LightZone on Digital Outback Photo
Uwe Steinmuller of Digital Outback Photo has posted a short preview of LightZone public beta 2.0.
Don't forget this is temporarily a free public beta download.
Here's a link to Uwe's longer review of LightZone 1.6.
Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON
Don't forget this is temporarily a free public beta download.
Here's a link to Uwe's longer review of LightZone 1.6.
Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON
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3 Comments:
Unfortunately I've found the Lightzone 2.0 Beta to be extremely slow and memory hungry (almost 600MB editing a 5D file on my machine!). I have to be determined to work with it :)
I feel extremely foolish that I can't seem to adjust contrast well. I know the ZoneMapper/Finder is great for that, but it's like the circuits in my brain aren't firing... I just can't get a good handle on them. Everytime I make an adjustment, the results seem worse than curves in PS.
I've found it to be somewhat slow and cumbersome on raw files from a camera with fewer megapixels. At one point I recieved an error messag indicating that a file could not be opened because the memory capacity had been exceeded. In general, zone mapper doesn't seem to work well for me on files with a great deal of dynamic range. Even as I bring out some the detail at one end of the range I lose it at the other. This can be dicey with curves as well but I feel like I have a little more control The latest beta of Adobe lightroom has a slider called recover (I think) which seems to work for bring back some of the detail in the highlights.
Yeah, it's definitely slow and cumbersome. something like 10 minutes to export/save a file on a decent machine.
it's frustrating feeling like a noob again (which I am again).
I know some of this seems cool but I can't get a handle on it.
i've had some amazing results but i'm not sure what happened to make them that way :p not sure i could do it again if i tried.
maybe if you or somebody else were to put up a few workflow posts.
this is what i have, this is what i want, this is what i do sort of thing.
thanks for the tip.
j
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