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Free LightZone 3.3

Written by IT News on 12:23 AM

LightZone is a proprietary photo browser and editor for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. It's like Photoshop and The Gimp, but it's easier to use and focused on photography.

LightZone photo editor features raw file support, high-fidelity color space management, color-managed printing and completely non-destructive editing

The Linux tarball is a complete binary including a manual and a Sun Java JRE. It requires no privileges and runs no install scripts.

LightZone is a proprietary photo editor developed by Light Crafts, Inc. of Palo Alto, CA.

Requirements:

• Expect this to run on x86 linux with at least 1GB RAM. 64-bit processors (AMD64/EM64T) may work too, in 32-bit mode. Other platforms won't work.
• Any modern linux distro should be OK. No special packages are required. Any desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.) or window manager should be fine.
• Java 1.4.2 or later

What's New in This Release:
LightZone Re-Light Tool creates HDR images from a single exposure

• In contrast, with just a click, the LightZone Relight Tool reveals hidden HDR detail in both the highlights and the shadows, using just a single exposure. For instance, you’ll see both saturated colors of a sunset and bright detail in the face of a back lit subject that was formerly lost. Achieving such stunning results from a single exposure without LightZone would require multiple flashes, reflectors and shades at the time the photograph -- if it could be possible at all.

Light Crafts’ commitment to Linux, Mac and Windows

• “The Linux release is our latest initiative to make LightZone available to as many users on as many operating systems as possible. Light Crafts serves a diverse Linux community consisting of many creative individuals who want the same high quality, robustness and powerful commercial photo-editing tools that are available for Windows and Mac users,” said Fabio Riccardi, CEO, Light Crafts. “With LightZone for Linux, we can provide even more photographers with easy-to-use and innovative software.

The new Linux version has been internally tested on such popular distributions as Ubuntu, Red Hat and Debian, with others planned.

Developer: Anton Kast
License: Freely Distributable
Price: FREE
Last Updated: December 19th, 2007 11:27
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Linux Photographers, LightZone Is Here!

Written by IT News on 11:33 PM

A free Linux version of the award-winning LightZone photo-editing software has been released yesterday.

Light Crafts, the producing company of LightZone, announced yesterday the availability of a beta release for the photo-editing software. With the help of this version, Linux users now have all the LightZone tools for editing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have already had, including the ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools.

With LightZone, you can improve any photo regardless of camera type. It doesn't matter if you
take a photo with a mobile phone, a point and click or a professional camera. The application is very intuitive, applies very fast changes and can eliminate some repeatable tasks, such as red eye or back lighting.

With ZoneMapper and Zone Tools, digital photographers can easily apply the ZoneSystem, developed by Ansel Adams in 1941, in order to produce photos with exceptional exposure and tonal ranges. The ZoneMapper Tool helps the users to find similar exposure areas within a photo, and the Zone Tool adjusts these tonal groups.

The LightZone Relight feature recaptures the High Dynamic Range (HDR) images a person saw when he/she took a photograph. LightZone doesn't require any special purpose camera settings or multiple exposures.

Fabio Riccardi, CEO, Light Crafts said: "The Linux release is our latest initiative to make LightZone available to as many users on as many operating systems as possible. Light Crafts serves a diverse Linux community consisting of many creative individuals who want the same high quality, robustness and powerful commercial photo-editing tools that are available for Windows and Mac users. With LightZone for Linux, we can provide even more photographers with easy-to-use and innovative software."

The new version, 3.3B Beta, was tested on popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, etc. The tests will continue on other distros, too.
Download LightZone 3.3