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  • Welcome to the new site. Here's a thread about the update where you can post your feedback, ask questions or spot those nasty bugs!

LightZone RT upgrade = LightZone Basic

Michael Fontana

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LightZone upgradet its RT = Retouch version (whithout the filebrowser) to 2.1, and it's called LightZone Basic, now. Just got the update today, by "Check for Update" in the help-menue, and here are my first impressions:

Some very good new features, as

- templates --> to save and apply edits on multiple images

- color balance tool, with the possibility to balance the shadows differently than the midtones, by using different "blend modes" (very good)

- a spot tool, for removing sensor dust, can be applied on multiple images by using the template function too (!!) It's position, size and feathering can be changed later, plus different blend modes....

New saving possibility

Several modes can be applied:

- Export: the edited file is exported, as a "flat" tiff or jpg, without any LightZone "annotations". (with LZW-compression, now =80 MB)

- Saving as tiff: the file is saved, with the LightZone's edits, in the ediiting menue. It can be reopend and shows the former edits in the editing menue. (95 MB)

- the edits can now be saved as a little xml-file, with a few KB. The exported tiff (not the saved) remains small. When reopening the closed tiff, in LZ again, it shows the edited image, but not the former edits, in the edititing menue. Very smart:: By dragging the lzn-file on the app's icon, the former edits appear in the menue, again. (In the mac's dock)

This is a good improvement, for several reasons: The files are much smaller than in the previous version, and one still can return and redo the initial edits, so this is Not destructive imaging, for the little price of a small xml-file!

On a first glance, the improvements are very nice! One might add the added eyedroppers, the threshold slider at the sharpening tool, etc
 
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