LightZone is a non-destructive open-source, professional-level digital darkroom software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, that includes RAW processing and editing. LightZone lets the user build up a stack of tools which can be rearranged, readjusted, turned off and on, and removed from the stack.
Lightzone has advanced features including:
- Ability to read RAW files for a variety of cameras and display the metadata (e.g. exposure, ISO, flash, etc.)
- Rating of images for one to five stars
- Batch processing of files
- Range of available style filters (e.g. Alien Infrared, Skin Glow, Polarizer, etc.)
- Non-destructive tools including relight, sharpen, gaussian blur, hue/saturation, color balance, white balance, black & white, noise reduction, clone, spot, red eyes
- Editing modes include crop, rotation, and region
- Raw tone curve modification
LightZone 4.1.7 Changelog
Bug Fixes
- JPEG quality setting was ignored when saving
- Expanded Grid overlay support to rotated crop window
- Updated DCRaw patch for SONY DSC-RX1RM2 for correct cropping
- macOS
- Crash on start because of missing libraries
- Mouse click on preview image to was ignored and could not enter edit mode
- Linux
- Fixed (some of) errors on JRE 9
Improvements
- Modified RangeSelector slider to clarify which slider thumb will move with mouse drag
- “Reset Setting?” dialog will timeout after five seconds
- Added new Raw Tone Curves
- PANASONIC: DMC-TZ100 (DMC-ZS100)
- SONY: ILCE-6300
- Updated application icons
- macOS (Mavericks or later)
- Oracle Java 8 runtime is included in .dmg packages, so Java 6 from Apple is not required now.
- Windows
- Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_102
Known Bugs
- macOS
- UI fonts are not anti-aliased
How to install LightZone 4.1.7 on Ubuntu 14.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/lightzone sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lightzone
