Once created, a style is easily applied to multiple images, allowing those standard camera compensations to be applied to every image before the photographer ever views or edits it. LightZone is a non-destructive RAW editor. It treats the digital image original (typically a RAW file) as precious and non-editable. When LightZone edits an original digital image, a new resulting post-edit image file is created (for example a new JPEG copy) and the original image file is left unaltered. By being non-destructive LightZone preserves the original "digital negative" which contains the maximum information originally captured by the camera, and allows additional images with different transformations to be produced from the original. LightZone outputs JPEG files which contain metadata references to the original image file location and a record of the transformations applied during editing.īecause the JPEG output files that LightZone creates contain the entire transformation history, edits can always be undone in a new edit session, long after they were saved. Indeed, the same transformations can be easily reordered and additional transformations applied subsequently to yield further image improvements. Additionally, since transformations always begin with the original RAW image rather than an intermediate JPEG version, JPEG compression related editing artifacts are avoided. On December 19, 2007, LightZone was awarded a MacWorld's 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Award.LightZone is a RAW converter and open source photo editor that resembles Lightroom and can be downloaded free of charge. Though there are some similarities with Adobe product, you still need to consider distinct differences. The biggest advantage of the program that I’d like to highlight in my LightZone review is non-destructive photo processing. In such a way, your original pictures are left intact, so you can return to them if such a necessity arises. The software first appears in 2005 and was advertised as a commercial program. Six years later, the developer company stopped upgrading and releasing the soft. ![]() However, in 2013, the program appeared again, but under a BSD open source license. The truth is that 2013-version is identical to that released in 2011 with upgraded RAW profiles being the only difference. In other words, the program acquired support for many DSLRs that have been released since 2011. LightZone has a clean and stylish user interface with a dark gray theme that you can also see in other popular image editing applications. Canon EOS 1D Mark III raw files are now supported.The UI is divided into two separate sections: the “Browse” window for navigating files and the “Edit” window for working with specific images. ![]() LightZone no longer uses LZN files and now always saves your work as either JPEG or TIFF files for maximum interoperability with other applications.The Raw Adjustments tool has a new As Shot button.There is now a History tab that shows you all the edits you have make to your photo since opening it for the current editing session. ![]()
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