The official Linux version of LightZone 3.5 has been released for purchase now, and in testing it, I went back to some images I took at Bosque del Apache last November.
I continue to be amazed at the capabilities of this software. Compare these two versions: the first processed with Lightroom to the best of may ability, the second processed in less than 2 minutes in LightZone.
And take a look at this:
LightZone makes it easy. (I have no commercial interest in Light Crafts!)
Steve, you are definitely right! LightZone is an amazing RAW converter and an excellent post-production piece of software.
I am currently using Linux everywhere at home and LZ is MY converter.
Hi,
Lovely work, but I think you’re doing a bit of a dis-service to Lightroom. It took me less than 2 minutes to turn your top Bosque image into one looking very similar to your bottom one, using the histogram sliders and the HSL box in the Develop module. In general, though, I love the good common sense photography advice in your blogs.
Richard
FX,
What amazes me is that LightZone can dig this kind of detail out of a jpeg. I have not even tried it on RAW files.
Richard,
I actually like Lightroom a lot, and would use it more if it were available or Linux. My travel machine is the linux based eeepc. The one effect I have not been able to duplicate in LR is the “detail” slider in the relight tool in LZ. Super local contrast enhancement.
Thanks for the kind works about the blog. You know what they say about common sense…it would be a great thing if it were not so rare!
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