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This bears a very rough resemblance to the tone curves in Adobe Lightroom. What has always fascinated me about LightZone is its key tool, something called the zone mapper. This is not possible in Lightroom, which has no selection tool.īut LightZone isn't just about selective editing. LightZone, like Photoshop, allows selective editing, meaning that I can select a region of a photo (say, the sky) and change the contrast in that region without affecting other parts of the photo. Well, for many users of Adobe Lightroom, that's where Photoshop comes in, but I hate Photoshop. But Lightroom has its weakesses, especially as an editor, and that's where LightZone comes in. Lightroom's greatest strength is really photo processing and management, that is, with Adobe Lightroom, I can review, evaluate, tag, and process (edit) a lot of photos very efficiently. Even so, Adobe Lightroom remains a multi-faceted app that does a bit of everything, including photo editing, creating web sites, print managment. That's why Adobe created Lightroom, which, unlike Photoshop, is designed specifically and exclusively to meet the needs of photographers. It was never intended to be just for editing images, and is still used for logo design and creative art work, as well as photo editing. As everybody knows, Photoshop is so powerful you can dispense with the camera altogether and just paint fairies and unicorns if you like. What are those benefits? The main one is that LightZone is nothing but a photo editor, and it's a darned good one. It's still too slow, but I can live with that in return for its other benefits. And I saw some video clips that demonstrate a couple of the key tools in LightZone and that helped me grasp the program's approach.
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Well, they had a sale this month (November 2007) that brought the price down. In the past, I thought it was too expensive and too slow, and I had trouble really "getting" what LightZone is all about. I've tried several previous demos but didn't buy for various reasons. I finally broke down and purchased Light Crafts LightZone photo editor.