When comparing LightZone vs Photopea, the Slant community recommends Photopea for most people. In the question“What is the best photo editing software?” Photopea is ranked 7th while LightZone is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Photopea is:
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Allows users to create and edit RAW profiles
Unlike most other RAW editors, LightZone supports user-created RAW profiles and allows editing existing RAW profiles.
Pro Allows changing the order in which adjustments are applied
You can change in what order sharpening, saturation, tone, etc adjustments are applied simply by switching around their order in the tool stack.
Pro Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Pro Fast to load
Pro Very reactive on feedbacks
Pro Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
Pro Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
Pro Has many features
Pro Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
Pro Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
Cons
Con Asset management is basic
Browser module includes a file browser, metadata viewer and a really basic metadata editor (allows editing just 6 fields), and allows you to give images a rating, but no advanced asset management is supported. There's not even a way to assign keywords to files.
Con Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!
Con Has only basic filters and operations
