Alien Skin Exposure2

Well as it says on the tin - Alien Skin Exposure2 is a plug-in for Photoshop, Elements and nost other image editing programs. Exposure provides amateur and professional photographers, with one-click access to the broadest range of film stock and special effects settings available anywhere.

The new version of Exposure delivers even more features that add the look and feel of film to digital photography. Users can easily simulate current and discontinued print and slide film stocks – both black and white and color – and subtly manipulate realistic grain, mimic darkroom effects like push and cross processing, even save a signature look as a preset. What’s more, everything in Exposure 2 is accessible in one simple interface.

 

We took a look at these filters and they work very well indeed. We first took the image you can see below and applied the Kodak Infrared film Kodak HIE Diffuse/

You can see that this filter has applied bags of good contrast and a diffused grain, and effect that I recall from my days of using B&W infrared film.

If you look at a section of the Exposure2 screen you can see the number of options you have for Infrared film alone, the one we used above is high lighted.

In addition to the one click preset that we used, we also have a number of tabs where we can then adjust the present using a colour tab, tone, focus, grain and Infrared.

So with a change of one slider we can add more halation opacity to add a glow that we often saw with Infrared film.

Here our image is seen through the eyes of Ilford Delta 100 film

There are just too many different film types and options to cover on these pages. It is sufficient to say that you have enough variety here to keep you busy for ages. We have not even touched the colour side of these filters yet. Take a look at this option to fade all leaving strong reds.

In our next example it is listed as a Daguerrotype sepia