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# Ontdek LightZone

LightZone is baanbrekende foto verwerkingsprogramma om digitale foto's te verwerken en makkelijk en snel professionele resultaten te bereiken.

LightZone is ontworpen voor fotografen and verschilt fundamenteel van pixel verwerkings programma's die u dwingen om te denken in termen van beeldpunten (pixels) of u dwingen om complexe mathematische concepten te gebruiken zoals histogrammen en krommen. LightZone gebruikt een model dat is gebaseerd op de fysica van licht en methodes afgeleid van de decennia lange ervaringen van fotografen in het veld, achter de camera en in de donkere kamer.

## Sleutel eigenschappen

LightZone heeft een aantal sleutel eigenschappen dat het onderscheidt van andere foto verwerkingsprogramma's.

Stijlen

LightZone bevat kant-en-klare stijlen die u in veel gevallen in staat stellen om de aantrekkingskracht van uw foto's te verbeteren met een enkele klik.

Stijlen zijn slimme combinaties van gereedschappen van LightZone. Nadat u een stijl heeft geselecteerd, kunt u de individuele gereedschappen van de stijl verder aanpassen. You can also create your own styles for not only yourself, but share them with others.

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Herbelichten (Relight)
| The Relight tool allows you to "relight" all or parts of your photo as if the lighting were different when you took it. The Relight tool does this by reducing the large scale contrast and, at the same time, increasing the local contrast. This mimics the behavior of the human visual system and makes your photo more appealing and easier to work with. More on the Relight tool...

ZoneMapper

The ZoneMapper tool allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast of your photo for any combination of the highlights, midtones, or shadows in a way that is far more intuitive than using either "levels" or "curves" tools found in other applications.

The ZoneMapper tool shows 16 grayscale zones each differing by 50% brightness or half an f-stop from the next. The ZoneMapper is based on the Zone System invented by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.

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ZoneVinder
| The ZoneFinder shows a miniature version of your photo that has been segmented into 16 grayscale zones each differing by 50% brightness or half an f-stop from the next. The ZoneFinder allows you to see where the highlights, midtones, and shadows in your photo are in order to make adjustments using the ZoneMapper. Meer over ZoneVinder...

Vector-based regions and masks
| Using regions to create masks, you can restrict a tool's effect to just specific areas of your photo. Unlike other applications, LightZone allows you to draw (rather than paint) regions. Regions are therefore always editable. Additionally, every region has a feathering area that smoothly blends the region into the surrounding area preventing sharp edges. Meer over gebieden...

Linear color space
| LightZone always works in a 16-bit linear color space. Unlike a non-linear gamma-corrected color space, a linear color space doesn't introduce errors (such as increasing noise, edge distortion, and hue shifts) during enhancement operations such as sharpening, blurring, or saturation adjustments.

Direct raw file support
| LightZone can open and edit raw files as easily as TIFF or JPEG. Raw files from Canon, Epson, Fuji, Kodak, Leaf Valeo, Leica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Samsung, and Sony cameras are supported. Therefore, there is no need for an intermediate "raw conversion" step. Additionally, LightZone can open DNG files.

Non-destructive editing for all tools

LightZone organizes the tools used to edit your photo into a stack similarly to "layers" in other applications. Unlike other applications' layers, every tool becomes a layer in the tool stack. (For example, you create a sharpen tool as a layer rather than sharpening an existing layer.) This means that every tool is non-destructive and therefore can be modified or deleted at any time. More on the tool stack...

Simple (and small) workflow

LightZone's workflow consists of an original image file (be it JPEG, TIFF, or raw) obtained from a digital camera or scanner and an associated "LightZone JPEG" file that contains the tool stack you create. These two files are all you need to create beautiful photos. You can make stunning prints of your photos directly from LightZone.

Optionally, you can also convert your edited photos to TIFF files (for use in other applications).

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- New features
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