


Speaking of presets, the hundreds of presets included provide a huge range of effects that can be applied at the click of a button. The graduated filters are fiddly to use and would perhaps be better as dedicated tools rather than masks, but you do get used to how they work – and, being masks, they can be used on adjustment layers for blending in any of Exposure X7’s adjustments or preset effects. (Image credit: James Abbott)īeyond standard raw processing controls and global adjustments, there are localised adjustments that are applied as masks that can be targeted to parts of the image based on colour, luminance and saturation.

Editing tools are displayed in a series of expandable panels in the right sidebar, and combine regular adjustments with analog film effect 'overlays', plus cropping, perspective correction and retouching.
