I’m mostly a landscape guy and I like color. There’s literally hundreds of effects there with little thumbnail previews so you can see ahead of time what they’re going to look like. They’ve already done the work for you in creating all of the popular film effects. That’s why the presets panel in Exposure 6 is probably going to be the first place you go to. Like I said before, everyone loves their presets in Lightroom. But honestly, I think for Exposure 6 (and many other plug-ins out there), the big thing is presets.
Of course the settings in the grains, textures, overlays, bokeh, etc… go beyond what Lightroom can do. But I think the real power comes from 2 things. It’s got the usual Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows and basic stuff. In fact, a big congrats to the folks at Alien Skin because Exposure 5 recently won the PPA Hot One Aware for 2014 (that was before version 6 came out last month).Īnyway, so what does “they just offer way more power” really mean when it comes to plug-ins (I said that above). If you’re in to those effects you’ll definitely want to check it out. Heck, even their tagline for Exposure 6 reads “Digital Images, Analog Soul”. Well, last month Alien Skin released Exposure 6 which is mainly geared at film effects. They just offer way more power, tools, and settings than Lightroom can. But when it comes to film effects, I don’t think you can beat a plug-in. Now, I do think the overall community out there wants to do most of their work in Lightroom which is why presets are popular. Just about every photo app on the iPhone does ’em too. Look at the popularity of the VSCO Film presets for Lightroom (and many others that do something similar). Lately it seems that film effects have taken over the post-processing world. One of the big areas I hear a lot about is film effects. I keep getting asked about all of the Lightroom plug-ins out there, which is why (a while back) I created a plug-in category here on the site. In other words, an entire retro film darkroom on your computer.Hey everyone. At the right of the interface you can perform additional edits to the preset, such as Basic (color and exposure alterations), Detail (sharpening and noise control), Color (filters and saturation), Tone Curve (including split toning), Vignette, Overlays (borders, light effects and textures, as shown below), Focus (sharpen and blur), Grain (amount, type and size), IR (infrared), Bokeh (with easy to use draggable controls and other settings) and even metadata access.
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In the screenshot below I am working in the “Color Films - Vintage” category (Autochrome preset), which provided the base effect plus soft frame. This is where the fun begins! At left there is a long list of preset categories covering both black and white and color effects, along with bokeh and alternative process presets. Once you’ve decided on a specific image to work on, simply double-click it and you can enable a large preview of it in the center of the workspace. When you are ready to get started, Exposure offers an incredibly handy image browser, built right in (see below), where you can quickly navigate your hard drive and immediately begin seeing the provided preset effects as they apply to any selected image: If you love film effects, you can spend all day exploring what Exposure has to offer under its various color, black and white and alternative process presets, not to mention focus effects (bokeh). Exposure X is featured in the screenshot at top. We’ll look at each of these plug-ins in the order listed above.