mitchell Posted February 22, 2008 Share #1 Â Posted February 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) I know many love Lightzone, but I get the impression they mostly work in B+W. Â Is Lightzone a good choice for a color guy like myself? Â Does LZ do raw conversions and non-destructive editing? Â Thanks for your help, Â Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rosuna Posted February 22, 2008 Share #2 Â Posted February 22, 2008 I would be happy with DxO and FilmPack, but it doesn't support the Leicas or generic DNG files... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted February 22, 2008 Share #3 Â Posted February 22, 2008 Why not read the web page?. Tells you all you need to know! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samir Jahjah Posted February 22, 2008 Share #4  Posted February 22, 2008 I know many love Lightzone, but I get the impression they mostly work in B+W. Is Lightzone a good choice for a color guy like myself?  Does LZ do raw conversions and non-destructive editing?  Thanks for your help,  Mitchell  Lightzone is so flexible that I don t see why it would not work and meet your color needs! You can apply white balance to selected zones, you can even define a zone based on its color, and apply changes to it from sharpening to hue/saturation. I think you can download it and try it for 15 days. Give it a try. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptomsu Posted February 22, 2008 Share #5 Â Posted February 22, 2008 Tried it yesterday - not convinced: Â 1) It produces a JPEG or TIFF if some changes are made - this is suboptimal, LR and Aperture only store changes - much less space on disk! Â 2) the changes I did in color and light resulted in suboptimal results - edges bleeding out etc... Did the same in LR and it was perfect. Â 3) Printing does not work for my Epson 2400 - the driver is wrong or something. I have no issues printing from LR or Aperture. Â I have no idea why such companies are making potential users unhappy with immature versions of new code. Must be an idiot to buy such things Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted February 23, 2008 Share #6 Â Posted February 23, 2008 Raw Developer beats Lightzone hands down for subtle colour work, especially in hue graduations Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samir Jahjah Posted February 23, 2008 Share #7  Posted February 23, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Tried it yesterday - not convinced: 1) It produces a JPEG or TIFF if some changes are made - this is suboptimal, LR and Aperture only store changes - much less space on disk!  2) the changes I did in color and light resulted in suboptimal results - edges bleeding out etc... Did the same in LR and it was perfect.  3) Printing does not work for my Epson 2400 - the driver is wrong or something. I have no issues printing from LR or Aperture.  I have no idea why such companies are making potential users unhappy with immature versions of new code. Must be an idiot to buy such things  You can set the paraemters of the jpg file it creates, so it can be as small as you want it.  The latitude and range of changes you can do with LZ is much larger and broader than LR...so you can easily mess up the pics. Applied wisely it can produce subtle changes.  I use Imageprint for all my printing and never tried printing from Lightzone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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