Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

To quote my 18 yo son it's "way cool".
Not only do you not have to spend a fortune on PS training; you already
have it because it speaks photography! Neither do you need a linguist to
assist with PS terminology.

It never, by default, saves onto the virgin image file which is a big
plus and every action is undoable. Brilliant!!

The other thing which impressed me about it was it handles RAW files:
specifically the DNG files of my Ricoh GX100. 

I had a lot pf poblems printing with it -- java blows up -- but that is
the fault in Sun's JRE so I installed the IBM one and bingo I can now
print if I want.

I have never considered actually buying software. THe only exception has
been Vuescan. LightZone I think will be the other exception to the rule.
There is one other which comes close too: the Bibble Labs
(bibblelabs.com) Professional Workflow Software. It works on Linux and
Windows too and is quote a bit cheaper than LZ but more ocmplicated. It
produces some great results too. It has a lite version of Noise Ninja in
it.

Whatever the technology the point is to enjoy!

Happy Australia Day!!

Drew

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:26 -0500, Mark Gilvey wrote:
> Hey that's a pretty cool program.
> 
> Mark
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> On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Drew Tait wrote:
> 
> > This is nto a plug for software but... I am a Linux user who has
> > stumbled across a peice of software called LightZone from
> > http://www.lightcrafts.com. It is written in Java and has versions for
> > Windoze Mac and Linux.
> >
> > Doing B&W conversions is the best I have experienced. When you  
> > click to
> > convert to B&W it shows a colour wheel and you just select the filter
> > that you want. Beautiful! It is by no means a replacement for CS2 or
> > Lightroom/Aperture but it has a place I think.
> >
> > D r e w
> >
> >
> > 
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