Who's using this application? Raise your hands and say what you like or hate about this program.
It has some appeal to me because it is a raw converter as well as an image editor...for some things.
Is it worth it?
Some say it is old dog slow, some say it is great and worth the smell of the old dog...
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I believe it's worth it. It offers a very intuitive approach to image editing.
There are some features that I would like to see incorporated though.
Love the ZoneMapper (offers the best control over tonality) and the selection tools with built-in feathering.
It isn't the fastest RC around. In that context I would like to add two quotes from LZ developer Fabio Riccardi posted on another forum:
"LightZone does very well with 650M with typical high-end DSLR images. If you need medium format resolution (20-40MPixels) you better assign 1GB to 1.5GB to LightZone. More than that doesn't really help."
"Performance issues are not due to Java, quite otherwise.
LightZone is the most complex and advanced image editor out there, you have no idea of the complexity of the imaging pipeline we built. If it wasn't for Java we would have never managed in the same time frame.
Maybe you noticed that LightZone is the only application that allows non destructive image editing with layers, masks and blending modes. The only other app with layers and masks has been developed over a time span of more than 20 years... and it is quite a bit clankier and destructive...
Light Crafts is a small company and we are constantly under the pressure of releasing new features that our customers ask for, we don't have the luxury of having a year long release cycle... QA is suffering a bit. Now that 2.0 shipped and most features we decided to implement are there, reliability is going to be our next big milestone.
Give us some time and LighZone will fly."
You'll find several workflow articles about LZ on Digital Outback Photo.