What's new in LightZone 5.0.0 Beta 2
Sep 27, 2023
- New Camera support:
- Note: Raw profiles for these cameras are not provided, so image contrast may be not optimal.
- Canon:
- .cr3 files (by LibRaw, #263)
- Fujifilm:
- GFX 100
- GFX100S
- GFX50S II
- GFX 50R
- HS22EXR
- HS33EXR
- HS35EXR
- X-A7
- X-E3
- X-E4
- X-PRO3
- X-S10
- X-T100
- X-T200
- X-T30
- X-T4
- X-T5
- X10
- X100V
- Nikon:
- D3500
- D780
- Z 5
- Z 50
- Z 6
- Z 7
- Z 9
- Z FC
- Leica:
- V-LUX5
- Olympus:
- E-M10 MARK III
- E-M10 MARK IIIS
- E-M10MARKIV
- E-M1MARKIII
- E-M1X
- E-PL10
- Panasonic:
- DC-FZ1000M2
- DC-FZ10002
- DC-G90
- DC-G100
- DC-G110
- DC-GH5M2
- DC-LX100M2
- DMC-GM1S
- DMC-ZS60
- DMC-TZ80
- DMC-TZ81
- DMC-TZ85
- Sony:
- DSC-RX0M2
- DSC-RX100M5A
- DSC-RX100M6
- DSC-RX100M7
- ILCE-1
- ILCE-3500
- ILCE-6001
- ILCE-6100
- ILCE-6300
- ILCE-6400
- ILCE-6500
- ILCE-6600
- ILCE-7C
- ILCE-7M4
- ILCE-7RM3A
- ILCE-7RM4
- ILCE-7RM4A
- ILCE-7RM5
- ILCE-7SM3
- ILCE-9M2
- Bug Fixes:
- Italian Help file is missing on Windows (#291)
- Fujifilm RAF files are not recognized (#298)
New in LightZone 5.0.0 Beta 1 (Jul 1, 2023)
- Changes & Improvements:
- Show thumnail/preview of Canon .cr3 raw files
- Note: This version cannot open/edit the .cr3 files, since migration to LibRaw (#270) is still ongoing.
- Modern Look & Feel with FlatLaf (#273)
- Bug Fixes:
- Faint white grid lines over exported images (#162, #288)
- Cannot build with JDK19/20 (related: #287)
New in LightZone 4.2.4 (Jun 18, 2022)
- Bug Fixes:
- UnsupportedOperationException in Red Eye Reduction (Aries85#259)
- v4.2.3 very slow with max system resource utilization (Aries85#258)
- Corrupted GUI (57cb1cb)
- Linux: "Couldn't link with platform-specific native libraries no linux in java.library.path" message on startup (4750b0b)
- macOS, Linux (Arch): Lens correction cause crash (4752e2f)
- Wrong HiDPI coordinate of "Select a folder" message in Browser mode (66d079e)
- Disable unusable update check (4eef962)
- Changes & Improvements:
- Show photoshop:Urgency metadata as color label (16887dd)
- Native support for Apple Silicon m1 machines
- Limit JVM max heap to 2GiB (6bd8b24)
- Add flip function in Editor (08bf5fa)
- Correct ZoneFinder highlight position when zoom-in (3f65bea)
- Show zone/value of a pixel under mouse pointer in Editor mode
- Show lines on Histogram (f4d8dfe)
- Highlight zone in ZoneFinder (beddbf5)
- Show zone on Histogram (d818b98)
New in LightZone 4.2.3 (Jul 5, 2021)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix 'lack of tile' artifact in Editor mode (d0e8b62, Aries85#255)
- Fix HiDPI coordinate bug in Clone tool and color dropper (5117af8, Aries85#256)
- Correct top-left control point behavior of Spot tool (4d7947b)
- Fix bug in batch config directory chooser (539d77b)
- Windows - Fix missing dll errors (#17)
- macOS - Use native Finder as a file chooser (dd20d95)
- Changes & Improvements:
- Support space key for pan-mode in Editor again (#18)
- Upgrade to SIMDe 0.7.0 (#16)
- Update Default Tone Curve list in Help
- macOS - Drop support old OS version
- Windows - Remove unused forkdaemon.exe
New in LightZone 4.2.2 (Apr 23, 2021)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed artifacts in Soft Light blend mode (a7cd8f3)
- Keep more free memory during batch operations (Aries85#253, Aries85#243, 0724bab)
- Improvements:
