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This is the tool bar from Lightzone 3.2
Those icons refere to (from left to right)
Zone Mapper
Basic tool for brightening/darkening (dodging/burning) or contrast control. In fact it is a different...
Lightzone uses it's own, linear, 16 bit, wide gamut (similar to ProPhoto) color space. It also supports color management (monitor profile is automatically detected and used) and soft proofing....
I've write a french tuto for the Black and White Tool. With a french friend, we would translate my post in english :-).
In this post there are many Style…
B&W Filter
After download the...
Open all tools that will be used. Give them nice names, set all values according to your needs. Then save the tool stack into style and select the option to use it as default for this camera. From...
If anybody needs to contact me personally, you can find my email at my website http://linuxphoto.org/contact.html
Lightzone Full is (guess what!) the full version with all available features, including a light-guage DAM, a full function browser, and the possibility to switch between the DAM and editor...
Right-clik on it and select "unlock” from the drop down menu to edit this tool.
There is no separate highlight recovery tool, it is combined with exposure compensation from the R tool. Use negative exposure compensation (darken the image) to trigger the highlight recovery.
Lightroom, Capture One, Bibble Pro and other RAW workflows are designed to „develop” RAW files and do some basic editing (denoising, sharpening, black & white conversion). They are fast,...
Oups, I destroy this page… :-(
Do all the edits to the image and click "save as”. This will create an LZN-JPEG or LZN-TIFF (depending on your preferences). This file is not the output file but a snapshot used to save your...
There is no need to import images into Lightzone, it does not create copies of your files or any database. Therefore users can simply copy photographs to any folder and Lightzone is ready to...
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Lightcrafts' home page
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great french tutorial
articles about regions and relight tool
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LZN-JPEGs and LZN-TIFFs are normal images, not degraded or attenuated ones. They are used as a tool stack container with a big preview. Therefore they usually have smaller resolutions to conserve...
Lightzone evolves and older tools are upgraded to new versions. You have access to the newest versions of all tools via the tool icons but the code for older tools is still in the program to ensure...
Lightzone Full has a browser that is able to rate images but does not have any kind of true database. There is no image importing and no tags. Clever users may use the star rating as tags (for...
Previews of RAW files looks different in browser than after opening in editor! Is it normal?
Well… yes it is. Previews of RAW files were created by the camera firmware and are embedded in RAW...
Forget about converting RAW files and then editing. Simply open a RAW as any other image. No need for any extra steps, saving to TIFF or using plugins. RAW data will be automatically demosaiced and...
Regions are a better version of masks known from other programs, and more analagous to the way dodging and burning was accomplished in a wet darkroom. They limit the effect of a tool to a specific...
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Users can save so called styles (before Lightzone 3 they were called templates) and use them whenever needed. There are also styles provided by Lightcrafts which you can use right away (and more...
Lightzone supports TIFFs (8 and 16 bit), JPEGs, and various RAW files. For complete list of supported cameras visit Lightcrafts homepage („supported” mean that Lightcrafts created default...
There are several tabs. In Browser mode Full version users have access to:
Folders
Click on "folders” tab on the left and you will have access to the file browser. Navigate to any folder you...
Users can easily change a tool's name (the one that is displayed on the tool stack). Just double click name of the tool (on the tool stack) and type in another one.
The Tool Stack is a very powerful feature. On top of it lies tool that was last applied, with previous tools arrayed below it, the very bottom tool being the first one applied to the original...
Basics
what is Lightzone
full vs. basic version
supported file formats
how does it compare
bits and colorspace
where is the log file
User interface
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RAW conversion
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This wiki was created to fill a big gap in Lightzones documentation. All Lightzone users are welcome to register and contribute.
Readers of this Wiki are advised that it is not an official...
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A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
Lightzone is a photo editor created with photographers rather than computer graphics artists in mind. It is not a wet darkroom simulator but it does refer to Ansel Adams' and Fred Archer's zone...
If there are any problems you should contact Lightcrafts support (find the right email or request form on Lightcrafts webpage). Usually they ask for a log file and your operating system and...
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