- LightZone
Infobox Software
name = LightZone
developer =Light Crafts
caption = Light Zone 2.1 under UbuntuLinux
latest_release_version = 3.6.1
operating_system =Mac OS X ,Windows XP andLinux
genre = Photo Post-Production
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/ Light Crafts, Inc.]LightZone is a digital
photo editor software application fromLight Crafts . Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats. It's comparable toAdobe 's Photoshop Lightroom.History
Versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available commercially. Although the Linux version was free of charge [cite web | url=http://www.linux.com/feature/60084 | title=LightZone for Linux delivers commercial quality photo conversion for free | publisher=
Linux.com | date=February 14 2007 | first=Nathan | last=Willis | accessdate=2007-12-31] in earlier versions, its price was adapted with the latest 3.5 release.Because camera makers introduce new RAW file formats frequently, LightZone is updated monthly or more often in order to continually support the newest cameras.
Features
LightZone edits both RAW and
JPEG format images.LightZone can create and apply pre-determined image transformations, called "styles", to an entire batch of images in a single operation. Using styles, photographers make and save their own preferred compensations for each RAW image based upon
camera specific characteristics. 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 newJPEG 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
meta data references to the original image file location and a record of the transformations applied during editing.Because 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 artefacts are avoided.
Awards
* On
December 19 2007 , LightZone was awarded aMacWorld 's 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Award. [cite web | url=http://www.macworld.com/article/131153-3/2007/12/eddyawards2007.html | title=The 23rd Annual Editors' Choice Awards | date=December 20 2007 | author="Macworld staff" | publisher=Macworld | accessdate=2007-12-31]References
External links
* [http://www.lightcrafts.com/products/ LightZone]
* [http://www.macworld.com/article/59212/2007/08/lightzone3.html Software Review of LightZone 3.0]
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