New Features in Exposure X7

New masking tool that makes it easy to separate a subject from the background. Draw a rough border in just a few clicks to indicate the selected area and Exposure’s intelligent algorithm creates a precise mask

Selectable workspaces organize the panels needed for a particular task. Use the built-in layouts for culling, editing, and retouching, or create your own customized workspaces.

The crop and transform panels have been unified into a single easy-to-use interface.

New composition guides – golden ratio, golden spiral, golden triangle, and diagonal.

Defective pixel removal for raw photos.

More faithful color reproduction when using custom DCP color profiles.

Improved color fidelity with DNG files.

Fine texture noise can be added to recover detail with aggressive noise reduction.

Exposure is an advanced, non-destructive RAW editor. Its many features exist to help you master your workflow and create beautiful images as efficiently as possible.

This before/after image has corrective sharpening, grain, bokeh, light effects, borders, and other presets to create its artistic transformation.

Photo © April Milani

Creative Adjustments

NEW Polygon Selection Tool

NEW Easily separate subject from background by drawing a polygonal border
NEW Refine selection anytime by moving polygon points
NEW Exclude or include areas using markers

Advanced Color Editor

Enables vastly greater control of color modifications
Select source and replacement colors by hue, saturation, and lightness range
Perform multiple transformations in a single step
Save transformations as presets for reuse

3D Color Masking

Enables precise control of where image adjustments are applied
Specify areas defined by combinations of luminance, hue, and saturation
Masking presets enable one-click selection of sky, foliage, skin tones, and more
Quickly select mask constraints with an eyedropper tool

Nondestructive Layers

Layer effects, including presets and photo adjustments
No limit on number of layers
Seamlessly blend adjustments using the brush tool
Work on layers in multiple photos simultaneously
Adjust the opacity of each layer

Brush Tool

Portrait touch ups
- Enhance Iris
- Soften Skin
- Whiten Teeth
- Remove Red Eye
Lighten or darken part of an image
Adjust warmth, clarity, and contrast
Make a preset affect a specific area
Stack effects
Adjust opacity
Luminance and saturation mask visualization options
Black background mask visualization option
Customize the hue and opacity of the selection mask overlay

Linear and Radial Gradient Tools

Selectively apply effects with radial, planar, and half-planar gradients
Adjust opacity of the gradient

Spot Heal Tool

Heal or clone to touch up portraits or remove small distractions from a photo

Creative focus tools

Bokeh tool for creative focus effects
- Radial blur for focusing attention on a subject
- Planar blur enables tilt shift effects
Vignettes
- Vignette Location tool displays exact center of the vignette on your image

Overlays

Borders
Textures
Light effects
- Sun flare, side, corner, and surround light effects
- movable overlays enable precise placement and rotation of light effects
Batch overlay import
Overlay blend modes – Opacity, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Hard Light

Grain tools

Use presets or customize your own
Renders grain differently in shadows, midtones, and highlights to accurately emulate film grain

Infrared tools

Glow
Fog
Halation

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Photo Editing

Automatic Adjustments

Select optimized values for frequently used controls in a single click
Automatic adjustments set white balance, exposure, haze level, contrast, and tone
Strength of automatic adjustments can be selected to match your editing style

GPU Optimized

Assigns rendering tasks to the CPU and available graphics cards for the fastest possible editing experience

Core Editing Tools

Exposure, contrast, saturation, and other essential adjustments
Adjustable overall intensity slider to blend effects with original image
High quality raw processing algorithm enables significant shadow and highlight detail enhancement
Haze level slider counteracts the decrease in contrast caused by atmospheric haze

White Balance Adjustment

White balance eyedropper
Temperature and tint controls
Temperature slider uses Kelvin units
White balance presets for specific lighting scenarios
Keyboard shortcut toggles White Balance Picker

Color Editing

Adjust hue, saturation, and lightness using sliders for specific colors
Use targeted adjustment tools to adjust HSL for a selected color
Adjust saturation in shadows, midtones, and highlights
Apply warming and cooling with an easy slider adjustment
Apply lens filter simulations with any color you choose

