COMPANY: Alien Skin | URL: www.alienskin.com | TYPE: Plug-in | PLATFORM: Mac, Windows | PRICE: $249
	Enjoy all the creative tools of film photography, such as discontinued films, dark room tricks, and lo-fi camera quirks. Alien Skin Exposure 4 accurately simulates classic films, like Kodachrome, Polaroid, and Panatomic-X. The result is a photo that looks like it was made by a human, not a computer. There is careful research under the hood, but the controls are kept simple so you can focus on your art. Exposure 4 has a completely redesigned user interface that helps you quickly develop your own look. Across the board everything is faster and much easier to use. Features Realistic grain Exposure’s grain is carefully researched and realistic, unlike the digital speckles rendered by other software. Like actual grain, it clumps and is strongest in the midtones. Grain size scales with your image size, just like real photographic enlargement. Non-destructive editing Exposure supports a non-destructive workflow, making experimentation easy. Effects in Photoshop are rendered on a new layer, leaving your original image untouched. In Photoshop, Exposure can be run as a Smart Filter for easy tweaking of the effect after it is created. Batch processing is supported with actions in Photoshop and through tight integration in Lightroom. Multithreaded Exposure takes advantage of multiple processors and multiple cores in order to run fast on modern computers. The more cores, the faster Exposure runs. Huge range of effects The best way to see what Exposure can do is to try it yourself for free. For a quick overview, here are some of the techniques of film photography that Exposure handles. These are just the tip of the iceberg. What's New Improved user interface A redesigned user interface makes Exposure 4 much easier to use. Everything is faster and more interactive: •Unified Filters. Black and White and Color filters are combined so you can find all the effects in one place •Group presets let you explore custom effects easily •Thumbnail Preview. Hover over a setting to preview it in the thumbnail •Fast text search. Find settings based on name or description New controls and effects New controls let you create custom looks quickly and intuitively: •Texture Effects (light leaks, dust and scratches, borders) •New controls let you create Black and White effects more easily (more color channels, B/W Color Filter, Split Toning Control) •New controls let you create custom color effects more easily (more saturation channels, color split toning) •Color infrared film provides psychedelic color shifts New presets Many presets have been improved and new ones added: •New textures help you recreate historical photographic processes like Cyanotype, Lith printing and Wet Plate Photography •Lo-Fi toy camera presets are now more realistic using light leaks and organic textures Black & white films: Agfa APX Agfa Scala Fuji Neopan Ilford Delta Ilford HP5 Kodak PLUS-X Kodak Panatomic-X Kodak T-MAX Kodak TRI-X Kodak Technical Pan Color Print Films Fuji Pro C, S, and H Fuji Reala Kodak Portra NC Kodak Portra VC Kodak Ultra Color UC Color Slide Films Agfa RSX II Agfachrome Fuji Astia Fuji Provia Fuji Velvia GAF Ektachrome EES, G, GX, and VX Other Effects: •Kodachrome, every variation from 1936 to the present day •Polaroid, including Polapan and Polachrome •Technicolor •Infrared •Early photographic processes, including Autochrome, Calotype, and Daguerreotype •Color toning for B&W photos, many variations including split toning •Blur caused by plastic lenses •“Glamour Shots” soft focus •Vignette, wide range of shapes •Dust & scratches •Cross processing, many variations •Wide range of Lo-Fi presets to simulate cheap plastic cameras •Wide range of fading and aging effects •Bleach Bypass