Goodbye Lightzone

Hi,

i really enjoyed using Lightzone for Linux the last couple of months but
now it's time to switch. I started with Lightzone 2.1 retouching my
Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi photos and worked with LZ 2.4 recently.

After testing BibblePro for some days now i decided to go with Bibble
and say "thank you" to LightCrafts for their free product. I really
considered buying Lightzone 3.x for Linux if it had been released by
now. Since there are only rumours but no hard evidence that there will
even be a supported Linux version i'll go stick with BibblePro.

Some reasons why i prefer BibblePro over Lightzone for Linux (2.4):

 -No RAW-support for Canon EOS 40D - all images have a red tint
  -Replacing dcraw with a newer version results in "Unknown file format"
   (or something like this) message in Lightzone
  -That's the reason why i tried BibblePro in the first place, btw
 -Speed. Lightzone is a lame duck compared to BibblePro
  -This includes:
   -Saving (exporting is slow as in bibble) files
   -Browsing files
   -Open RAW files
 -Enforcing SSE2 with Lightzone 2.4
 -No real support for Linux

Some things i really enjoyed working with Lightzone for Linux:

 -Zonefinder
 -Regions

Maybe i'll give it a try if a new version gets released for linux.

Thanks for reading,
Marcel.

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