![]() ![]() I like the intuitive approach that Lightroom has but I like the zone controls in Lightzone and the geometry controls in Picture Window Pro. I know that it is the standard and I do use it but it is a pain to learn fully and, for me, it is just too big and cumbersome. I wish that some company would look at all the tools from all the smaller programs and combine them into one comprehensive photo application so I did not have to use PSCS2. Although, I felt that Lightroom was closer to a commercial product than Lightzone. I found each to have some very interesting tools and yet neither were exactly ready for prime time. I have downloaded both applications and have been using them for about two weeks. Your comments and reviews gave me some additional perspective. The best way to learn abt LZ is to download it and to go thru any of the tutorials available at their website.Īnyway I just noticed that 2.0beta2 is out time to try it. Obviously LZ is miles ahead of Lightroom in terms of its editing capabilities.Īs a raw converter however, IMHO blown highlight recovery is subpar and getting the right colors is much harder than in Bibble/Silkypix to put an example (I use MRW). Nonetheless a very useful tool.Īs a PS noob, I have found that with LZ I have immediately started to experiment with selections and blend modes, something I probably would have never ventured to do in PS. This is to say that LZ is much easier to use but also obviously a much less powerful retoucher/editor. In PS only some tools can be on an adjustment layer and the tool values are not visible, furthermore you end up having to UNDO/REDO the blur/usm/selections and the interface is much less friendlier (sure, if you are an advanced user you know hotkeys.) IMHunexpertO this is what makes LZ easy to use, you simply open the tools, apply them to regions as needed and then simply adjust the tool values and selections till you get the desired results. And every tool can be applied to a vectorial selection which can be modified at any time (as any adjustment in a raw converter). It goes beyond normal raw converters in that every tool is stacked (as many times as you need) in a way akin to a photoshop adjustment layer, and unlike photoshop even the USM and blur tools behave this way. Lightzone is not only about the "zone system" and the zone finder tool, which is rather useful graphical representation of a curve. Landscape which was good but not complete enough for me ( I can beĪ little dense getting all the points involved in processing apps.) It would be great if either included the Geometry tools thatĪlso is there a free Lightroom tutorial floating around anywhere,Īll I have been able to find is the review/tutorial on Luminous ![]() Seem to have good or great points but also some real rough edges. Has anyone done a comparison of these two applications? They both Years and hours? Geesh!! Gimme a break.hehehehehe The concept of 'zoning' skintones like their main page suggests selective editing for hair and skin.yeah right! Also, the statements that LZ allows you to become proficient at image editing (let's define that) in a matter of hours as opposed to years and you can retouch your images in minutes as opposed to hours (hours?) makes you wonder who would really believe this. If there was, I'd be jumping on it in a heartbeat. Plus, there are no added benefits to the output LZ gives you over LR or any of the other RC's. The Zone system has its merits if you wanna spend an inordinate amount of time with one image but fast becomes useless in an everyday workflow. Lightzone falls into the hyped catergory as it didn't take long to see what a workflow kludge this would be. I alpha/beta for 2 of the 3 top RAW convertors so it doesn't take long to find which have useful features and which have hyped features. ![]()
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