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This article shows how to enter Custom Install mode and select a plug-in installation destination. If you’d like to use an unsupported plug-in, or install to a location other than the default, you can perform a Custom Install. The installer will automatically detect supported host programs during the Host Selection step.

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To see any of the photos with a single effect applied across the entire image, rather than split into original and three effects as shown below, visit this external SmugMug gallery where you can look at larger resolution versions on screen or download full-resolution files to your computer for a more detailed examination.Our software is officially supported with the host programs and versions listed in the Requirements section of each product page.

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For a full resolution look at any of the samples below, just click on the photo. While this is certainly not a comprehensive sampling, there are several different looks represented here. I have put together a fair number of examples and I think it is time to show you some of the things that this plugin can do for your photography.

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I have used a similar product for Nik - Color Efex Pro 3 - which does a pretty fair job of emulating various films, but does not include the borders and aging effects found in Alien Skin’s Exposure 4. These borders and textures go well beyond what I expected to find in a film emulating plugin. I didn’t immediately find these and I thought they could have been better positioned.Įnough complaining about where these controls are located, these features are why I say this plugin would be a good choice if you could only select one. The texture section contains controls for dust and scratches which is pretty straightforward, but you will also find the various borders buried in here, too. At the top of the Age tab is a section for vignettes which is pretty clear. Although it is slightly less than intuitive and really the only weakness I found with the interface, these edge treatments are found on the age tab. Many of the presets include various different border treatments - from vignettes in any color you like to rough edges and brushed effects. Back to the left side, there is a tab for User presets, so you can save any variation you create. Even though the plugin comes with a few hundred presets, you can modify these to suit your own photographic style for an unlimited number of variations. There are tabs for Color, Tone, Focus, Grain, IR and Age. On the right side of the Exposure 4 screen, there is a tabbed interface for tweaking the settings. If you miss the days of grainy Tri-X 400 film pushed to 1600 ASA, you need not miss this distinctive look anymore. The presets are nicely grouped and organized by type with a plethora of old black and white film options. There is a whole subset of presets for various cross processing looks which are pretty popular with pro studio photographers right now. Still on the cinema presets, there are four, count ‘em, four presets for the “Wizard of Oz” look. There are several Technicolor presets with various degrees of fading, scratching, etc. I still struggle to overcome my fear of deep water almost 40 years after seeing that movie, but I digress.

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This plugin also provides presets for old cinema film types with a preset to mimic the look in the movie Jaws. Left clicking on the large preview switches the image back to the original, so you can quickly and easily switch back and forth between the original image and the selected preset. When you click on a preset, the larger center preview quickly updates to show the result. The interface is clean and well designed with presets on the left side directly below a medium sized preview that dynamically updates as you mouse over the list of presets. There are presets for every kind of film that I have ever heard of and more. Exposure 4 allows you to add scratches, noise, and other methods to artificially age your photos. There are options to convert your contemporary images do Daguerrotype, Cyanotype, Calotype, Lith, and Wet Plate methods. It is a comprehensive color adjustment tool that allows you to digitally mimic different types of film going all the way back to the origins of photography. Hopefully I have put together enough examples to make the wait worthwhile.įirst of all, let me just say that if you are a photographer and can only purchase one plugin to use with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, this would be an excellent candidate.

In my defense, this plugin packs in so many features that it simply took this long to try out most of the options. I have finally managed to get my images together for my review of Alien Skin’s Exposure 4 plugin for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

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