I had a go, admittedly quick, at this application, Tim. I could not
get the hang of it in the short time that I tried manipulating a
photo. In addition, I found the interface unattractive and, clearly,
unintuitive. But I did not approach it in the manner you describe
and so I probably did not give it a fair chance.
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 10 Feb 2006, at 08:44, Tim Hughes wrote:
> For people who are old darkroom rats, the way this product appears
> to work, is really attractive. It claims the basic idea is based
> on traditional B&W zone sytem, but it is the way you can do things
> without complex masks, which looks so quick and appealing. It is
> much more like iterative dodging and burning where you can go back
> and tweak the dodging mask,it's feathering,change aparent light
> angle etc etc.
> http://www.lightcrafts.com/company/index.php
>
> A lot of their tools work with Luminance as a basic tool for
> identifying how to do many things. This keeps color balance issues
> more in the background as you tweak things. The teststrip view of
> luminance rather than a curves/histogram view emphasises this world
> view. Clearly, they are actually going to put the curves/histo
> into the product as well, since most Digi photographers are now
> used to using these and will miss them if totally unavailable. The
> zone view fits rather nicely with people who have used a darkroom
> spot enlarger photometer, with calibrated teststrips or have used
> an OM4 with multispot.
>
> Only the Mac OSX ver is currently shipping ($249) and there is
> also a Mac (30 day) trial version. They offered to send me an early
> trial version of the pc version when available in next few weeks,
> so I will probably try it out.
>
> I would be interested to hear other peoples comments on this
> product, if they try it, or have tried it.
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