mahwar addlay wojtek
Xena Donovan
Im new to manjaro although being dealing with other linus distros more than 10 years. I really like it and just missed my prefered photo editing software, Lightzone. Found there is updated maintainned aur.archlinux Try to install it but Im not familiar with building this. Could anyone pls guide me to do it, step by step, like a I was a moron
I used lightzone for a long time and had the problem that a certain Java version was required as the system standard for lightzone, which led to a collision with some other java applications. May be that this problem has been resolved in the meantime. Since then, I have been using darktable without need java , in which, for example, the Ansel Adams zone mapper is also available. This is only mentioned here as an alternative in the event of problems.
Note: The Image Metadata Editor can only attach metadata to JPEG images, not PNG or PDFs. If you have a bunch of PNGs to submit then you can convert these to JPEGs using a bulk convertion tool as part of the Image Metadata Editor.
Install Java
The Image Metadata Editor is a Java FX application. You will need Java 7 or higher to be able to run it. Please, visit Oracle website to install a recent version of Java if you don't already have it installed.
Make a backup of your images
The Image Metadata Editor is very stable and reliable. But, as any other programs, it may happen to fail during its execution, which may lead to file corruption. Even if this is very unlikely, it's preferable to create a backup of your images before modifying their metadata.
Download the Image Metadata Editor tool
Save the Jar file to a convenient place to later run the application. The tool is easier to use when it's located in the same folder as the images. Copy the tool inside the folder containing the images. The tool does not need any installation. It should run directly if Java is installed.
If this option is not listed, you will have to install Java (Step 1).
NOTE: The Image Metadata Editor tool is safe to use. It does not install any files on your computer and does not share any personal information over the internet.
NOTE: Only JPEG images has support for EXIF metadata. If you wish to submit PNG or GIF images then the editor has a bulk conversion tool. See the section on converting PNG images below. For PDF, etc., please use the e-Atlas Image Submission Form.
Edit the images metadata
You can either edit the metadata of each images one by one, or export the metadata as a CSV file that you can edit using a spreadsheet editor. To edit the image metadata individually, simply double click a file from the list. Edit the metadata, and apply them to the image using the save button to the bottom right corner.
Edit all images metadata in bulk (CSV)
If you have many images to edit, exporting the metadata as CSV is probably a better idea. It may save you considerable time, especially if some metadata are the same for each images, like the photographer for example.
Choose a name for the file, using the "csv" extension. For example: "metadata.csv". Save the file in the same folder as the Image Metadata Editor tool. The location of the CSV file is important, it will determine the starting point for the file path of every images.
Open the CSV file using a spreadsheet editor such as Excel or LibreOffice
Double click the "csv" file saved in the previous step. It should open using your default spreadsheet editor.
If you do not already have a spreadsheet editor installed, you will need to install one. We suggest you to install LibreOffice, because it is free and easy to install.
LibreOffice official website
Once it's installed, open the CSV file using LibreOffice. Ensure that you only have "Comma" selected in the "Selector options".
Edit the metadata
Add the metadata in the spreadsheet. Each column has a description to which tells you what information expect. You can add columns if you desire, but don't reuse the existing column names. These extra columns can be used to bring in additional data that is used in spreadsheet formulas to generate the metadata for the photo. These extra columns are ignored by the Image Metadata Editor.
Edit the images metadata in a spreadcheet editor like Excel of LibreOffice. You may add new columns as long as the columns title stay unique and unchanged (first row) and the "Filename" stay first in the first column.
When you are done, same the file. If you have used spreadsheet formulas then save it as both a native spreadsheet file (.xls for example) then also save it as a CSV file. The spreadsheet file will remember the formulas and the CSV file is what is needed by the Image Metadata Editor.
Organise into Galleries
If you wish your photos to be organised into galleries on the eAtlas then please organise the photos into folders, each corresponding to a gallery. When you submit these files please provide a text description (a paragraph) to outline what the gallery contains. This text can simply be provided in the email to the eAtlas team.
Submit the photos to the eAtlas.
Now that the photos have been tagged with metadata they are ready to be submitted to the eAtlas. These can be sent to the eAtlas using email (if the total size is less than approximately 30MB), by using Dropbox or Cloudstor+. If you use the cloud storage options then simply share the files with e-a...@aims.gov.au.
Upon receiving the images the eAtlas team will check the metadata associated with the images to ensure that key attributes have been set, then they will upload each folder as a gallery in the system, associating the photos with the project that provided the images.
The example used in this document is very simple. Generaly, we tend to organise our images in folders, creating more complex structure. The Image Metadata Editor can also support those more complex structures.
To load a complex folder structure, simply drag and drop all folders in the Image Metadata Editor. The application will show a warning if you accidently select files that are not JPEG images, or if some folders contains files other than JPEG.
Since the Image Metadata Editor can only store the metadata in JPEGs we added a conversion tool that takes other file image types such as PNG and GIF and converts them to JPEGs. JPEG is a lossy file format that does not support transparency like PNG and GIFs and so the conversion is not lossless. As a result this conversion process may not be suitable for all types of imagery. If however the aim is to get PNG maps up on the eAtlas then this conversion will work just fine.
The eAtlas Image Metadata Editor application stores the metadata in the image itself using EXIF fields. This way the information will stay with the image as it is copied from computer to computer. The EXIF information can also be read from Windows and other photo applications.
OpenJDK is an Open Source version of Java. It's basically the same as Oracle Java, but it doesn't come with some of the extra packages and has a more open licence. Unfortunately, it does not come bundled with JavaFX, which is currently required by the ImageMetadataEditor tool. The library OpenJFX must be installed separately and added to the command line in order to work.
The following commands are for Ubuntu. Other Debian distributions should work the same way. Other linux distributions built on different bases should work in a very similar fashion; the command to install a package apt-get and the package names may differ.
LightZone is a free, open-source digital photo editor software application. It was originally developed as commercial software by the now-defunct Light Crafts. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow, including non-destructive editing when handling images in various RAW formats. LightZone outputs JPEG files which contain metadata references to the original image file location and a record of the transformations applied during editing. It is comparable to Adobe Lightroom.
In mid-September, 2011, the Light Crafts website went offline without notice. It was reported that Fabio Riccardi, founder of Light Crafts and the primary developer of LightZone, was now working as an Apple employee, as evidenced by his LinkedIn profile. The final version from Light Crafts was version 3.9, except for Mac OS X which had a bug-fix version 3.9.2. Ongoing LightZone support, including updates to let LightZone process Raw files from new camera models, was being provided by the volunteer LightZombie Project.
On 22 December 2012, the LightZombie domain was redirected to the new LightZoneProject.org site, and an announcement[3] was made by Anton Kast (one of the original authors of LightZone) that they had negotiated to release the original LightZone source as free software. This was hosted at (later moved to ).
In June 2013, new packages of LightZone were released for Linux, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows platforms. While effectively identical in terms of features to the previous proprietary version (v3.9.x) this release was cast as v4.0.0 to distinguish it as the first under the free BSD-3-Clause license.
LightZone edits both RAW and JPEG format images. LightZone 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.
LightZone is a non-destructive RAW editor. It treats the digital image original (typically a RAW file) as precious and non-editable. When LightZone edits 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 LightZone 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.
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