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I made things that year. A hundred JPEGs, a dozen failed band logos, three CD-R covers for friends' demos. Most are lost now on a hard drive that clicks ominously in a closet. But the feeling remains.

But Exposure 2 was the soul. A black-box emulation of Kodachrome, Polaroid, Agfa Scala. You could slide a photo of a rainy street into Exposure, click "1950s Tri-X pushed 2 stops," and suddenly it wasn't your city anymore. It was noir. It was memory. It was the cover of a jazz record that never existed. I spent a week on a single shot of a payphone (already an antique in 2010), trying to get the grain just right. Alien Skin Software Master Bundle Collection 2010-hufc-

That suite wasn't just software. It was a permission slip. It said: You don't need to know how to paint. You don't need a darkroom. You just need to push this button, then this slider, and see what breaks. I made things that year