- Use SIMDe to speed up highlight recovery and bilateral filter. (fb753e3)
- Support Linux arm64 and armhf with neon SIMD, such as Raspberry Pi 2B, 3B, and 4B. (4367ff1)
New in LightZone 4.2.1 (Nov 25, 2020)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed block pattern noise on highlight
- Added missing library on macOS
- Improvements:
- UI language can be selected in Preference dialog (restart required)
New in LightZone 4.2.0 (Apr 5, 2020)
- New features:
- Lens Correction Tool - distortion / TCA correction using Lensfun
- Film Grain Tool
- Horizontal / Vertical Flip button
- Improvements:
- Better HiDPI support
- Speed up Bayer demosaicking code
- Renew some of button icons using jIconFont
- Speed up Editor rendering by reusing tile cache from different zoom level
- Migrated to Java 11
- Generate and include custom Java Runtime Environment bundle for Windows and macOS packages
- Bug fixes:
- Add missing dlls for Windows 32-bit build
New in LightZone 4.1.9 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Bug fixes:
- Random one pixel size errors, when converting a JPEG (#204)
- Crash caused by division-by-zero bug in CropBounds scaling (#210)
- No color profiles but sRGB available (#215)
- Support geotagged Olympus images (#219)
- Support Richo DNG makernotes (#217)
- Converted TIFFs lack some EXIF information (#223, #231)
- Some UTF-8 Characters not supported in metadata (#225)
- Saw tooth edges in Olympus E510 etc. (#229)
- Fix crash under JRE 11 (#232)
- Avoid huge memory usage on progressive JPEGs
- Improvements:
- Switch to Java 8 and replace old APIs; Disable build using jdk6
- Enable "Check for Update" menu again, using Refuel
- Add 40 new RAW Tone Curves (see 21773af)
New in LightZone 4.1.8 (7c31177) (Dec 27, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- File is lost if renaming failed
- Fix white stripes in UnSharpMaskOperation
- Do not block EDT while updating directories in FolderTree
- Wrong crop ratio after save/export (#204)
- Applying clone tool near from image edges results in black areas (#208)
- Improvements:
- Add Spanish Help files
- Show GPS metadata from EXIF on Metadata pane. Clicking the GPS metadata will open Google Maps in a web browser.
- Show more makernote metadata, especially lens names
- Support more Crop ratios (#199)
- Accept multiple files and folders as command line arguments or drag-and-drop onto LightZone icon
- Open recent file/folder in another frame when in Editor mode
- To release unused JVM memory, introduce G1 Garbage Collector. Both MinHeapFreeRatio and MaxHeapFreeRatio are set to 30.
- Do not show stack trace from BadImageMetadataException
- Append "_lzn" suffix for batch-processed images
- Windows - Support build on MSYS2
New in LightZone 4.1.7 (b44076e) (Jan 10, 2017)
- 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
- IMPROVEMENTS:
- Modified RangeSelector slider to clarify which slider thumb will move with mouse drag
- "Reset Setting?" dialog will timeout after five seconds
- Updated application icons
- Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_102
- Added new Raw Tone Curves:
- PANASONIC: DMC-TZ100 (DMC-ZS100)
- SONY: ILCE-6300
New in LightZone 4.1.6 (c0c5854) (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Append extension on exported file name.
- Show unknown aperture/shutter values as a question mark.
