worms.Īlways remembering that such smallest detail will perhaps be invisible in a sensibly sized print watched from the correct distance. And the color smoothening in light patterns that creates the "watercolouring" effect is unavoidable if you compare the concrete in your image, Iridient is fine where Adobe makes. Nice try, but those values will give a strong halo around dark details with light background (branches vs light sky for example). I now need to fine tune noise reduction because I have difficulty in matching (or improving) on the default Fuji jpeg NR. With the whole process being non-destructive one can really yank the sliders around to see the effect of ding, and in the process you begin to see what works and what doesn't. What works well sometimes is to START with these settings, and then to use the sliders to back down the values instead of starting low and increasing the values. I also did not have much success with the recommended LR settings for X-trans, and after much experimentation got to pretty much the same conclusion as you did, except I have the sharpening amount usually around 45. Look at the files at 100% to see the differences! Of course, you'll have to modify the values slightly depending on the exact nature of the scene, but keep your radius high to basically counteract Lightroom's tendency to bleed highlight and color. These settings work with a variety of files and look great. The right side of the image is Iridient, sharpened to taste (before I did the LR version) and exported as a TIFF before working on it with LR and PS for the crops. The middle of the image is LR using Sharpening 50, Radius 2.0, Detail 75, Masking 0 and color NR 5 (though I could probably lower to detail 50) The left 1/3 of the sample is Lightroom using sharpening defaults. What follows is the overall test scene (downscaled) followed by 4 samples. So, I did what I normally never do - I used a moderate sharpening amount, a large radius, and a moderate-to-high detail amount and wow.the results are very close. It seems to "bleed" highlight and/or sometimes color information into adjacent pixels, and I wondered what a high sharpening radius would do. Instead, I thought about what Lightroom seems to do. I say screw conventional wisdom because I could never really get awesome results with that approach. Now, conventional wisdom says to use a low sharpening value, a low radius, and a high detail value. I no longer believe I need Iridient at all.
I believe I've definitely "cracked the code" when it comes to LR and Xtrans files, at least the 16MP files. Some of you may remember my earlier thread detailing (haha, a pun) how I was attempting to get close to Iridient quality (arguably the highest image quality Xtrans converter) using Lightroom.