Light Crafts Upgrades LightZone and Announces QuarkAlliance Partnership

PALO ALTO, Calif. Aug. 20 -- Light Crafts, today announced immediate availability of an upgraded version supporting additional Raw capabilities for the award-winning LightZone photo-editing software. LightZone 3.6 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux incorporates extensive camera compatibility for 13 more camera models.

LightZone is one of the only multi-platform software applications that supports Raw photographs without the need to convert them. LightZone 3.6 offers new camera compatibility with Raw files from the Canon 450D, Canon 1000D, Fujifilm S100FS, Nikon D60, Nikon D700, Olympus E-420, Olympus E-520, Olympus SP-550UZ, Panasonic DMC-L10, Pentax K20D, Pentax K200D, Sony dSLR-A200, Sony dSLR-A350. Whether editing Raw photographs, JPEG, TIFF or DNG photos, LightZone is a complete digital image editing application in a single software package.

Pricing and Availability

LightZone is available in Full and Basic versions. The Full version is priced at .95 and the Basic version is set at .95. Both can be purchased at the Light Crafts' store. You can also download a fully functional demo at lightcrafts.com and watch tutorial videos for viewing key features in action.

QuarkAlliance Partnership

Light Crafts is pleased to join the QuarkAlliance Partner Program. QuarkAlliance is a network of businesses and individuals that have partnered with Quark to provide specialized service, support and solutions for the Quark community of users.

As a technology partner, Light Crafts is pleased to offer the Quark community, including the newly released QuarkXPress 8 users, a powerful, flexible tool solely dedicated for digital image editing, management and pre-print production. To view and learn more about the QuarkAlliance Partner program, please visit http://www.quarkalliance.com.