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.
HARACKTERISTICS OF IRIDIENT DEVELOPER 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.
HARACKTERISTICS OF IRIDIENT DEVELOPER 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.