PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - March 12, 2008) - Light Crafts, today announced the immediate availability and revised pricing of its award-winning photo-enhancing software, LightZone 3.5. This latest version comes with access to an extensive video learning center, additional camera compatibility and revised pricing of up to $50 off. Read More...

LightZone 3.4 With Enhanced Style Capabilities Now Available

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - January 24, 2008) - Light Crafts today announced the immediate availability of LightZone 3.4, the latest release of its award-winning photo editing software. This recent iteration includes seven style families and 38 pre-defined styles that can all be viewed and applied directly with just a click of the mouse. Read More...

Free Linux Beta Version of Award Winning LightZone Software Now Available

Palo Alto, Calif. – December 18, 2007 –Light Crafts, today announced immediate availability of a Linux version of its award-winning LightZoneTM photo-editing software. With this open beta release, Linux users now have all the powerful LightZone tools for editing, enhancing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have including the innovative ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools. LightZone is the first and only application of its kind spanning all 3 major platforms. The 3.3B beta version of LightZone for Linux is free and available for download at www.lightcrafts.com/linux. Read More...

Users Quickly Transform Original Images into Artistic Photos

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 5, 2007 – Light Crafts, creator of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced general availability of LightZone version 3.1. The release includes new capabilities for quickly changing the look of objects within a photograph, determined by color or luminosity. With a single operation, users can now change the exposure of the sky in an image, sharpen only the yellow flowers in a field, or quickly modify the exposure of a face. This version further extends the selective editing capabilities of LightZone so that users can rapidly edit portions of photographs without altering surrounding details.

“With this release, Light Crafts continues to liberate digital photo-editing users from the tedious technology-focused approach to editing, allowing them instead to focus on the art of image creation,” said Georges van Hoegaerden, Chief Executive Officer of Light Crafts. Read More...

Intuitive design, simple user interface, rapid innovation cited as impressive

Palo Alto, Calif. – August 14, 2007 – Light Crafts, (www.lightcrafts.com) creator of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced LightZone earned 4.5 stars, out of a possible five, in a recent Macworld review. The coveted Macworld review is known for its rigor. This stellar review is the latest in a series of industry accolades.

LightZone has received similar industry validation very recently in a macnn review, and by winning American Photo Magazines Editor’s Choice Award. Read More...

LightZone embraced by schools and educational resellers Gradware and
CampusTech

Palo Alto, Calif. – July 23, 2007 – Light Crafts, creators of LightZone photo-editing
software, today announced that it has signed definitive reseller agreements with
CampusTech (www.campustech.com) and Gradware (www.gradware.com) for the resale of
LightZone to qualified educational buyers, such as students, teachers and schools. One
such school that has chosen LightZone as its primary photo-editing courseware is Mt.
San Antonio College. Read More...

- Easy to Use Photo-Editing Software Allows Photographers of All Levels to Bring their Photographs Back-to-Life -

Download LightZone version 3: What's New and Why, LightZone/Photoshop scorecard.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 21, 2007 -- Light Crafts, creators of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced an upgraded version of its award-winning and patented image analysis and editing software. LightZone 3.0 offers a new approach for a new digital photography market, which applies to all dSLR photographers. Advanced photo editing is made even simpler than before with LightZone’s new, built-in intelligent styles. With LightZone, photographers can quickly convey what they saw, or what they want to evoke, often with a single click.

As the PC is quickly becoming the digital hub of the information age, LightZone is the first product to fulfill the photo-editing needs of all photographers on that platform. The latest version includes new photo management tools and enhanced features, such as instant styles, that make it faster and easier for everyone to edit photographs.

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- LightZone 2.4 adds advanced photo-editing capabilities to Adobe graphic design and video editing suite -

Palo Alto, Calif.—April 30, 2007—Light Crafts, creators of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced the availability of version 2.4, an innovative purpose-built photo-editing application available on Windows® and Mac®. This updated version of Light Crafts’ award winning software is available to eligible Adobe® Creative Suite® users at a discounted rate of $199.95 (regular price: $249.95). The software complements Adobe’s pixel-based editing with LightZone’s more intelligent photo-editing functionality.
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- Award-winning LightZone adds visual photo editing to photo management suites -

PALO ALTO, CA—March 19, 2007—Light Crafts, creators of LightZone photo-editing software, today announced the integration of LightZone with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture and Apple iPhoto. Beginning today, Light Crafts will offer LightZone Basic, its best-of-breed photo-editing package, for the discounted rate of $99.95 (regular price: $149.95) to Lightroom and Aperture users, enabling them to take advantage of patented visual editing technology seamlessly within these proprietary photo databases. Read More...

Light Crafts, Inc., a Palo Alto (CA) based photo editing software company, ushers in a new generation integrated digital workflow tool -- LightZone 2.0 -- to be announced formally at Photokina Cologne, September 27, 2006. LightZone 2.0 is a new intuitive tool which extends the capabilities of professional and amateur photographers.

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