Just about a year ago I wrote a blog for Inside Lightroom that suggested considering using Light Craft's LightZone to further enhance the power of Lightroom with a non-destructive editing tool that could also do regional adjustments.

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It's a great time to be a digital photographer. The price of digital SLR cameras is falling, and in the last year or so some amazing new software packages have debuted that make advanced photo editing easier and more affordable than ever before.

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If you long for simplicity in photo editing in an un-bloated piece of software, give LightZone 3.0.6 a try. Its unique visual approach to editing, time-saving Styles, and well-designed help system will aid the learning process. At the speed at which major enhancements are being released, I can’t wait to see version 4.

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Once you become familiar with the concepts underlying how LightZone works, it, isn’t difficult to learn. There are many sliders and choices which you can choose to improve your original photo. If you do not like the result, an Undo button is always available.

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There’s little doubt one can move from RAW file to optimized image in very short order without resorting to levels graphs, curves charts, and so many other previously required pixel-based tools. I’d like to make LightZone a permanent part of my workflow suite.

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In an autonomous review of LightZone in American Photo Magazine, LightZone version 2 ranked as highest premium photo-editor above Adobe® Photoshop CS3 for its broad and innovative imaging capabilities.

The sooner-than-expected introduction of version 3 only a few months after the previous release, shows impressive dynamics in LightCraft's pipeline.

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Lightzone 3.0 is clearly a major upgrade of this interesting application. The new Style implementation is very innovative and the new Relight tool can save and improve many images. Overall we would say that this is clearly a new incarnation of Lightzone worth the 3.0 label.

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The software is a very useful tool for basic and advanced photo editing, without having a large learning curve like with Photoshop. Prime example being myself; I've been playing with this software for only a few days and already I feel a certain level of mastery over it's functions. I'm certain that, because the way in which LightZone operates is extremely intuitive, the novice will catch on quickly after going through tutorials like this :-) Already, I'm extremely impressed with how easy and fast I can do edits with LightZone!

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This application just keeps getting better at a blistering pace - updates are coming almost monthly now. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again - go download the trial version and give it a spin. It may well revolutionize how you edit your images!

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I have only scratched the surface of what the application is capable of. You may well find that it provides everything you need for a total workflow. I strongly urge you to take a look at it - I don’t think you will be disappointed!

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Lots of photographers couldn't care less about removing their ex from a photo, adding text, or taking years off the life of a subject. What they really want to do is fix the things that they could always fix in the darkroom -- contrast, tone, and color. Light Crafts' Light-Zone 2.0 is a program for those who've gotten fed up with learning software that has far more tools than they could ever use, and who instead want more control over the way their pictures look.

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LightZone 2.0 is yet another intuitive RAW editing tool, but it’s actually a powerful tool to consider…

The best feature to me is the ZoneMapper tool… ZoneMapper allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast of all or parts of your photo for any combination of the highlights, midtones, or shadows.

Now I am a big fan of Nikon Capture NX, which also allows to apply your adjustment to “zones” very specifically, that coming from Nikon, it’s a hard task to beat them at their own game but LightZone actually did it!!

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LightZone is a simple yet powerful image editor. LightZone is easy to learn and let's you focus on your images. We will follow the development of this editor very closely because we see a great potential using LightZone.

> LightZone provides right now the easiest way to learn and use a layer based workflow (which we recommend for some years in our e-books)
> For advanced users LightZone provides a powerful photographic tool to optimize photos.

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Photoshop is a great, blundering battleship of a thing that’s not half as clever as it thinks it is. And it takes a program like LightZone to show you just where Photoshop is going wrong.

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Correction layers, selections and blending now a part of the RAW-to-rendered process.

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With LightZone, all edits are non-destructive and reversible, so cropping and rotation are simply filters on the image. Turn them on and off as needed, so a single source file can be used for all your output of a particular image.

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