- Improvements:
- l10n - New Italian translation.
- Added 5 types of crop overlays (Rule of Third, Golden Triangles, Golden Ratio, Fibonacci Spiral, and Diagonal). Using mouse click in crop mode to toggle different overlays and space key to switch different orientations for golden triangle and Fibonacci spiral.
- Updated DCRaw to v9.27 (1.477).
- Added new Raw Tone Curves:
- CANON: EOS 80D, EOS M10, EOS-1D X MARK II, EOS REBEL T6, POWERSHOT G3 X, POWERSHOT G5 X, POWERSHOT G7 X MARK II , POWERSHOT G9 X, POWERSHOT SX60 HS.
- FUJIFILM: X70, X-PRO2, X-T10.
- NIKON: D5, D500, 1 J5.
- OLYMPUS: E-M10MARKII, E-M5MARKII, AIR-A01, PEN-F.
- PANASONIC: DMC-CM1, DMC-FZ300, DMC-G7, DMC-GX8.
- PENTAX: K-1, K-3 II.
- RICOH: GR II.
- SONY: ILCA-77M2, ILCE-7RM2, ILCE-7S, ILCE-7SM2, DSC-RX10M2, DSC-RX1RM2, DSC-RX100M4.
- Parallelized some of JAI OpImage functions. This will speed up opening an image for editor mode.
- Enable zoom buttons in Crop/Rotate modes.
- Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_92.
New in LightZone 4.1.5 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- ConcurrentModificationException and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on OpenJDK (#164).
- Correct focal length metadata calculation for Pentax cameras.
- Added jar files to fix missing laf-widget issue on Ubuntu Linux.
- Improvements:
- Updated Danish and Japanese translations.
- When a startup crash dialog appears, dispose splash window that can conceal the dialog.
- Recognize .iiq files from Phase One cameras as TIFF files.
New in LightZone 4.1.4 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- ToolStack dragging failure on Java8.
- Null pointer exceptions when getting icc color profiles.
- Strength of High Pass Filter tool was wrong when zoom scale was not 1:1.
- Improvements:
- ZoneFinder shows Zones at selected ZoneMapper now, without affected by subsequent tools.
- Set different icons for older ToneMapper tools.
- Enabled mouse wheel to choose a Blending Mode.
- Updated raw tone curve for Nikon D5300.
- Localized menus in installer dialog
- Updated bundeld JRE to 1.8.0_66
New in LightZone 4.1.3 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Metadata warnings in Olympus raw files.
- Improvements:
- Updated DCRaw to v9.26 (1.476).
- Added new Raw Tone Curves:
- Canon: EOS 5DS, EOS M3, EOS 750D (T6i), EOS 760D (T6s).
- Fujifilm: X-A2, X-E2 (Updated).
- Nikon: D5500, D7200, D3100 (Updated), D3200 (Updated).
- Olympus: TG-4.
- Pentax: K-S2.
- Samsung: NX500.
- Sony: ILCE-7 II.
- Added new "Effects;Negative" style.
- Get a lens name from EXIF metadata.
- Linux - Support CentOS 7.
New in LightZone 4.1.2 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Highlights were excluded when luminosity selection was set for highlights and set back to maximum.
- Color selection of a tool was not updated if modification occurred earlier in the tool stack.
- Windows - Limit max heap to 1024 MiB on 32 bit build.
- Improvements:
- Fixed a DCRaw vulnerability. See pull request #1.
- Replaced non-free color profiles with OpenICC ones.
- Use full-path to jvm.dll. The path will be logged in DocumentsLightZoneLightZone.log.
- Updated bundled JRE to 1.8.0_51.
New in LightZone 4.1.1 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Minimum right pane width was too narrow.
- LCMS library name conflicts with Java 8's LCMS library.
- Windows - Maximum value of Memory Limit slider in Preference shrinks over time.
