Is Exposure X5 a alternative To answer the opening question yes with some limitations.

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October 2019 Allgemein 2 Comments Last week Exposure Software released version X5 of their image processing tool, which is called the best editor for creative photography.

Introduction Exposure, formerly knwon as Alien Skin software, unveiled with X5 a image processing tool which looks a lot like Lightroom.

All standard processing tools are available including layers.

With these features Expsoure X5 Exposure is at the same level like for example ON1 Photo RAW.

Alien Exposure X5 Mac OS And Costs

Exposure X5 is available for Windows and Mac OS and costs 119, (Upgrade 89).

I cant say if this price includes the german VAT or if this tax comes on top of the price.

The supported cameras are listed here and the lens can be found here.

There are no different modules like in Lightroom all items (grid view, keywords,presets,developement) is in the same window.

There is a solo-mode available but there are also a lot presets or development settings.

And with this the solo-modes reaches its limit pretty fast and all seems a little bit overloaded, even though the side panels can be hidden.

No import And to work with folders and images there is no need for importing first in Exposure X5.

If you want to switch from Lightroom to Expousre X5 it might be interesting to know, that Exposure X5 offers a migration function.

This exports metadata and keywords and some other settings via a Lightroom plugin to Exposure X5.

Customize panels The panels can be customized to your needs: You can arrange the histogram or the navigator to the right hand side or move some development settings to the bottom of the list.

Too bad that there is no opportunity to reduce the enumerous presets to those you really need.

Exporting images Exposure X5 offers a couple of different export presets and the ability to define your export presets.

Besides this all needed options for the export are available including watermarks, resizing and to filter out some of the meatdata in the exported image.

Compared with Lightroom a sample export of 20 Tiff images was a little bit slower, but i dont overrate this.

Alien Exposure X5 Manual Collections Exposure

Smart Collections Besdies the regular manual collections Exposure X5 supports smart collections, where a pirece of metadata determine the inclusion in this collection.

Overall the queries are not as sophisticated as in Lightroom, but more sufficient to manage your images.

Alien Skin Exposure X5