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What it allows you to do, though, is quickly focus your adjustments for a given layer by masking specific subject areas off from the rest based upon their combined hue, saturation and luminance ranges.ģD Color Masking makes it easy to target adjustments at specific image areas based on hue, saturation and luminance ranges, and you can then use a brush tool to further refine your selection. This powerful new control, which you can see below, is perhaps a bit intimidating when you first access it, and the meanings of its many presets can be a bit obtuse.
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3D Color Masking is a bit complex, but very powerfulĪmong the newly-added features in Exposure X5, the standout is probably the new 3D Color Masking tool, which is part of the masking panel that slides out from beneath the layers panel when you click the brush tool. Pinch-zoom and drag-to-pan gestures aren't supported, and fiddling with scroll bars or trying to select the right tiny slider can quickly become frustrating. Touchscreens and pens are supported well for subject selection, but less so for menu control. I used 3D Color Masking to select the man in the red shirt and cap, then painted the red wire wheelrim in the foreground out of my selection, before desaturating and shifting hue to a less jarring color. Sadly, you can't have left and right sidebars on both at once, with each bar assignable either to the left or right monitor. Dual-monitor setups are also catered to, with the image browser on one screen and the full-sized image on the other. It's also worth noting that high DPI screens are quite well-supported.
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At 4K resolution on a fairly powerful modern Windows laptop, full-screen adjustments lag real time by a fraction of a second, but at Full HD resolution they're essentially instant. High DPI displays are supported well, and touch/pen control is availableĪs soon as the data has copied to your machine, thumbnails appear near-instantly, and full-sized previews also render within moments. Exposure X5 can transfer images from your camera or flash card if desired, but there's otherwise no lengthy wait for images to be added to the database and previews created. The difference is especially noticeable when you first open a newly-offloaded folder of images.
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Results of the new Ilford FP4 Plus 125 filter.