(E.g., even though they are demosaiced "linear DNGs," they are still scene-referred.) I think that's what I'm getting with the X-Transformer product, but I need to do more testing.įrom Brian's email on the new version of X-Transformer: The ideal output file from my perspective would be similar to the DNGs that Lightroom's Photo Merge tools emit: for many purposes, including color balance, you can treat them as raw files. I like the way the Iridient pipeline handles fine detail, but other than that I prefer to use Lightroom's controls.
The tricky part of using any third-party raw conversion tool as part of a Lightroom workflow, it seems to me, is deciding how to strike a balance between using the external product's processing capabilities and Lightroom's. But as far as I can determine, after admittedly limited testing, the demosaiced file is basically what you would expect. I've found what I believe to be a minor bug (visually annoying but not functionally pathological) in the entries that are inserted into the develop history by X-Transformer when it is invoked from Lightroom, and reported it today to Brian Griffith, the author of the Iridient software.
Isn't this essentially the same as what you need to do whenever you configure any third-party application to work as a Lightroom external editor? It looked that way to me.