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I’ve been playing with Lightbox, a lightweight, multi-talented image editor. It’s a small download, about 10Mb, and it’s very quick and responsive. The interface and dialogs are a little quirky but all very usable. The Lightbox Basic version lets you work with 48 bit files, performs quick-and-easy photo touchups, opens RAW files, fixes colour casts as well as the usual print, crop and resize.
Lightbox Plus gives you history, snapshots, clone brush, dodge&burn, HSL and LAB colour modes, masking, blurring and sharpening. You can download the Plus version as a 30 day trial, purchase it for US$19.95 or just use the Basic version, nag free, forever.
LightBox is designed specifically for very high-quality image enhancement. It contains many state-of-the-art functions, breaking new ground with most core routines, written in machine-level code for realtime 48-bit editing control.
Tags: freeware, lightbox, lightbox+image+editor
About the Author:
Dan Ferris is the Red Ferret’s Oceanic correspondent and Associate Editor based in Sydney, Australia. Despite not knowing Russell Crowe or Nicole Kidman, Dan has risen above adversity and now scours the world for interesting tidbits to write about. He spends far too much time photographing stuff and tinkering with computers.
Dan – who has written 1169 posts on The Red Ferret Journal.
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