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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