Intelligent Tools
LightZone's intelligent editing tools help adjust exposures, boost overall color, correct color shifts and white balance errors, sharpen or blur, remove dust spots and reduce the noise often found in high-ISO digital photographs.
LightZone's intelligent tools use patented image analysis technology that understands photographs and helps make better editing decisions and produces higher quality images. The tool stack operations are always live, taking the guesswork out of the process. What you see is what you get.
Maximum flexibility.
And of-course, LightZone provides professional features to crop and rotate your photographs.
ZoneMapper
A very common problem in photography is that
images appear underexposed (dark and undefined) in
certain areas, over-exposed (bright and undefined)
in others and usually, correctly exposed near the
focal point of the camera.
The ZoneMapper corrects that problem by automatically breaking the photograph down into 16 exposure zones (implied selections) allowing highlights, midtones, or shadows to be adjusted immediately, individually and with ease.
Black and white
The B&W tool allows you to convert your
color photo into a black-and-white photo and
individually control the red, green, and blue
channels. An easy to use strength control adds to
colorization
Color balance
Reducing color casts is most easily done for
photos that were taken under mixed lighting
conditions and have easily identifyable neutral
grays.
The Color balance tool allows you to adjust the color balance of your photo around a specified point of the tonal range. Additionally, the Color balance tool also allows you to reduce color casts by selecting neutral gray points, that is points that you want to be neutral gray in your photo.
Sharpen
Most digital photos have a slight softness in
the fine details and would benefit from sharpening.
The Sharpen tool allows you to sharpen all or parts of your photo using a technique based on the tradition of using an unsharp mask in a darkroom to increase the perception of sharpness by emphasizing edges.
Red Eye removal
The Red-Eye tool allows for easy and accurate
correction of red eye problems.
The ZoneMapper corrects that problem by automatically breaking the photograph down into 16 exposure zones (implied selections) allowing highlights, midtones, or shadows to be adjusted immediately, individually and with ease.
Black and white
Color balance
The Color balance tool allows you to adjust the color balance of your photo around a specified point of the tonal range. Additionally, the Color balance tool also allows you to reduce color casts by selecting neutral gray points, that is points that you want to be neutral gray in your photo.
Sharpen
The Sharpen tool allows you to sharpen all or parts of your photo using a technique based on the tradition of using an unsharp mask in a darkroom to increase the perception of sharpness by emphasizing edges.
Red Eye removal
Re-light
The Re-light tool allows you to adjust the
global and local contrast of all or parts of your
photo.
The Re-light tool does this by reducing the large scale contrast and, at the same time, increasing the local contrast. This mimics the behavior of the human visual system and makes your photo more appealing and easier to work with.
Spot
The Spot tool allows you to remove
round dust, scratches, blemishes, or other
unwanted items from your photo.
Clone
The Clone tool allows you to copy an area of
any shape of your photo to another area. This can
be used to remove unwanted items from your photo.
White Balance
The White balance tool allows you to adjust
the white balance and tint of your photo to
compensate for color cast in the light source such
as the blue cast of the sky or tungsten lighting.
Blur
The Blur tool allows you to blur all or parts
of your photo by a specified radius. This can be
used to soften grainy or blemished areas, or to
create out-of-focus areas.
Noise reduction
The Noise reduction tool allows you to reduce
"noise" that is often present in digital photos as
a result of the sensors in digital cameras. The
tool reduces noise in either chromaticity or
luminance (or both).
The Re-light tool does this by reducing the large scale contrast and, at the same time, increasing the local contrast. This mimics the behavior of the human visual system and makes your photo more appealing and easier to work with.
Spot
Clone
White Balance
Blur
Noise reduction