After choosing a preset, you can then experiment further with film grain, vignettes, borders, textures, and light leaks. With your image in the main window, quickly mouse and hover through the categories to instantly preview changes to both images and settings.

It also includes numerous film and slide types, styles, and special effects like daguerreotype, autochrome, lo-fi, bokeh, infrared, cross processing, split toning, color fading, and more. The Autochrome filter harks back to a color process developed in 1907, which combined layers of dyed potato starch grains on glass plates. Exposure X stylizes a scene for a distinctive look by simulating both old and modern films with 15 categories of color and 12 categories of black and white in familiar brands like Agfa, Kodak, Fuji, and others. To fulfill the artistic impulse to connect with and replicate that old-time flair, Alien Skin’s Exposure X (US$149) is available as a standalone photo filter or plug-in to Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, offering myriad presets and variations.

What’s missing to contemporary shutterbugs is film’s atmospheric aura. No, not the suspense of anticipating the quality of a 36-picture roll, or the risk of blowing an entire shoot with a tiny mistake, or the time and chemistry required for developing and printing. With digital photography now nearly an obsession, it’s surprising the extent to which so many shooters-including those who came of age in the digital era-miss the look of film.

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