Hi Mika!

Thanks for the comment. We love to hear back from users of our software regardless if it’s good or bad. The programming team put a lot of work into making version X the best it can be and there are already some solid plans in place to improve it. The features you mentioned are already on the development list for future versions of the software. We will certainly keep our eyes open about application bloat, too.

Hi Jan,

The new version of Exposure (X.1) is available on the website at this address: http://www.alienskin.com/downloads

The developers have talked about adding an auto update feature into the product itself before. It’s something that’s on the list of new features for the next version of Exposure. I’ll make sure that they hear your request to integrate it. Thanks for sharing.

We always love to hear Exposure is your fave, Alex! Thanks for sharing. There’s nothing quite like a once-click solution to nail the look your after.

Thanks for the review, Cameron! I’ll make sure the development team takes a look over your analysis. Feel free to share suggestions for additional features. Our ears are always open.

This time around, it is romanticism at the click of a button (my own preset used).

Photo credits: Israeli singer Grace Chana Woolf

Alex

Anytime, Karin!

Severe photochemical allergies and dermatitis… yeah, pretty nasty. Turns out a few of my coworkers at magazine and newspaper publishing companies have the same severe photochemical dermatitis and had to give up their careers too. Bad company darkrooms and the requirement that we had to process and print our own film in between actual photographic assignments each day.

Too many years lost due to it until digital finally bestowed the ability to make images like I used to if not better. My photographic eye and style were intimately formed by the wide variety of analog cameras and films once available, from 35mm up to 8″x10″: 35mm and 120 format rangefinders, hand and stand view cameras, panorama cameras and magazines. Each type of camera, film and printing method permitted a range of ways of approaching one’s subjects.

Was never really a fan of SLRs and DSLRs don’t do it for me either. I keep one here just in case I need to try out and review lenses for it but otherwise it sits in storage. Exposure X and similar software allow me to apply some of the variety that used to come from all those different ways of doing things.

Thanks for passing on my requests!

I began writing about the relationship between DaVinci color correction, Adobe Lightroom, and Alien Skin Exposure X on my blog. When I set out to write it, I just didn’t intend to be so, uh, long-winded! But with the Exposure X 1.1 update, I guess the time to share my review is now (Part 6 should be finished this week). I hope your team can find some useful suggestions from my analysis. Part 1 begins here: http://pdxhax.blogspot.com/2015/12/alien-skin-softwares-new-exposure-x-is.html

Kind Regards

Hey Karin!

We love to hear awesome stories from real film photographers. Much of Exposure’s feature-set grew from processes in the darkroom, so we have a bit of a soft spot for appreciating it. Chemistry alone is tough on hands, but I couldn’t imagine having an allergy!

I’ll make sure the programming team hear your feature requests. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you especially for Polaroid Type 55, Lith printing, Kodak Panatomic-X, GAF 500, platinum and palladium, and more… the list goes on.

Just one really big request (big for me at least): please add the option for a third colour in Tone Curve’s split toning so I can emulate the combination of benzotriazole in Dektol, warm or neutral silver-rich baryta papers and gold/selenium split toning that I used for some of my finest prints. In essence, three colours: subtly cool in the high values, warmish in the midtones and blue to purplish in the low values.

I really love how you have included three Rodinal Developer presets for Grain. Rodinal was my number one developer and I loved it as a stand developer for some images and as an inversion developer for others. Really fine, sharp grain with subtle Mackie line edge effects to reinforce a three dimensional feeling in the print.

Acufine was my number two film developer and I would love to see you provide presets emulating that too!