LightZone VS RawTherapee

LightZone is still very much being maintained - albeit by one developer.

There's an effort underway to recover the original web site, but the domain name owner disappeared a while ago, which complicated things.

Agreed on the paradigms around stacking / ordering & non-destructive workflows used in Lightzone. It's my preferred photo touching-up software for similar reasons.

https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone

My original post can be found here on GitHub.

LightZone

Once you're on that page > https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone/releases/tag/4.2.4 scroll down the page

Also consider lightzone. Their website is down, but it's actively maintained on GitHub. Open source re-release of the first software to do nondestructive editing.

Gimp is powerful. But because its edits are destructive, it's not a tool I choose to use anymore. I was using LightZone but switched to DT because of the light table.

LightZone is a medium-level program that's fairly intuitive, and can achieve some nice results with presets. Website is down, but the github repo is still active the last release was less than two weeks ago.

Personally, I'm planning to convert LightZone from Java to Kotlin, but haven't started yet. It uses old Java Advanced Imaging inside, and Eclipse ImageN is compatible with JAI, so I think that to create Kotlin wrapper/extension functions for Imagen is the best way to go.

Lightroom - RawTherapee

I haven't used either of these personally but darktable and Raw Therapee are two open-source options that seem to get recommended a lot.

Some closing links to edit images, just because I dislike Adobe as a company :P. https://krita.org/en/ - a great and free image editing tool, focused on painting but very much funtional in many ways you would also find in Photoshop. https://www.photopea.com/ - an online alternative of Photoshop. https://www.darktable.org/ - A free lightroom alternative to edit raw photos with. http://rawtherapee.com/ - Dito for more platforms

Google searching found some interesting links like this idea at https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee/issues/3537 to make the background & foreground both transparent - hehe, if you can't beat em, join 'em:-P. But that might disable the HP values tooltip up in enemies, unless that's literally a different type (it does look like a "reference" one). u/voiddp are you interested in somehow fixing this one site-wide, for all tabbed content, or at least more commonly outside this table? https://community.fandom.com/f/p/3303954997837826425 for instance mentions a fix that they implemented, though not submitted to the developer for some reason (changing the style of the div class advanced-tooltip to be display:inline-block).

RawTherapee is a free raw processor.

Is GIMP not an option? Raw Therapee? Darktable?

Darktable and RawTherapee for editing raw photos.