However, you can disable this behaviour in the preferences.Īnother thing to watch out for is that if you had a develop preset set to be added on import the last time you imported images, it will be applied when you do this. Render the processed images back out to the same folder that they came from (it does this by default anyway) Then, in Lightroom, simply select the folder in the Library module, and right click and choose “Synchronise Folder…” This will pop open a dialog box asking you if you want t import the new images.īy default Lightroom will jump to the “Current Import” section of the Library, which can be a pain if you’re working on a whole set of images. Luckily, in lightroom that’s pretty easy. It doesn’t re-link files after you’ve processed them.
With this you can send the raw files of your selected images directly to a third party converter, in this case Iridient Developer It’s called “ Open Directly” and it’s created by John Beardsworth. Luckily there’s a great little plug in that allows you to open your Raw files in another raw converter. If you set up an external editor, it only sends a tiff or a photoshop file to the software of your choice. If you only want to send a couple of your images to Iridient Developer to edit then I think this is the easiest way to do it. I’ve come up with two workflows for making it as seamless as possible. (Again, click the image to view at the right size)Īnyway, moving on, if you want to use Iridient Developer, or any other third party software, but still use Lightroom as your main hub, then there are a few ways you can go about it. Also note the bush and the grass area below the trees, and how smudged this detail is in the Lightroom version. The result looks like the leaves in the lightroom version were painted on.
this time there is some foliage, and you can see the effect of this false detail on areas of repetitive patterns. On the other hand, if you have an issue with your X-Trans files and Lightroom, you don’t need me pointing it out because it’s probably already frustrating you. Of course, you don’t have to take my word for it, and if you’re perfectly happy with your Lightroom conversions, then that’s great. You may only see what is causing the problem when zoomed to 1:1 but all these artefacts add up, and even if you can’ make out exactly what it is, when I view these files on my 27” monitor, zoomed out (not at 1:1) I can still see that something isn’t quite right with the Lightroom version. Some people will inevitably argue that you can only see this while pixel peeping, but I don’t think that this strictly true. It’s hard to convey this with a small crop on a website, but when you’re looking at your image on a large monitor like I am, it’s pretty obvious. Here’s what I hope is clear example of this false detail effect that I’m talking about:
Iridient Developer on the other hand (and some other third party developers) doesn’t have this issue. However, no matter what you do, you may be able to reduce how noticeable it is, but you can’t get rid of the false detail that Lightroom is creating. It seems to be exacerbated by Lightroom’s sharpening algorithms, and that’s why I spent quite a bit of time trying to come up with those sharpening settings to try and mitigate the problem. When this occurs repetitively on fine textures, you end up with mushy detail. It looks like an additional line around objects, almost like an embossing or an outlining effect. The problem is that Lightroom seems to generates false detail around high contrast edges. It’s especially noticeable in areas of trees or other foliage, or other repetitive textures. However, despite an earlier fix which addressed the demosiacing of X-Trans files, Lightroom still has problems with fine textural detail. Actually, depending on your image you may not notice that much of a difference. In fact I was blown away by the quality.įirst of all, you may be wondering what advantages Iridient Developer gives over using Lightroom. I was expecting to be underwhelmed, but I wasn’t. I had mentioned in that post that I was also trying our Iridient Developer, which lots of people have been raving about recently for its ability to get good results with files from Fuji’s x series cameras. I recently posted some sharpening settings for Lightroom that I felt improved the quality of Lightroom’s weird processing of the fuji raw files. In my continual quest to get the best from my little Fuji XE-1, I’ve been trying lots of different options.
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