LightZone how-to articles and videos

A hodge-podge of articles and videos from around the Web. The common theme is "how to use LightZone." Most of them are rather old.

Articles

Light Crafts

• Tutorial PDFs (ZIP file) from Wayback Machine.
• Practice images for play (ZIP file) from Wayback Machine.

Digital Outback Photo

A number of articles about using LightZone appeared at Uwe Steinmueller's Digital Outback Photo site. These are fairly old, most of them dating back to LightZone 2 and the 2006-2007 timeframe. But they can still be interesting.

• Initial review of LightZone 1.2, LightZone 1.6 released
• LightZone 2.0 released, LightZone 2.3 released
• LightZone 2.4 with all new ToneMapper
• LightZone 3.0 released
• LightZone 3.1
• Using LightZone as a CS3 Pseudo Plugin
• B&W and Split Toning with LightZone 2.0
• Dodge & Burn Fine-tuning using LightZone
• Reader's Workflow Session
• Fun in the digital darkroom
• HDR with PhotoMatix and LightZone
• Selective Editing in Photoshop and LightZone
• Working with Lightroom and LightZone

Jacek Góźdź

Jacek put together a couple of PDFs, back around 2007.

• A short introduction to regions
• A short introduction to the Relight tool [note: applies to Polarizer, not to the current Relight tool]

Fabio Riccardi

Fabio posted some discussions about how he'd processed some photos. These date back to 2006. They're a bit light on details, though.

• LightZone Tutorial 1: Landscape
• LightZone Tutorial 2: Landscape
• LightZone Tutorial 3: Portrait
• LightZone Tutorial 4: Portrait

Martin Doonan

Not quite so dated, these are from 2008.

• ZoneMapper: a primer for curves users
• Digital files without so much sharpening
• Further sharpening techniques
• Getting the most out of regions

Craig Reynolds

These are from 2010, so almost certainly LZ 3.9.

• Beginner's tutorial - part I
• Beginner's tutorial - part II

Videos

Light Crafts

Light Crafts posted ten videos on YouTube in 2009; these appear to be for an early version of LightZone 3. Another video of unknown provenance appears to be of Light Crafts origin, but appears to be for LightZone 2.

drmauro82

This very short video dates back to 2007, but claims to be LZ 3.1.

Planet 5D

This one is from 2010, and appears to be LZ 3.9 running on Linux.