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Is Alien Skin Exposure X2 an alternative for apps such as Adobe

Lightroom? It depends on your needs. With Exposure X2’s latest

Advanced Layers update, the app offers nondestructive RAW

editing and better organization, enhancement, and export-

ing capabilities.

In this update, Exposure X2’s nondestructive layering not only

works with brushed adjustments and effects, but applies to pre-

sets, as well. This means you can apply a preset to a layer, then

quickly remove (or add) effects, or make them weaker or stronger

on another layer—and possibly only in some parts of the image.

The new advanced layering lets you finish a retouching

job much faster; for example, I could first apply a preset that

I tuned down by lowering the intensity and adding several

one-effect-per-layer adjustments. More importantly, I applied

those layered effects on multiple images simultaneously,

all without incurring even the most minor speed drop on my

Theodore Kefalopoulos

Company: Alien Skin Software

Price: $149 (Upgrade: $99)

Rating:

Hot: Unique approach for editing/organizing;

multi-image editing; multi-location

quick export

Not:

Review by Erik Vlietinck

Another Kind of Photo Editor/Organizer

Alien Skin

Exposure X2