I’m pleased to announce that we are changing our company name to Exposure Software! We made Exposure in 2006 to help photographers develop beautiful images. Our upcoming release of Exposure X5 will be a big stride forward in creativity and efficiency. The new company name expresses our complete focus on serving creative photographers.
You’ll see some changes immediately. Our website has a new logo and url – https://exposure.software. We’ll be updating our social media channels with our new name over the next few weeks. When Exposure X5 is released this fall, the transition will be complete.
One thing that won’t change is our commitment to amazing service. We’ll continue to offer the best customer support in the software industry, and to deliver tools that are fun, reliable, and inspire creativity!
I’d like to offer a special thanks to everyone who has used our products over the years. We couldn’t have done it without you, and we hope to keep serving you for many years to come.
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man I’ve been using your products since that very first funky background filter. Kinda sad to see the old name go away but ya’ll have come a long way.
Obviously, this name change illustrates your focus moving forward. I’m wondering if you’ll ever bring SnapArt up to date or incorporate it into a future version of Exposure, or are you considering it an orphan.
I just purchased the Exposure X4 bundle, and now read that Exposure X5 will be released soon.
I feel like I’ve been taken advantage of…had I known the newest release was upcoming, I would have held off on spending $150 on a product that will soon be outdated.
I was considering purchasing Eye Candy 7, but I think I’ll hold off for the time being, until the next version is released.
Yeech!
Hi Mark – thanks for purchasing! Because you bought Exposure X4 on or after August 1, 2019 you will be sent a free upgrade to Exposure X5 when it’s available.
Thanks for commenting, Tom. We are focused on Exposure right now, but we love all our products. Snap Art would make a great addition to Exposure. That’s a good suggestion. As far as updating Snap Art, it’s something we have on our radar. I’ll add a few notes about your interest in seeing a new version of Snap Art for the design team.
Thanks, Robb! It’s definitely a tough decision to make. We love where we got our start in creating useful creative software. It shaped us into the company we’ve become today.
A great addition to X5 or a later version would be to have the ability to apply the effects as a brush, as opposed to globally.
Check out our Local Adjustments video, Troy. When I think about applying effects as a brush, that’s what comes to mind. Is the functionality demonstrated in that video what you’re looking for?
Hopefully Snap Art and Blow-Up can be incorporated into Exposure.
Check out the Exposure Bundle. That has all three titles integrated together.
Congratulations!
I have used Eyecandy since EC4000.
Looking forward to full integration with Affinity Photo. (I have no connection with Affinity Photo)
Thanks for commenting, Tom. Exposure can be integrated with Affinity Photo as an external editor now. Have you tried using it that way?
Nice to know. I will trial X5.
Right now the eye candy plugin is the only thing keeping Photoshop CS6 on my computer.
Sounds good, Tom. You can use Exposure X4 in that same way with Affinity. This article shows you how to set it up.
Same here, right from the start. Pretty much the only plugin I use these days. Weird magic )
I don’t see eye candy mentioned in that article.
Yes, you are correct. I apologize, I misunderstood. Eye Candy will only run with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
I thought you were interested in Exposure. Exposure, Snap Art, and Blow Up will run with Affinity Photo as external editors. Eye Candy is a little different.
Will X5 have auto exposure like LR? I’ve been using it since X3 but it’s the one thing I miss from LR. Many thanks Miles
Thanks for the comment, Miles. We have auto adjustments on our list of features we’d like to add, but they are not going to make it into this release.
Image Doctor’s Jpeg repair feature was so powerful, easy to use and accurate. In comparison to similar tools, I always got the best results from Image Doctor, but its no longer sold, and the original release doesn’t work with newer versions of Photoshop. Can you either sell an updated version, or bundle the features in with another plugin?
Thanks for commenting, John. JPEG repair was such a great feature in Image Doctor. Unfortunately, we don’t have an equivalent tool in our current software titles. The other tools from Image Doctor have been integrated into Exposure to some capacity, already. I’ll make a note for the design team about your interest in it.
Thanks Jimmy, fingers crossed… it was so useful for me as i work with many web images, and the JPEG repair made them look like new… haven’t used anything as good since. Release it as a standalone, I’m sure it’d be popular! 😀 Cheers!
I would like to see much better tools about retouching portraits.Till now existed tools are very poor.I’m looking forward to the future versions.Thank you!
Thanks for commenting, Peter. We’d like to hear more about what you’re looking for. What is your current workflow? That might help us understand your needs.
Thanks for respond Jimmy. I mean more dedicated tools for human face enhancing and modification,like modifying lips,nose,eyebrows,chin etc.If these kind of tools are implemented into Exposure,there is not any reason to continue using PortraitPro anymore. I like Exposure but those existed tools in Exposure like Skin Tone, Whiten teeth and Enhance Eyes are not enough.
Thanks for the comments, Peter. I’ll make sure the design team hears about what you’re looking for in terms of retouching tools.
So this signals the end of software like EyeCandy and the dearly departed but not forgotten Xenofex? What of the long-in-the-tooth Blowup? Will it be DC’d? Snap art also feels off model for this new direction. These are good and useful software with few (if any) comparable replacements. Is there a path forward for these?
Thanks for commenting, Julian. Our efforts have been focused on developing Exposure, but we continually test and support our other products. We keep them up-to-date with new operating system and host program versions. As far as the future is concerned for the titles you mentioned, there are no immediate plans to release new versions. We do listen to the feedback we hear from our users, so we will make note of your interest in our development logs.
Alien Skin Exposure X4 Photoshop.8bf.plugin” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
Have this message today when open Photoshop 2020.
Before I work with Alien skin for 1 year.
What happened????
Occasionally an update to an operating system or to Photoshop may cause issues like this. If that happens, reinstalling using the latest version of that product typically solves the issue. You can download the latest version of Exposure X4, here.