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LightZone Delivers the Most Significant Advance in Windows-Based Photo Editing in More Than a Decade  Palo Alto, CA – February 23, 2006
-- Light Crafts, Inc. today announced that the Microsoft Windows
version of its award-winning photo editing software – LightZone™ – is
now available. Designed and built from the ground up for professionals
and other serious photographers, LightZone for Windows is available as
a free 30-day trial at www.lightcrafts.com.
Light Crafts also
announced its Charter Customer Program. Customers who purchase and
register any version of LightZone by March 31, 2006, will receive
lifetime upgrades at no charge.
LightZone, which recently
received a “Best of Show” award at the 2006 Macworld Expo, provides a
better way to edit and correct digital photographs and create stunning
photographic and fine art prints. With LightZone, a digital photograph
can be developed and edited using light values and shapes in a true
non-destructive editing environment. LightZone’s breakthrough
patent-pending technology helps serious photographers achieve
professional results and is easy and intuitive to use.
“With LightZone, Windows users now have access to the easiest-to-use,
professional grade photo editing software in the industry,” said Dean
Tucker, CEO and president of Light Crafts. “Designed for serious
photographers who want to spend more time on photography and less time
learning and using tedious editing software, LightZone gives
photographers more time to focus on their creativity.”
Photographers Praise LightZone
“LightZone
has created a new paradigm for photo editing, one that is more
intuitive and easier to learn than other photo editors on the market,”
said David Cardinal, principal of Cardinal Photo (http://www.cardinalphoto.com).
“Their ZoneFinder and ZoneMapper are intuitive to use easy to teach
tone correction tools that are way ahead of other products. I also love
being able to have several different renderings of an image without
saving huge bitmap copies for each one."
“There’s no doubt that
LightZone is changing the rules of the game in photography,” said
Thomas Tworek, nature photographer and principal of Gold Coast
Galleries (www.goldcoastgalleries.com).
“Its simplicity, its photography metaphor design, its consistent color
and predictable results are all part of making my images better,
faster. And because it lets me experiment with my edits without having
to review the entire history of those edits, LightZone encourages me to
take chances without penalizing me.”
“Finally, we have an image
editing program designed for photographers,” said Brad Hinkel, an
experimental photographer and photography instructor (www.bradhinkel.com).
“LightZone provides tools for quickly and intuitively creating
excellent images. It uses a natural image editing workflow that is easy
to learn and fun to use.”
Integrated Solution Optimizes Photo Editing, Workflow and Output
LightZone
provides serious photographers with a tightly integrated editing
environment to help them make the most efficient use of their time
editing, correcting and printing their photographs.
Key features in LightZone include:
ZoneFinder.
Using patent-pending technology, ZoneFinder™ analyzes and displays an
image in shapes and tonal values, just as photographers pre-visualize
their prints.
ZoneMapper. ZoneMapper™ provides an easier
way to control and adjust the light and tonal values of an image.
ZoneMapper is the most powerful way to precisely remap tonal values for
color correction, to set the optimal points for highlights and shadows,
and to correct contrast.
RegionMapper. RegionMapper™
simplifies selecting even the most complicated regions of an image and
it expertly blends the effects of the tools and transformations with
the rest of the image. This simple technique provides extraordinarily
precise and accurate control of the area being edited.
StudioZone.
An innovative image viewer and file browser, StudioZone™ lets
photographers view, print and publish their photographs using a true
digital negative format. A powerful search function, with metadata
search, helps you find specific images in an instant. An integrated RAW
converter provides a seamless transition from camera media to LightZone.
True Non-Destructive Editing.
LightZone’s non-destructive image processing engine does not alter any
portion of the original image file, so photographers can modify or
delete changes at any point in their workflow. Transformations made to
the photograph are saved in a way that tells the application how to
display or print the modified photograph. Now photographers can create
multiple versions of an image without duplicating files or using up
large amounts of hard drive space.
Linear color space.
LightZone works in linear color space instead of a gamma-corrected
color space, allowing more precise calculations for consistent color
and predictable results on a display or on paper.
Pricing and Availability
LightZone is available for Windows and Mac OS X immediately at www.lightcrafts.com for $249.95 (U.S. Suggested List Price) as well as other software retail locations.
LightZone for Mac OS X can also be purchased at Apple Stores. Customers
also have the option of downloading a free 30-day trial version.
LightZone for Windows supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP. LightZone
for Mac OS X supports Mac OS X v.10.3.9 or later.
About Light Crafts, Inc.
Light
Crafts, based in Palo Alto, develops digital photo processing software
for professional and prosumer photographers. For more information,
visit www.lightcrafts.com
Light
Crafts, LightZone, StudioZone, ZoneFinder, ZoneMapper and RegionMapper
are trademarks of Light Crafts, Inc. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Company Contact
Dean Tucker
CEO and President
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650-331-1989
Media Contact
Mike Jackman
Jackman Communications
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415-388-3216
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