Note: the two polaroid images in this post are actual polaroids and not frames from ASE. Nothing finishes the job better.Īlien Skin have been kind enough to offer a discount code, so if you’re interested in buying it, use the coupon code “ JON0214” and you will get a 10% discount.Īll the images below have been edited with Alien Skin Exposure 5. I’m sure the film shooters will tell me to shoot film if I want that film look and I do, I shoot a lot of film, but I also shoot a lot of digital and for those times I still prefer to use Alien Skin Exposure. On some images I use its light leaks and if I’m feeling extra playful I’ll use its textures or frames.

It gives me a final tweak of colours and contrast and I also always add ASE film grain to soften them up (for lack of a better word). When I shoot digital, it’s important for me to look a little less digital and ASE is the perfect tool for that. If you edit your raw images using LR or ACR, you probably know that the fake film grain looks horrible. At it’s core Alien Skin Exposure or ASE is a great film emulator that gives your images the illusion of having been shot on film. While version 2.5 took a big step with the addition of layers, the current Exposure X3 adds new features that increase the software’s capabilities and appeal.

Every single one of the images I’ve won awards for have been finished off with Alien Skin Exposure. Alien Skin Exposure software has grown from its start as a plug-in with great analog presets into a raw processor with an ever-expanding feature set. Before that last step, my image will be a work in progress, after, it’s ready to publish or print. No matter what I do to an individual edit, I will finish it off with Alien Skin Exposure. Sometimes I do dodging or burning, adding punch or selective sharpening or other things that draws your eyes to the right part of the image.īut I also always use Alien Skin Exposure. These images never gets batch edited using VSCO. I use presets that work well across all images, meaning the presets needs to be light enough to work for different light conditions.īut when it comes to individual images, images I’ve worked more on, portfolio images, your creme de la creme, I do other things. Not much, but a tweak of colours and contrast at least. As a wedding photographer it’s often necessary to get through a huge number of images and VSCO helps me to give them all bit of a look. In a couple of previous posts I’ve gone through my batch processing using VSCO Film.

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