LightZone Release Notes

Note: The complete documentation for LightZone is integrated into the application. To access it, from within LightZone, select Help > LightZone Help. Mac OS X users can alternatively click here.

Changes for 4.0.0

• LightZone is open-source software released under BSD license
• Copy protection removed (Pavel Benak)
• A lot of fixes for building on all recent platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS) (Masahiro Kitagawa, Pavel Benak, Visa Jokelainen, Doug Pardee)
• Libraries upgrade - libjpeg replaced with libjpeg-turbo for faster JPEG loading and saving (Masahiro Kitagawa)
• dcraw updated to latest version (Doug Pardee)
• On Linux platform icons and desktop files were added (Andreas Rother)
• On Linux platform LightZone memory is allocated dynamically based on amount of RAM (Andreas Rother)
• On Linux platform LightZone is distributed as packages for distributions (Masahiro Kitagawa, Andreas Rother)
• Fixed luminance selection problem on Linux platform (Michael Schulze)
• Fixed program crash on Linux platform when loading RAW files (Masahiro Kitagawa)
• Fixed problem with saving files into directories with more than one byte characters in UTF-8 encoding (Pavel Benak, Doug Pardee)
• Fixed problem with saving files into directories with four byte UTF-8 characters (Masahiro Kitagawa)
• Fix for line artifacts on Linux platform (Masahiro Kitagawa)
• Fix for size of exported files (Masahiro Kitagawa)
• Translations added:
  • Japanese (Masahiro Kitagawa)
  • Spanish (Roberto Quintero)
• Added RAW tone curves for cameras from LightZombie project (Doug Pardee)
  New camera models supported:
  • CANON EOS 1100D
  • CANON EOS 5D MARK III
  • CANON EOS 600D
  • CANON EOS 60D
  • CANON EOS 650D
  • CANON EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
  • CANON EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSI
  • CANON EOS KISS DIGITAL X
  • CANON EOS KISS F
  • CANON EOS KISS X2
  • CANON EOS KISS X3
  • CANON EOS KISS X4
  • CANON EOS KISS X5
  • CANON EOS KISS X50
  • CANON EOS KISS X6I
  • CANON EOS M
  • CANON EOS REBEL T3
  • CANON EOS REBEL T3I
  • CANON EOS REBEL T4I
  • CANON POWERSHOT G1 X
  • CANON POWERSHOT G15
  • CANON POWERSHOT S100
  • CANON POWERSHOT S110
  • CANON POWERSHOT S95
  • CANON POWERSHOT SX50 HS
  • FUJIFILM FINEPIX X100
  • FUJIFILM X-E1
  • FUJIFILM X-PRO1
  • FUJIFILM X-S1
  • FUJIFILM X10
  • FUJIFILM XF1
  • NIKON 1 J1
  • NIKON 1 J2
  • NIKON 1 V1
  • NIKON D3100
  • NIKON D3200
  • NIKON D4
  • NIKON D5000
  • NIKON D5100
  • NIKON D7000
  • NIKON D800
  • OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP5.lzt
  • OLYMPUS IMAGING CORPM5.lzt
  • OLYMPUS IMAGING CORPPL5.lzt
  • OLYMPUS IMAGING CORPPM2.lzt
  • PANASONIC DMC-FZ150
  • PANASONIC DMC-G3
  • PANASONIC DMC-GF2
  • PANASONIC DMC-GF3
  • PANASONIC DMC-GX1
  • PANASONIC DMC-LX5
  • PENTAX K-5
  • PENTAX K-R
  • RICOH GXR A12
  • RICOH GXR MOUNT A12_VOIGTLANDER CS 35%2F5MM
  • RICOH GXR
  • SONY DSC-RX100
  • SONY NEX-5N
  • SONY NEX-5R
  • SONY NEX-6
  • SONY NEX-7
  • SONY NEX-F3
  • SONY SLT-A33
  • SONY SLT-A35
  • SONY SLT-A37
  • SONY SLT-A55V
  • SONY SLT-A57
  • SONY SLT-A65V
  • SONY SLT-A77V

Changes for 3.8.2

Fixes (Mac OS X only)

• Fixes for Snow Leopard.

Changes for 3.8

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Olympus E-P1

Changes for 3.7.1

Fixes (Mac OS X only)

• Updated eSellerate software for Safari 4.

Changes for 3.7

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EOS 50D, Canon Powershot G10, Nikon D3X, Nikon D90, Nikon D700, Olympus E-30, Olympus E-620, Panasonic DMC-LX3, Panasonic DMC-FZ28, Panasonic DMC-G1, Pentax K2000, Sony A300, Sony A900

Changes for 3.6.1

Fixes

• Fixed shrinking issue in batch processing when output size was specified.

Changes for 3.6

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Canon EOS 450D, Canon EOS 1000D, Fuji Finepix S100FS, Nikon D60, Nikon D700, Olympus E-420, Olympus E-520, Pentax K20D, Pentax K200D, Samsung GX20 Sony A200, Sony A350.

