Lightzone

I broke down and bought some obscure software. One usually doesn't want to stray too far from the big boys in terms of digital image manipulation, but seeing the demo of Lightzone sold me. It's a much more intuitive way of adjusting and tweaking a file, Lightzone is a sign that things are going to change over the next few years. We don't have to use Photoshop's imposed metaphors to handle the process of tweaking an image. Download a demo, Mac is up, windows is to come, and try it out. Based on the Zone System, you could find it easier.


(Buying this software reminds me of the first time I was at the show, back in 1996. I bought Collage, a quick and easy way to throw around big image files and combine them, by proxy. It was ahead of it's time, had a cult following until the horsepower made it redundant and Adobe cribbed it's remaining features. I think Lightzone could be like that, you might see parts of it's UI show up in Photoshop)

UPDATE: Lightzone won a "Best of show" award at Macworld.