#Iridient developer review update
#Iridient developer review upgrade
#Iridient developer review plus

This may seem like a nerdy thing to do, but the new options added offer some nice fine control over the image, and you can actually really tell the difference. The new version also ads better highlight and shadow controls, a vibrance control and a clarity slider with various modes.Īnother one of the things that I really like in the new version is the option to fine tune the demosaicing algorithm. What this means in non-geeky terms is that adjusting the contrast no longer clips the blacks and the whites. One of the simplest, but most important changes is the re-working of the contrast slider to now work in an s-curve fashion rather than a linear fashion (although you can still select the linear mode). Still features all the low level colour management control of prior versions (and more), but now much easier to configure for the most common use cases.

Greatly simplified colour management setup and configuration.

Significant improvements have been made to many existing processing methods and controls as well including Brightness, Saturation, Contrast and Tone Curves.

Greatly improved preview window approximation of various 'Detail' processing stages (clarity, sharpening, noise reduction) when displaying at small scale sizes.

New dialog for copying/pasting settings subsets which makes choosing multiple adjustment options much easier than before when there was only a limited set of subsets available for selection by menu item.

Also adds the ability to organise the Settings popup menu by sub-folders for grouping commonly used presets together.

New support for saving presets (or settings subsets) to disk which makes applying only specific adjustments, such as only sharpening, to images much easier.

#Iridient developer review plus

Two new monochrome toning methods including Split Toning and Mono Tone plus many presets for common toning styles such as Sepia, Cyanotype, Platinum and more.Several options including direct access to low level RAW linear data as well as more perceptual, colour managed mixing styles. Several all new monochrome mixer conversion methods which can radically reduce noise and provide even better image detail especially when using strong red biased filter type presets.Depending on specific adjustments used and image content, the new noise reduction can also be up to twice as fast as the previous v2 methods. The new Luminance Grain Smoothness adjustment provides much better retention of overall image sharpness than the previous Luminance Smoothing method while being even more effective at reducing critical noise.

At high levels some colour smearing has been reduced while providing comparable or even better overall colour noise reduction than the previous v2 methods.

New noise reduction methods provide much better results when combined with some of the new sharpening methods, especially when using very strong sharpening.

This adjustment includes a number of variants for targeting different styles from a crisp, landscape type effect to softer, more portrait suited styles.

New Clarity adjustment for enhancing mid-tone contrast and reducing haze.

New options for adjusting overall tonality including an adaptive 'Fill Light' style exposure adjustment and pixel neighbourhood adaptive Highlights and Shadows adjustments.

Iridient Reveal in beta form has already been getting rave reviews and combines some of the best aspects of several of my previous methods including aspects of both traditional edge contrast enhancement techniques and deconvolution.

Two great new sharpening methods, Iridient Reveal and High Pass, have been added to the already highly regarded sharpening routines.

Multiple new RAW processing (demosaic) algorithms for both Bayer and X-Trans sensors from super high detail to smoother, lower artifact rendering styles plus monochrome specific RAW conversions.

But first, here’s a list of some of the new features from the official press release: This won’t be a complete in-depth review, but instead, I want to highlight some of the areas that I’ve found to be noteworthy. I’ve been using the various betas of version 3 for while, and there’s some things that I really like in this new release, which I’ll talk about shortly.

#Iridient developer review update

The update has addressed most of the (few) criticisms that I’ve had of the software in the past, and it now has a lot of functionality for processing images.

#Iridient developer review upgrade

Version 3 is a significant upgrade over version 2 and has a lot of new features in it. I’ve covered this software numerous times on the blog, in particular in relation to it’s ability to decode Fuji X-Trans files. Iridient digital has released a major upgrade to it’s Raw Processing software Iridient Developer.