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Aurora_Comparisons4 *    Aurora is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that suggests the improvements you see in the pop-up image selector. It’s as easy as clicking on the improved image you like best.

 

Screenshot of Aurora - Relight Edit*    The unique Relight feature is like turning on a light bulb inside your photograph. Aurora can detect where your photograph  needs more light, and where it doesn’t, and it will naturally relight your image. (You can see in the attached before-and-after image that shows how you can transform an image where half of someone’s face is in a shadow).

*    When you save your edited image, you are NOT saving over the original. Aurora is non-destructive. It will save your edited file with the same name as the original plus an “_au” at the end of the file name so you know which is the edited version. This is a nice feature so that you can keep your originals for future editing (or other needs).

*    Log in to Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug or other social media accounts from within Aurora. That will sync Aurora to your social media account and then enable you to edit photos you have on Flickr in Aurora, automatically updating the version on Flickr. Pretty cool!

There was a very positive review on Imaging Resource which is a website for amateur photographers.

"Aurora is the answer for intuitive photo editing," said Tracey Clark, photographer (www.traceyclark.com), mom and founder of ShutterSisters.com. "I love its unique way of presenting editing options. In my experience using the software, Aurora makes it easy for anyone to improve and beautifully enhance their images."

About Light Crafts, Inc.

Light Crafts, Inc. is a company that believes everyone’s photos should look great and that getting them to look that way should be simple. Light Crafts’ patent-pending image processing technology powers Aurora, the powerfully simple photo editing, organizing and sharing software, and the award-winning LightZone(TM) digital image editing application suite. Light Crafts was founded in 2004 by Fabio Riccardi. The company is privately-funded and based in Palo Alto, California. For more information about Light Crafts and Aurora, please visit www.lightcrafts.com.

My Opinion on Aurora

The software is made by Light Crafts downloaded and stalled with no problems. Then when I opened it it took a long time before I could do anything. I know it was because it actually indexed all of my photos and we have tons, we’ve been completely digital since the birth of my daughter and take 1,000s of pictures.

I was a bit impatient and tried to do some editing before it was done and it crashed on me. However, when I opened it again it worked just fine. This software is not something that I would purchase and that’s because we already own Photoshop.

However, I like it and will recommend it because it is cheaper than Photoshop and it indexes your photos(organizes), you can easily add comments and tags to your photos. You can edit the photos and it doesn’t copy over your original photo. I am happy to have a copy of it now.

It has limitations in what it does, you can’t add graphics or make it look like Kim Anderson art. You can just make adjustments, sepia, black and white and the aurora setting is pretty cool. The enhancements are much better than what you can do with the on-line places.

Best of all is automatically uploading the photos from within the program.

Aurora’s powerfully simple solution not only edits
photos, but it has sophisticated tools to help organize
photos; online back-up services to help keep photos
safe; and Aurora makes sharing photos easy with photo
publishing tools and photo sharing capabilities with
sites like Flickr and Facebook.
Aurora believes that everyone’s photos should look
great, and that getting them to look that way should be
simple.
Aurora is available to download & buy online for
$19.95
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Win it:

I have ten copies to give away. Visit Lights Crafts and tell me what you learn on the site.

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  8. I learned LightZone Styles uses our patented image analysis features to treat every photograph uniquely. Styles are intelligent instructions that take into account the unique attributes of every individual photograph (even when applied in batch mode).

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  17. I learned that you can Buy it now at a low introductory price of $19.95,
    or download a free trial for 7-days.

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  18. I learned that Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval.

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  25. “Aurora helps keep your photos safe with our optional Aurora Online Backup service by Amazon.com…for less than $5/month” -thanks!

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  30. Aurora is the powerfully simple visual photo editing, organizing, sharing and storing software
    that brings out the best in your photos

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  32. Just what I’m looking for for my family research and copying and fixing boxes of very old family photos to share with the rest of my family.