Black and White Editing

Adjust sensitivity of colors used in B&W conversion
Sensitivity presets for frequently used conversion styles
Sensitivity adjustment tool to select color from image

Sharpening

Noise Reduction

Profile guided noise reduction reduces noise based on camera sensor characteristics
Adjust the removal of luminance and chrominance noise
Smoothing option applies an adaptive algorithm which preserves sharp edges while further reducing noise
NEW Add fine-texture noise for more natural results with aggressive noise reduction

NEW Defective Pixel Removal

NEW Automatically detect and remove single-pixel artifacts caused by camera sensor defects
NEW Adjust defect removal strength to achieve the best results

Crop and Transform Tools

Crop, level and rotate
Crop composition guides – Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, Golden Spiral, Golden Triangle, Diagonal, and Alignment Grid
Adjust vertical and horizontal keystoning
Adjust rotation, scale, and offset
Adjust aspect
Optionally show grid while adjusting transform controls
NEW Streamlined interface unifies crop and transform adjustments in one panel

Histogram

Overlays show areas where highlights and shadows are clipped
Adjustable regions enable editing of specific tone ranges
Toggle highlight and shadow clip warnings with shortcut keys
Specify black or white clip warning threshold
Display RGB value of pixel under cursor
- Choose sample size – single pixel or 5×5 weighted average

Complete Edit History

Review the full editing history of a photo and see specific slider values
Mouse hover over a previous edit to see how the photo looked at that point
Easily revert to a previous editing step
Option to limit the number of edit history entries

Look Up Table (LUT) Support

Apply industry-standard LUT adjustments to photos
Import LUTs found on the internet and exported by other photo and video editing programs
Visually browse installed LUTs for easy selection
Adjust intensity to tone down or punch up impact of effect

Tone Curve Editing

Precisely adjust image brightness with control points
Save tone curve presets to be reused
Adjust shadows, highlights, and contrast with sliders
Adjust intensity to tone down or punch up impact of effect
Pop out tone curve into a resizable window

Photo © Andrea Liveri

Presets

Over 500 Presets

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Subtle, modern portrait films
Saturation boost for landscapes
High-contrast black and white
Vintage looks, such as daguerreotype
Color and B&W Infrared films
Cinema looks
Faded looks for a hazy, dreamy effect
Bright looks that are great for outdoor portraits and weddings
Platinum print emulations and border overlays
Hundreds more looks, spanning the entire history of analog photography
Linear and radial presets
Presets that mimic the in-camera film simulations of Fujifilm cameras

Selective Presets

Create presets that affect only certain settings
Include or exclude layers from presets
Factory presets no longer affect basic and detail panels
Selective settings also available when copy/pasting
Choose which categories of settings are overwritten when pasting with the Paste Settings from Previous command
White balance is now a separate group

Audition Presets

Compare multiple presets on screen, then apply your choice with a single click
Flexible viewing options – Vertical, Horizontal, Columns, Rows, Quad, Six
Presets are highlighted in the Presets panel while they are being auditioned

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Complete Photo Manager

User-supplied camera profiles

Apply DCP files to RAW photos
- Controls the interpretation of color from RAW sensor data of a particular camera
- Applied at the start of the rendering pipeline
- Can adjust hue, saturation, and lightness of all colors
- Enables real-world accurate color reproduction
- Basic DCPs for fixed lighting conditions
- Dual illuminant DCPs for a range of lighting conditions
Camera Presets
- Enable automatic application of DCPs to images from a particular camera
- Match by Camera Model or Serial Number
- Optionally match by lens or ISO (exact, at least, at most, in range)
- Optionally apply a preset (e.g. Detail and Noise Reduction settings)
- Automatically applied in:
  - Folder Monitor
  - Copy-from-card
  - Browse to unmodified images
  - Reset (and Total Reset)

Smart Collections

Automatically populate collections based on criteria you specify
- Organizational criteria – ratings, color labels, flags, and more
- Photo criteria – camera make, capture time, exposure time, f-stop, and more
- Metadata criteria – copyright, name, email, caption, keywords, and more
- Editing criteria – edit time, has virtual copy, and more
Create Smart Collection from file list