Changes for 3.5

New Features

• There's a new Help menu item that takes you to the Learning Center.

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, Panasonic DMC-L10.

Changes for 3.4

New Features

• Preview Styles by placing mouse over style.
• User interface enhancements.
• Improved stability in handling corrupt/incompatible image files.

Changes for 3.3 (Linux only)

New Features

• LightZone Linux is now supported.

Changes for 3.2

New Features (Mac OS X only)

• Mac OS X 1.5 Leopard is now supported.

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Canon Powershot G9, Leica V-Lux 1, Nikon D3, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, Panasonic DMC-FZ18, Sony Alpha DSLR-A700.

Changes for 3.1.1

Fixes (Mac OS X only)

• Updated eSellerate software for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Changes for 3.1

New Features

• You can now restrict every tools' effect to a range of color or luminosity.
• The Raw Adjustments tool now automatically removes "hot pixels" from your raw photos.
• Crop and Rotate have been improved.

Camera Support

• Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Olympus E-400, E-410, E-510; Ricoh Caplio GX100.

Changes for 3.0.6

Fixes (all platforms)

• Upgrading from pre-3.0 versions of LightZone Basic to 3.0.x LightZone Basic now works properly.
• A DNG image created from a Fuji raw image was not handled correctly. This has been fixed.

Fixes (Windows only)

• The font used in menus was too big. This has been fixed.

Changes for 3.0.5

New Features

• LightZone Basic is now available again.

Fixes

• Some Sony raw photo were opened with the wrong dimensions. This has been fixed.
• In some cases, you would get a Save dialog even though the Auto Save preference was enabled.

Camera Support

• Kodak P712, Nikon D40X, Olympus SP-550UZ, and Samsing GX10 raw files are now supported.

Other Changes

• If a photo is read-only, the ability to edit metadata is now disabled.

Changes for 3.0.2

Fixes

• Fixed oversaturated colors in the sharpening tool.

Changes for 3.0.1

New Features

• Adjusting the Exposure slider of the Raw Adjustments tool so that the value is negative performs highlight recovery.

Fixes

• Improved functioning of Relight tool.
• The Black & White and Color Balance tools have had minor corrections.
• In some cases, vibrant colors were overly saturated. This has been fixed.
• Editing of metadata works much better.
• Fixed generation of IPTC and XMP metadata for JPEG files that previously resulted in an incompatibility with Photoshop CS3.
• Fixed obtaining the artist information from CR2 files.
• A photo's rating is now properly stored when generating new TIFF files.
• Fixed obtaining the exposure-time/shutter-speed information from Canon raw files.
• Fixed reading of artist, copyright, caption, and rating metadata from DNG files.
• Styles now appear in the Import Styles dialog.
• The capture date/time from CRW files is now included when converting to JPEG.
• Now writing IPTC metadata in a more standards-conformant way using the Dublin Core XML schema.

Camera Support

• Fuji Finepix S5 Pro raw files are now supported.

Other Changes

• LightZone has always edited the full size image. LightZone now displays the dimensions of the full edit size and the version size separately.
• LightZone now goes to the "Discover LightZone" help page instead of the cover when first launched.
• You can now sort by file type in the browser.
• The Browser menu now includes Select Recent and Unselect All menu items.
• You can now use the Delete/Backspace key to delete a region while editing a region.
• When converting to JPEG, lens metadata is now preserved.

Changes for 3.0

Intelligent Tools

• The new Relight tool replaces the already "magical" ToneMapper: new controls allow for greater precision in relighting virtually any scene.
• The new History pane, gives users full and direct access to intermediate editing steps, all the way from first opening the photograph.
• Added support for RAW images from the latest dSLR cameras such as the Canon 1D Mark III.

Improved Learnability

• Styles automatically produce tools and guide new users through the interface process.
• New context-sensitive help and tool tips to assist users pre-flight and in-flight.
• Revamped user interface with distinct Browse and Edit modes, new skins to optimize clarity of the photograph, logical button groupings.

Improved Interoperability

• New default save mode: edit stack now embedded in JPEG. Provides seamless interoperability with any best-of-breed application.
• New Send and Convert capability provides advanced pre-processing capabilities to other applications in the photographic ecosystem.
• New drag and drop capabilities in Browse mode for folders, file-system or directly to other applications in the dock (on Mac).

New Integrated Batch Processing

• New ift Style in Browse mode and apply to multiple images at once.
• New Send and Convert capabilities convert your images for sending by e-mail, posting on a web gallery or simply convert in another file format.
• New drag & drop capabilities in Browse mode to folders, file-system or directly to other applications in the dock (on Mac).

New Asset Management Capabilities

• New Stack and Unstack hides and shows the intermediate edit versions of every photograph.
• New Smart Select button automatically selects the latest version of the photograph, so they can be post processed in batch within a single click
• New Metadata Editor allows for editing of Title, Copyright, Creator and other fields, a new preference for Copyright will automatically populate when specified.