LightZone wins 2007 Eddy Award

On December 19th, 2007 LightZone was awarded the prestigious Macworld's Editors' Choice award. Macworld writes, "It’s quite an impressive array of products—but a few in particular always stand out from the crowd. It’s these products that meet our high standards for quality, innovation, or value—and in some cases, all three. Because of that, they win some well-deserved time in the spotlight as winners of our annual Editors’ Choice Awards."

With Light Crafts’ LightZone, you get an efficient, streamlined piece of software that offers a unique approach to photo editing for a good deal less than what you’d pay for Photoshop. The program’s signature feature, the ZoneMapper tool, lets you easily see the tonal range of your images by dividing your photos into 16 shades of gray that represent tonal differences of half an f-stop. Mouse over any shade, and the corresponding areas show up in the ZoneFinder display, a gray-scale miniature of the image you’re working on. To change tonal distribution, simply move your mouse within the ZoneMapper—a live preview of the image lets you adjust your pictures in real time. While ZoneMapper, which gets its name from Ansel Adams’ Zone System, is a marquee feature, it’s just one of a slew of other lighting and editing tools in LightZone that are just as intuitive.