What we believe in
Light Crafts is a company that believes passionately in the power of digital photography. We think everyone’s photos should look great, and that getting them to look that way should be simple.
Light Crafts knows that photo management — the process of importing, organizing, editing, storing and sharing can, and should be, intuitive, and powerful.
What we do
We create powerful, yet easy-to-use and learn digital photo editing software for photographers of all stripes.
We’re the makers of LightZone that’s for serious photographers who like to make photo editing simple. It is both easy-to-learn and incredibly flexible and powerful.
We also have created a consumer product, Aurora, that just makes photos better — intuitively and powerfully.
Both use visual editing at their core, and take complex algorithms, and a thorough understanding of how the human eye sees things, make photos look better, and more realistic.
Who we are
Light Crafts was founded in 2004 by Fabio Riccardi. PhD. who holds degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He’s an entrepreneur who has started two companies, and a physicist who has worked at CERN in Geneva Switzerland.
The Light Crafts team of software engineers, customer support, marketers and operations folks gather daily on the third floor of a building in Palo Alto, California.
The company is privately-funded.
A note from our Founder
I’ve always been interested in photography, and after my son was born, I found myself taking a lot more photographs of our family and experiences.
Like many people, I often looked at my photos and found myself frustrated and puzzled as to why they didn’t look more like what I had seen in real-life.?Naturally, I turned to photo editing to see how I could make my photographs resemble what I had tried to capture with my camera.
I found available photo editing options to either be too complicated and hard to learn, or too simplistic with results that looked almost cartoon-ish.?My background is in electrical engineering, computer science and physics. When I founded Light Crafts, I started studying how the human eye processes images and compresses information.
It was fascinating to me how the human eye can find so much more detail in our environment than a camera can, and I wanted to explore how software could mimic the ability of the eye and brain to process images so that through photo-editing your images could look more like what you had seen in real-life.?
With that philosophy in mind, I founded Light Crafts in 2004, and we developed our first product, LightZone, in 2005. LightZone is aimed at the professional market.
The development of LightZone, as well as our continued research into how the human eye processes images, led us to develop Aurora for the consumer market.
—Fabio Riccardi, Founder and CEO of Light Crafts
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