The LightZone Photography software is a digital photo editor software application. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats. It is comparable to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The software can edit both RAW and JPEG format images. You 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. Use the software as a non-destructive RAW editor. It treats the digital image original (typically a RAW file) as precious and non-editable. When editing an original digital image, a new resulting post-edit image file is created (for example a new JPEG copy) and the original image file is left unaltered. By being non-destructive the software 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. The software outputs JPEG files which contain metadata references to the original image file location and a record of the transformations applied during editing. The software stores and creates an entire transformation history of all the edits completed. This means all actions 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 artifacts are avoided.

Product Features

• Edits both RAW and JPEG format images.
• 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.
• Outputs JPEG files which contain metadata references to the original image file location and a record of the transformations applied during editing.
• 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.