Wednesday, October 16, 2013

LightZone now Open Source

Digital Photography Review reports: [edited]

LightZone is powerful raw image file developer and editing software, with a polished, pleasant user interface and decent help files. Online forum support is available and it has a growing, active user community.

LightZone 4.0 is now Free (as in Freedom) software and it is available from Lightzone.org under a BSD license for Windows, Mac and Linux.

LightZone uses the dcraw library to open raw files, software that is well maintained and periodically updated.
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2 comments:

Conrad Gempf said...

Have you used it, Brett? What would the average person use it for, compared to, say, PhotoshopElements or Acorn?

Brett Jordan said...

hi conrad,

i haven't used it, and don't intend to as i already own lightroom

from the many positive reviews, it would appear to be a powerful editor for raw images... it works in a very different way from adobe's products, but the results are impressive, especially its black and white 'filters'

 
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