I quite often find myself cropping images. I am just a pixel peeper feeling the need to justify the big investment into expensive Fuji camera with expensive lens for ability to crop images without loss of quality. Left: X-transformer, right: LR Enhance detailsīut in the end I admit the result is never noticeable in reduced-size final version. Also the meshy texture in the church window is better resolved in 'Enhanced' version. I compared them at 100% but still, some watercolour artifacts are noticeable. LR sharpness and NR setting for X-Transformed file Then I tweaked sharpness in LR to try to match the 'Enhance Detail' version as much as possible: Thank you for the great tip with using X-transformer as a plugin. You are much better off using LR sharpening and NR. For best results with IXT, don't use the default settings, turn off (set to NONE) all the Iridient NR and sharpening, it can really make a mess of things, especially at high ISOs. You can use Iridient X-Transformer as a Lightroom plug-in and convert only selected files as needed - just like with Enhanced Details, easy and quick. Noise looks better in LR after Enhance details. I don't like how the noise in the Iridient photos looks. So I have to convert everything in Iridient, then import into LR. Because I cannot quickly and easily select which photos to convert, unlike in LR where I first import photos, then select ones to 'Enhance details'. Yes, Iridient X-transformer is much faster, with smaller files.

Iridient x transformer lightroom plugin