LightZone: new image editing app

Edson · 28 Feb 2009, 12:09

i just stumbled across LightZone a new, easy to learn and cheap image processing app. watching the videos left me quite impressed. there versions for windows mac and linux.

dale · 28 Feb 2009, 14:44

This does look interesting, and not a bad price point either. Have you had a chance to play with it?

Edson · 28 Feb 2009, 15:05

not yet. it is on a list of apps i want to test... from the videos i gather that if you have some experience with photoshop it will be very easy to work with ligthwave. at least in terms of image edition it seems to do the same for a fraction of the price.

thomthom · 28 Feb 2009, 16:25

Looks interesting. Claims quite a few non-destructive actions.

xrok1 · 28 Feb 2009, 23:13

trying it now, its fantastic! most better workflow than PS at least for non experts like me. much more intuative. the only thing i would like to see that i haven't found yet is magic wand and alpha masking. if they add those two things i'll buy two copies and throw PS in the garbage.

i just love the drag with the mouse interactive feathering, the history, the original view button... very slick!

xrok1 · 1 Mar 2009, 00:09

hmmm. its seems to only support .jpg and .tif, that could be a problem.

AcesHigh · 31 Mar 2009, 17:43

is it better than GIMP?

so far, GIMP is the most famous free substitute for Photoshop.

thomthom · 31 Mar 2009, 17:50

@aceshigh said:

is it better than GIMP?

so far, GIMP is the most famous free substitute for Photoshop.

Depends on what kind of work you do. I don't see GIMP as a substitute for the stuff I do.
Though, this LightZone looks interesting. Lots of non-destructive actions.

Ecuadorian · 31 Mar 2009, 18:16

Wow, I hadn't heard of a non-destructive photo editor in years!
Thanks for the heads up

thomthom · 31 Mar 2009, 18:37

@ecuadorian said:

Wow, I hadn't heard of a non-destructive photo editor in years!
Thanks for the heads up

Photoshop has quite a few non-destructive methods with smart-objects, smart-filters and adjustment layers.

cdubea · 21 Apr 2009, 20:14

@edson said:

i just stumbled across LightZone a new, easy to learn and cheap image processing app. watching the videos left me quite impressed. there versions for windows mac and linux.

Lightzone has been around for a while. It's a fairly innovating tool and also supports most RAW file format's.

chris