Lightcrafts releases LightZone 3.0

The upgraded application bids on unique visual approach to digital photo editing, allowing you to focus on what you want to do with your photos, not how you do it. All operations have an immediate effect upon which you can make new editing decisions. The software allows you to enhance photos in a simple and natural way, without the steep learning-curve found in many other software programs.

LightZone is a complete digital image editing application in a single software package, allowing the editing of any format from RAW photographs to JPEG, TIFF or DNG photos. LightZone's intelligent editing features help adjust exposures, boost overall color, correct color shifts and white balance errors, selectively sharpen or blur images or parts of images, remove dust spots and reduce the noise often found in high-ISO digital images.

Any of the 16 exposure values in an image can be adjusted with a single slider: individually, grouped or selectively. All operations are performed in a 16-bit dynamic range for maximum editing flexibility.

Edit instructions are stored as non destructive operational layers (rather than pixel layers). Individual edit operations can be sequenced differently and turned on or off.

Lightzone has also powerful selections and mask for accurate adjustments to be made. LightZone's live-regions with feathering can be changed in shape, or moved even after the edit is applied. Regions are linked to individual tools, allowing for very detailed editing operations.

For more detail on the new LightZone features visit the LightZone info page.