Exposure X6’s hybrid approach to cataloguing does mean that searches can sometimes taken longer, but the simplicity of the system and its ‘always live’ folder display help make up for that. There’s no import process and no need to sync your catalog with our folders to catch up with any external changes that may have been made in the way that you have to with regular cataloguing tools like Lightroom or Capture One.Īnd yet you can still add keywords (even to RAW files), create Albums and Smart Albums too. You choose the folders you want to include by ‘bookmarking’ them, and after that Exposure X6 will browse, catalog and search them ‘live’. Exposure X6 cataloguing toolsĮxposure X6 has a neat hybrid cataloguing system that doesn’t need an import process, displays folder contents ‘live’ but can still create Collections and Smart Collections.Įxposure X6 has a very simple system for cataloguing your photos. It also works as an external editor with Capture One, so likewise, if you prefer Capture One’s RAW processing and want to use it to ‘pre-edit’ RAW files before sending them to Exposure X6, that works very well too. If you like its effects but prefer Lightroom’s RAW processing and workflow, it fits in just fine. Its RAW processing is not perhaps of quite the same standard as Adobe’s, Capture One’s or DxO PhotoLab’s, but its analog effects, presets and styles go further to include image borders, textures and light leaks that would normally need a bitmap-based photo-editor to create – yet in Exposure X6 they are all part of the same non-destructive workflow.Įxposure X6 works both as a standalone all-in-one program and as a plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop. It has a large library of effects presets which evoke analog films, darkroom effects and styles, but at the same time it has a broad range of modern editing tools to match pretty well anything in Lightroom, Capture One and other rivals. See also: Best image editing software – what to look for, how to chooseĮxposure X6 feels like it has one foot in the past and one foot in the future.

Note that if you buy Exposure X6 now (from July 27 2021, in fact), you will get Exposure X7 free when it arrives. See the Exposure X7 news story for an early preview of some of the new features. UPDATE: Exposure X7 is coming this autumn (2021).

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