LightZone: Release Notes

# 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 after 4.0.0

Detailed change log is available on github release page.

## 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.