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  33. This is great! With the Aurora software you can go from the download directly to 9 easy controls! Wow, I think even I could do this. 🙂

    Thank you. 🙂

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  39. I didn’t know this existed. That I can photoshop simple visual photo editing to bring out the best in my pictures. I have pictures of my daughter in her baptism gown that I would love to bring light to. I was so disappointed in how they turned out. And our pictures from our vacation to the Outerbanks. My pictures just didn’t capture the sky and the water colors. I need this. Very interesting information on this site. Thanks so much!! Blessings

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  41. i learned that At the heart of Aurora is the powerful, intuitive, visual photo editor with its pop-up image selector that lets you pick exactly how your edited photos might look simply by clicking on the desired improved image.thanks

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  44. The gallery pictures on their website were an amazing example of what this program could do for my picture taking “skills.” 🙂 neat product!

    ropeswing77 at yahoo dot com

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  63. Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites

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  70. I found that Aurora will simplify the complexities of editing, organizing, sharing and storing digital photos,and that’s nice. Alan

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  85. i learned Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval.

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  86. I learned that Aurora allows you to import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval.

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  87. This software is amazing! I can tag my photos, edit them, back them up online, and it doesnt copy over my original! If I dont win this I will buy it. I have nine grandchildren, and zillions of photos – I need a program like this!

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  91. The premiere tool of LightZone is called “Relight.” With the relight tool you can automatically enhance an image with just one click—it is like turning on a light on inside your photo.

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  100. To celebrate the launch of Aurora, we’re offering the powerfully simple photo editing, organizing, storing and sharing software for only $19.95 (that’s 50% off the regular price).

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  102. I learned that Aurora helps keep my photos safe with their optional Aurora Online Backup service by Amazon(dot)com. Please accept my entry. Thank you.

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  106. learned that it will re-light my pictures, important because all my shots come out so dark

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  108. I learned that they are on Twitter. I can go on there and get some insights into how to improve my photos.

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  113. I like that when you change your photo it doesn’t make changes to your original. That way you can play around but still have the original photo intact.

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  115. I like that you can rate the photos based on favorites. I have so many photos on my computer that it takes forever to go through them and find what I’m looking for. This would really make life easier.

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  118. I learned that Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-arrange and re-name them, then tag and rate favorites for easy viewing and retrieval. Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  119. As one who requires simple, easy, and virtually foolproof software, this program was made for me! :

    I learned (yay!) that Aurora allows you to easily import photos from your camera or computer, re-name and re-arrange them, and then tag and rate all of your favorites for fast and easy viewing and retrieval. Now THAT’s my kind of program!

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  122. I learned about the Relight tool and think it would be great and really helpful for some of my pictures!

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  124. Light Crafts was founded in 2004 by Fabio Riccardi. PhD. who holds degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He’s an entrepreneur who has started two companies, and a physicist who has worked at CERN in Geneva Switzerland.

    This is what I learned.

    madamerkf at aol dot com

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  125. You can sign up for their optional Aurora Online Backup via Amazon.com for less than $5 a month

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  129. I learned it fixes a lot of “light” problems problems, lightens dark photos, corrects the “warmth” of a photo. I have some pics with a yellowish tint that I think it would fix

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  152. This looks so cool, I learned that they have an online backup service with Amazon. I love that it helps organize photos, mine are all over the place on my computer! Thanks for the chance!

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  157. This is great! With the Aurora software you can go from the download directly to 9 easy controls. How cool is that.

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  158. Aurora allows you to email, print, and connect directly to your favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora. We make it easy to share select photos online on sites like Flickr, SmugMug, Picasa and Facebook.

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  161. Their help section is quite extensive, which is great. I learned that Aurora supports all cameras that are capable of creating JPEG files (which is basically every camera).

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  164. i loved their gallery.It really helps to know how a picture can be transformed. thanks for the awesome giveaway.

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  166. I learned that they have a free trial download and I bookmarked the site for future reference.

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  173. I learned that they used algorithms, and spent years studying how the human eye sees things—all to make Aurora work to reflect what you saw in real life when you took that photo

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  177. I learned that Aurora’s pop-up image selector lets you see your photos edited in a range of different ways so you can choose exactly how you want your photo to look.

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  184. Having given up on ever learning a photo editing program, Aurora gives me hope. The word “intuitive” got me – never seen that associated with any other program. Could be a productive summer…should I be a lucky winner!

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  186. Aurora supports all cameras that are capable of creating JPEG files. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!

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  187. Aurora’s pop-up image selector lets you see your photos edited in a range of different ways.

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  188. Aurora–The pop-up image selector that lets you pick exactly how your edited photos might look simply by clicking on the desired improved image.

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  193. they spent years studying how the human eye processes images and built Aurora to mimic that ability so that edited photos reflect the actual memory you captured

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  197. Aurora allows you to email, print, and connect directly to your favorite photo sharing, social networking and accounts from within Aurora.

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