New in LightZone 4.1.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- User Interface:
- You can now open an image via command line or drag & drop on LightZone shortcut icon.
- Photo Browser:
- You can now select multiple thumbnails with Ctrl-Shift-Click.
- Photo Editor:
- You can now zoom in/out with Ctrl-wheel, and move the zoomed image with Ctrl-drag.
- In Crop/Rotate mode, you can now rotate the image with mouse wheel, and change the rotation grid origin with a click.
- "Info" tab is now also available in Editor mode.
- AdvancedNoiseReduction is updated to V4.
- Upresolution is now possible when converting an edited image.
- Localization:
- UI messages are translated in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Help files are translated in Danish, Dutch, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Camera Support:
- Raw files from the following cameras are now supported:
- Canon: EOS 1D-X, EOS 6D, EOS 7D Mark II, EOS 70D, EOS 100D / SL1 / X7, EOS 700D / T5i / X7i, EOS 1200D / Rabel T5, Powershot G7 X, Powershot G12, Powershot G16, Powershot S120
- Epson: R-D1
- Fujifilm: Finepix S1, X-A1, X-E2, X-M1, X-T1, X20, X30, X100s, X100T, XQ1
- Leica: M9, X VARIO (TYP 107)
- Nikon: 1 AW1, 1 J3, 1 S1, 1 V2, 1 V3, Coolpix A, Coolpix P340, Coolpix P7800, D4S, D600, D810, D750, D800, D800E, D3300, D5300, D5200, D5500, D7100, D7200, DF
- Olympus: E-M10, E-M1, E-P3, E-P5, E-PL1S, E-PL2, E-PL3, E-PL7, E-PM1, STYLUS1, XZ-1, XZ-2
- Panasonic: DMC-FZ70, DMC-FZ200, DMC-FZ1000, DMC-G6, DMC-GF6, DMC-GM1, DMC-GX7, DMC-LF1, DMC-LX100
- Pentax: 645D, GR, K100D Super, K-3, K-5 II, K-5 IIs, K-50, K-500, Q7
- Samsung: EK-GN120, EX2F, NX1, NX10, NX20, NX200, NX300, NX1000, NX Mini
- Sony: A99, DSC-RX1R, DSC-RX10, DSC-RX100M2, DSC-RX100M3, DSLR-A230, DSLR-A290, DSLR-A380, DSLR-A500, DSLR-A580, ILCE-7, ILCE-7R, ILCE-3000, ILCE-5000, ILCE-5100, ILCE-6000, ILCE-QX1, SLT-A58 NEX-3, NEX-3N, NEX-5, NEX-5T, NEX-C3
- Raw processing is now multi-threaded with OpenMP.
New in LightZone 4.0.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- License Change:
- LightZone is now released as a free and open source software under New BSD License.
New in LightZone 3.8 (Sep 28, 2009)
- Raw files from the following cameras are now supported: Olympus E-P1.
New in LightZone 3.5 (May 16, 2008)
- Added Canon 1Ds MkIII RAW support
- Easy links to learning center
New in LightZone 3.0.6 (Jul 2, 2007)
- LightZone BASIC support - including "lite" access to the LightZone Digital Asset Manager
- New built-in Polarization Style, emulates a polarization filter
- Added support for Nikon D40X RAW
- Added support for Kodak P712 RAW
- Added support for Samsung GX10 RAW
- Improved
- Performance
- Improved Nikon D40 RAW support
- Improved Sony R1 RAW support
- Improved Fuji S5 RAW support
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed license key issues
- Fixed certain memory & thread leaks
- Fixed rotation on Olympus 8080 RAW
- Nikon D1X JPEG issues
New in LightZone 1.4 (Jun 29, 2006)
- Much improved handing of very large photos.
- Now exporting EXIF and IPTC metadata into TIFF files.
- Now supporting TIFF files having alpha channels.
- The Space-bar is now used to pan a zoomed-in photo.
- Export options are now remembered between exports.