I have seen how photographers I respect have had good things to say about Lightroom from Adobe and I started doing a little research.<\/p>\n
In the course of that, I ran into LightZone<\/em> from Light Crafts<\/em>. Their webpage is at http:\/\/www.lightcrafts.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n I use Linux and Light Crafts is giving away the version for Linux for free. So there was nothing to lose.<\/p>\n Turns out that there was a lot to win. The program is inspired by the zone system instead of just curves and levels. It offers a more intuitive way to work for a photographer.<\/p>\n What I appreciate is the possibility to mimic split filter printing, that is, one filter to bring out details in the highlights and another to create some deep shadows.<\/p>\n I tried it on a jpeg (I didn’t have the TIFF scan available when I did this test … on the train) that is from a shot I took this week.<\/p>\n
![First proof with only Photoshop<\/a>.<\/p>\nI did fairly well (needs some touching up, but otherwise I was fairly satisfied as a first proof.<\/p>\nThen I processed the image in LightZone. LightZone works with layers without pains (and non-destructive editing). When you adjust contrast, you can put in stoppers so that your adjustments only affect a certain part of the scale. So I could work with the highlights and the shadows separately.<\/p>\nAn amateur’s first attempt at LightZone<\/a>.<\/p>\nI think I am going to be able to learn this … and like it.<\/p>\nI’ll be ordering the Windows version and paying, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have seen how photographers I respect have had good things to say about Lightroom from Adobe and I started doing a little research. In the course of that, I ran into LightZone from Light Crafts. Their webpage is at http:\/\/www.lightcrafts.com. I use Linux and Light Crafts is giving away the version for Linux for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/v\/Shoebox\/2007v11\/07v11-0008.jpg.html\"){kind=link}
![An amateur’s first attempt at LightZone<\/a>.<\/p>\nI think I am going to be able to learn this … and like it.<\/p>\nI’ll be ordering the Windows version and paying, no doubt about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have seen how photographers I respect have had good things to say about Lightroom from Adobe and I started doing a little research. In the course of that, I ran into LightZone from Light Crafts. Their webpage is at http:\/\/www.lightcrafts.com. I use Linux and Light Crafts is giving away the version for Linux for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/gallery\/v\/Shoebox\/2007v11\/07v11-0008lz.jpg.html\"){kind=link}