom to Exposure
It’s easy to transfer large Lightroom catalogs into Exposure with Exposure’s migration tool. This video demonstrates the process.
Comparing Photo Treatments
Learn how quickly compare photos and presets in Exposure. It’s a quick way to narrow down to the very best look, image, or adjustment.
Apple Silicon Support
We released a new Exposure update that supports the new Apple Silicon Macs. It’s free to anyone that owns Exposure X6.
Requirements
We thoroughly test and support Exposure X6 on the systems listed. While Exposure X6 may also work on other configurations, we do not guarantee it.
Exposure X6 may be used as a standalone program or as a set of editing plug-ins. Plug-in support requires one of the following host applications:
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 or Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 or newer
- Adobe Lightroom 6 or Adobe Lightroom CC 2015 or newer
Mac
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra or newer
- Apple M1 or Intel Core 2 processor or newer
- Monitor with 1280 x 768 resolution or greater
- 8GB RAM minimum, 16GB recommended
- For GPU support, a recent (2015 or later) Metal compatible GPU with 2GB RAM is recommended
Windows
- Windows 10 64-bit or newer
- Intel Core 2 processor or newer
- Monitor with 1280 x 768 resolution or greater
- 8GB RAM minimum, 16GB recommended
- For GPU support, a recent (2015 or later) OpenCL compatible GPU with 2GB RAM is recommended
- TIFF, JPEG, DNG, and PSD
- Exposure supports a wide range of RAW camera formats.
- Exposure provides distortion, vignette, and chromatic aberration correction for many camera lenses.
- Exposure X6 non-destructive RAW photo editor
- Integrated Snap Art natural media
- Integrated Blow Up high-quality photo enlargement
- Exposure X6, Snap Art, and Blow Up plug-ins for Lightroom and Photoshop
- Fast technical support
- 30-day money back guarantee
- No subscription required
- Exposure X6 non-destructive RAW photo editor
- Exposure X6 plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop
- Fast technical support
- 30-day money back guarantee
- No subscription required