Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Anton Kast. Together with Fabio Riccardi and Paul Lucas, I helped write LightZone while employed as a software engineer at Light Crafts.

It's been a year since the last LightZone license was sold. Fabio, Paul and I have moved on to other things, and Light Crafts is no longer a going concern. But the irony of commercial software is that when the company which made an app goes away, the app itself can sometimes flourish.

This is my hope for LightZone. I have spoken with the rights holders, and they have consented to license the source code of LightZone to the world as open-source software. If you'd like to check out the code, you're welcome to it: https://github.com/AntonKast/LightZone

The code is still pretty raw. It's complicated to build. The licensing cruft remains. There is no documentation yet for the developer. But with luck and some hard work from you, the LightZone community, we have taken the first step towards continued support for the app, on all platforms, at no charge to the user.

If you can do any of the following things, you can contribute to this project: code in C or Java; try out new versions of the app on Mac, Windows, or Linux; translate the app into any language; or develop or test RAW support for any particular camera.

Interested? Write any time: anton@lightzoneproject.org