Lightroom Migration Tool

Lightroom folders are converted to Exposure bookmarks
Photo metadata is transferred to Exposure
- Flag/Rating/Label
- Copyright/Name/Email/Address/Title/Caption/Copy Name
- Keywords
- Collections
- Orientation and Crop & Rotate
Lightroom-adjusted images can be exported alongside originals for reference

Keywords

Apply keywords to add descriptive tags to your photo
Apply keywords during image copy
Retain or remove keywords during image export
Manage keywords and create keyword sets in the keyword library
Import keyword sets from Lightroom
Easily remove all keywords from a photo
Export a keyword set to Lightroom
Copy keywords to clipboard

Virtual Copies

Edit and export multiple variations of a single photo without taking up additional disk space
Create new virtual copy by right-clicking a preset

Collections

Quickly group images, no matter where they appear on your computer
Use subcollections for detailed categorization
Designate a collection to be the Quick Collection to quickly add photos to it with a keystroke
Optionally add all selected photos when creating a collection

Side-by-side image comparison view

Review multiple photos simultaneously to speed up image culling
Link views to synchronize panning and zooming of multiple images
Pin one or more images to keep them in view
Flexible viewing options – Vertical, Horizontal, Columns, Rows, Quad, Six

Review and edit photo metadata

Title and Caption metadata fields
Create and apply metadata presets from the metadata panel
File size available in metadata panel and info overlay options
Collection information displayed in Metadata panel
- Add photo to collection via text entry or menu
- Navigate to collection

Search and filter photos

Full text search of photo metadata
Filter by metadata, ratings, or keywords

File and folder operations (copy, move, rename, delete)

File rename uses flexible naming templates
Names are synced when renaming RAW+JPEG shots

Watermark photos when exporting or printing

Compose a watermark from multiple text and graphic elements
Text elements can include items from image metadata
Adjust size, location, opacity, and more
Save watermark settings in a workflow preset for easy reuse
Place watermark elements using precise move and rotate tool

More Organizing Tools

Drag files to Apple Finder or Windows Explorer to copy or move them
Drag an image or folder onto Exposure to visit that folder and create a bookmark
Batch file renaming
Adjust capture time
Full text search to find images by a variety of criteria
Flexible selection and sorting options
Ability to create and manage workflow presets (import, export, categorize, rename, and more)

Printing

Print one or more photos at a time
Preview the print job before sending to the printer
Print multiple images per page, with flexible row and column options
Auto-rotate images to best match print area
Create full-bleed prints using flexible margin adjustments
Specify paper size in inches, millimeters, or points
Apply output sharpening for specific paper types
Apply watermarks to printed photos
Zoom-to-fill option to fill entire cell, and adjust crop for individual cells
Match orientation of printed photos to cells option
Print one image per page option
Keep square option
Presets for print settings
- Save/restore sets of print settings
- Save/restore selected printer and paper source (Windows only)
- Print dialog remembers your previous settings
- Factory presets
  - Common print sizes like 4×6 and 5×7
  - Contact sheets

Support for many compact, DSLR, and mirrorless cameras

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Complete lens correction solution

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Automatic selection of lens correction profile from photo metadata
Select which lens profile to use or turn it off completely
Distortion correction
- Profile-based or manual correction: apply barrel/pin-cushion transformation to counteract lens distortion
Vignette correction: counteract darkening around the edges
- Profile-based or manual
Chromatic aberration correction: counteract per-color focus differences caused by the physical properties of light traveling through the lens
- Profile-based or manual
Save and reuse lens correction settings as presets

Defringe Tool

Fixes color fringing problems that are not counteracted by the lens correction
Algorithmic detection and removal of color fringes
Select the color of the fringe to correct with predefined common fringe colors or eyedropper
Save and reuse defringe settings as Presets

Supports a variety of file types (RAW, TIFF, JPEG, DNG)

PSD support

Browse thumbnails for Photoshop files
Add Exposure effects to Photoshop composites
Launch Photoshop as an external editor directly from Exposure

