noupe: If you want to do quick everyday photo manipulations on a bunch of images, you will usually not go for Photoshop. Adobe Lightroom is what people inside the Photoshop universe will recommend you. A while ago, we already introduced you to a free competitor of Adobe’s commercial solution, Darktable (which is great). Today we have an even greater solution for you. The formerly commercial, now Open Source tool LightZone will really excite you. The most enthralling thing is, it works totally different from anything you know…
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I love the idea of a non destructive image editor. This solves the problem of getting most of the way through the manipulation to find that step 2 is just wrong and having to start over. While this is certainly not as powerful as photoshop it could be a very cool product to use and I love the price point. I find it really funny that the founder of the company that used to sell this gave all of his company up to go work for apple. I really like the idea of open source but I am curious if this software with the zone concept could be used for scenic design rendering touch ups. I would also wonder since it is going from a paid product to a open source product how good the technical support is going to be when something goes wrong with the coding or you find a glitch. I am also curious to know what the major drawback is to this in comparison to Adobe Lightroom. Adobe is pretty savvy and I do not see them trying to buy this up as a competitor so I wonder what the limits are on this software package.
Similarly to Luke, every photo editor enjoys the idea of a non-destructive program. I've been an avid photographer for a few years now, and am always searching for the right program. The article is right, photoshop is way to specific for this type of general work when doing multiple photos, whereas Lightroom is not. I am also very curious to see how this program matches up to something on the caliber of Adobe's Lightroom, especially now that it is open sourced and most likely not getting updated and scrutinized as often as it should be.
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