![]() And some people don’t like a grid at all. That’s one of the more popular choices, but I’ve been playing with 5×5 and can’t seem to change to that. The crop tool gives me a 3×3 grid while adjusting the cropping. Also it’s a bit weird that the range of the slider is from 8 to 64. The “depth” slider definitely does something, but I can’t figure out what, and the official name and description don’t help me much in finding it. Since I can hardly detect an effect from the one in the RAW Adjustments filter, I’m ignoring that one. Also there are two tools, a “color noise” slider in the “RAW Adjustments” filter, plus a “Noise Reduction” filter. Also I can’t tear it or the other panels off and put them on the secondary monitor, it doesn’t look like. Again, wasting screen space like this is very bad, there’s never enough screen space even with dual monitors one of which is 26″. I don’t seem to be able to get rid of the left column, which is tabbed between is styles list and a history tool. It seems to be fixated on putting the thumbnail strip (filmstrip) across the bottom of the screen, where it steals irreplaceable vertical space (which, since the advent of the “widescreen” monitor, is always the limiting factor in photo viewing size). The rating doesn’t appear on the editing screen, either. Looks like ratings are completely broken. When I set a rating via LightZone, it appears briefly over the thumbnail (sometimes tenths of a second, sometimes seconds), and then disappears again, not to reappear. It also doesn’t show in the metadata panel to the right. Hmmm also NEF files, which is inexcusable. It’s not picking up the existing ratings on my ORF files. I want to be able to click in the image and have that place me on the right zone (and similarly for tone curve).Īlso, I’d like a curves presentation option for this adjustment. Using the zone display at the top, picking a zone will highlight at low res where it is in the image, but that results in clumsy searching. There doesn’t seem to be a way to go from a point in the image to a zone. It’s also mated with the Zones info panel, and will show you where the zone you’re about to drag appears in the photo. So it’s equivalent to the standard curves tool, but gives you a different display to work with. ![]() This lets you mark points in the source value space and drag them to where they should be placed in the destination value space. ZoneMapper / RAW Tone Curve Raw Tone Curve The “orig” icon in the toolbar does seem to be a little faster in flicking back and forth, but only between the full stack and the original. Unchecking, for example, the raw processing filter, it flicks back to the previous state quite promptly. But when I then click it on again, it appears to perform the noise reduction again, complete with on-screen progress bar. Something much faster is needed flicking back and forth bewteen two versions of a photo is perhaps the most important performance metric in such a processor, since that’s the primary way of deciding if a setting is right. Ah, but switching from browsing to editing mode is slow. When I select a photo in the filmstrip, it appears in the editing window quite quickly. LightZone editor screen Specific Issues Responsiveness The “zonemapper” function, and the “relighting tool”, look particularly interesting. ![]() Regions/masks are all vector, though, you can’t enhance them with bitmap editing, which makes them not up to anything beyond the simplest masking (a bit beyond what an old-style split neutral density filter could handle, but only a bit). There is also a specific clone tool, and a red-eye fixer. LightZone has “regions and masks”, which can be applied to all tools, allowing you to do local adjustments. It also has the blending mode options available. Like DarkTable, LightZone is based on a set of modules that perform different functions, which can be stacked in any order (and instantiated multiple times). If I’m reading the history right, it was a failed commercial product released into the wild.
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