Transform Orientation

Rotate 90° clockwise and counterclockwise
Flip horizontal and vertical

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Nondestructive Workflow

Catalog free workflow

No need to import images
Easy moving of images between computers or external storage
Easy backup
Cloud syncing to easily work from multiple computers or collaborate

Copy from card

Display visual preview of source images
Select source images to copy
Apply one or more editing presets on copy
Add to one or more collections on copy
Add one or more keywords on copy
Preserve file creation and modification times
File names are kept in sync in RAW+JPEG shots
Number suffix file naming option for preserving camera sequence
Optionally reset a sequence each time it is used
Copy from multiple cards at once
Organize and edit photos while copy happens in background
Apply metadata during card copy
Add photos to a collection during card copy
Back up photos to a second location when copying
Photos from the latest card copy are automatically added to a Last Copy from Card collection
DNG converter integration enables automatic conversion to DNG format during copy

Send photos to an external editor

Launch photos in other programs
Send original files with Edit Copy In
Send exported images with Exposure edits using Edit Copy In
Designate a favorite editor for launching with a key shortcut
Edit Copy In uses a full naming template, custom resolution setting, and presets

Monitored Folders

Monitor any folder in the Folder panel
Use with tethered cameras and tethering software provided by your camera manufacturer
Auto-select new files
Rename new files using file naming presets
Apply presets as files are added
When more than one preset is applied, a virtual copy is created for each
Apply metadata as files are added
Add keywords as files are added
Add to collection as files are added

Flexible File Export

Export to JPEG, TIFF, and PSD
Export destinations include folder, special folder (like Desktop or Pictures) or prompt each time
Include a variety of metadata in file and folder names with advanced naming templates
Export presets allow easy reuse of frequently used settings
Export destination can create multiple subfolders and use metadata for folder names
Quick Export enables fast access to frequently used export recipes via mouse or keyboard shortcut
Includes built-in, customizable Quick Export profiles for popular social media and print services
Apply output sharpening for specific paper types
Quickly preview watermark from Export dialog
Custom Text / Ask option prompts for text to use in file name or folder templates
File creation time is set to match image capture time
Sequence numbers are generated in order of the selected sort
Number suffix file naming option for preserving camera sequence
Optionally reset a sequence each time it is used
Downsize image on export
- Constrain by dimensions, long edge, short edge, height, width, megapixels, or percentage

User Interface

NEW Customizable Workspaces

NEW Show only tools needed for a particular activity
NEW Built-in layouts for culling, editing, retouching
NEW Create new workspaces customized for a task
Reposition and hide panels
Solo mode to work with one panel at a time
Show/hide tagging and filtering controls
Grid view allows up to 20 columns

NEW Quick Navigation

NEW Switch to a panel or change workspaces by hovering over a dock icon

Multiple monitor and full-screen support

Optionally place right and left docks on the secondary window

Edit photos side-by-side

Auto Updater

Notifies about available updates

User Interface Languages

English
French
German

High-Resolution Display Support

User interface scales on Mac Retina and Windows High-DPI displays

Configurable Shortcut Keys

Keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease grid thumbnail size
Designate one or more keyboard shortcuts for editing and organizing functions
Shortcut presets manage multiple key layouts
Included Lightroom-compatible layout eases migration
Use arrow keys to position various in-preview controls
- Shift-arrow to move 10x
- Alt-up/down to rotate (shift-alt-up/down to rotate 10x)
- Applies to spot fixes, brush gradients, bokeh regions, overlay move/rotate handles, and watermark move/rotate handles
Keyboard shortcuts to toggle individual docks
Keyboard shortcuts to increase/decrease grid thumbnail size

Exposure X7 Bundle

Snap Art natural media effects

Launch directly from Exposure
Hundreds of natural media looks
Oil Paint, Watercolor, Pastel, Color Pencil and many more

Blow Up crystal clear photo enlargement

Launch directly from Exposure
Retain sharp edges without introducing jagged edges and artifacts
Huge image support – up to 300,000 pixels per side
Presets for common paper sizes
Output sharpening