Irident Developer is a full featured photo editor available for only the Mac. Can someone familiar with both applications who perhaps does PP in a similar fashion suggest a specific workflow that might work well with this approach?
a workflow that yield a clean, relatively artifact free image but that still allows me to do most of my shadow, highlight, sharpening, etc. What I'm looking for is a way to get the best of both worlds: i.e. That said, there's a compelling body of evidence and examples here that clearly show Iridient Developer's ability to beautifully render fine detail without visible artifacting. The rest of my workflow is my default Lightroom CC workflow. I've been working with the Beta 1 version and my workflow is to do a bulk conversion of my images to DNG using Irident X-Transformer then use Lightroom CC to import the DNGs.
It's a RAF to DNG converter with some features. So, I'm not inclined to simply dump it and move wholesale to a different editor. I'm a longtime LR user and very much like the combination of sophisticated editing combined with great tools for managing a large collection of images. Hey guys, looking for some guidance and I'm going to guess that I'm not the only one hanging around the forum who might have the same question. Using Iridient Developer you cannot use Adobe's film simulation profiles when you return to Lightroom (as explained by Brian earlier in this thread because it does not export as a DNG), so if that's an issue you'd be wanting to apply the profiles supplied for use in Iridient instead (a quick one click operation, and they seem to work well). You'd enter the plug-in via the Edit In command, apply the sharpening etc that you want and then save back into LR to do everything else. Hi Jerry - there's no reason why you couldn't just use ID to do the detail/deconvolution stuff and use LR for the remainder of your workflow, using the steps I outlined above. Some specific thoughts and/or guidance on this would really be appreciated. I'm still struggling after reading these responses to see if this is possible or even makes sense. What I'm looking for is a way to gain the benefits of ID's deconvolution and/or other magic that nicely retains the detail but still do most of my editing within LR. I would still prefer to do most of my editing within LR, because I'm very familiar with it, I really like the workflow and really don't have any great desire to completely relearn all this with another package (OK, so I'm old, grumpy, and fixed in my ways. Jon, your approach may work fine but it's a bit different than what I'm really looking for. Thanks to everyone who's weighed in so far, and Brian in particular.
Perhaps worth downloading the trial version and having a go? I think you'll see a noticeable difference from LR. It's straightforward and has been much more reliable than some of the other plug in packages I've used (eg OnOne Effects which rarely opens properly on my first attempt). Save back into LR and sometimes make a few final tweaks (eg vignetting, or adding a border through other packages).
Edit In Iridient Developer (exposure, detail and noise, and 'film simulations' which you can also download from the Iridient website and appear to work well).Import images into my LR catalogue (which takes longer than it should with X Trans for some reason.sigh).
In summary, it was easy to set up and I now: