You should also check out my other Photography Project: The Streets of Dublin. I also have a YouTube channel that you might like. If you like this post then you can see more of my work on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. As well as helping keep this blog going with even more useful news, tips, tutorials and more, members also get special Patreon only perks. If you like what I do here and find the information useful, then you can help by supporting me on Patreon. So, to get around this, I converted it into a custom profile. Pure HSL adjustments aren’t very useful if you want to use this as a template, because you may want to use them with presets or something that will also use the HSL tool. It does its calibrations by using the HSL adjustments. You can send the image straight from Lightroom, and it will send back a Lightroom preset. Calibration in the software only takes a second. I should point out that this isn’t really the proper way to use this, but it’s something that I wanted to try anyway. To do this, I shot the Spyderchecker in daylight and used the supplied software to calibrate the target. As Datacolor were kind enough to send me their Spyder X Studio package to try and to review, I thought I would see if I could use the Spyderchecker to create a better profile. In the past I’ve crated custom corrections by manually adjusting the calibrations by eye. In particular, I’ve covered the A6000 many times, as it is a camera that I own and use regularly. Lightroom appears to handle DNG format files having a “tif” extension just fine and there is no option with External Editing to use DNG or other RAW formats.Long time readers will know that I’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about and coming up with solutions to the problem with Adobe’s calibration of Sony raw files. The DNG image format is based upon the existing TIFF file format and DNG files share much of their core formatting and metadata with TIFF. Despite the image file extension in Lightroom being “tif” the image format will now indeed be DNG. Once the conversion completes in Iridient X-Transformer, the image will immediately update in Lightroom to reflect the newly processed image. Do you want to process the RAF and overwrite this TIFF with the converted DNG?”Ħ – Click the “Yes” button in the Iridient X-Transformer dialog to convert the image to DNG. Again the actual option here has no impact beyond the intermediate file save time and no compression should be fastest here.ĩ – From the Preset popup menu (back at the top of the section) choose “Save Current Settings as New Preset…” and give it a sensible name like “X-Transformer”.ġ0 – Click the “OK” button to save and close the Preferences dialog.Īt this point you should see something like this.Ĥ – Choose “Edit In -> X-Transformer” from the Photo menu or the image contextual menu (shown by secondary clicking image).ĥ – Once Lightroom completes its own processing and has sent the intermediate TIFF file over to Iridient X-Transformer, you should see a dialog that says, “An associated RAF was found for this TIFF image. Simply leave as is.Ĩ – In the Compression popup menu choose “None”. Choose 8 bits to speed file save time.ħ – The Resolution setting does not matter at all. No need to worry about the actual bit depth here as the intermediate file will simply be overwritten. My guess is you won’t notice a notable difference in speed regardless of option selected here.Ħ – In the Bit Depth popup menu select “8 bits/component”. Lightroom internally is based on a color space similar to “ProPhoto RGB” so perhaps that option may require a bit less processing time on export, but I have not investigated whether this has any notable impact at all. No need to worrry about sRGB not covering the full RAW color range as the color space choice here will have no impact on the converted DNG image produced by X-Transformer. The program will typically be located in the folder at “C:\Program Files\Iridient Digital\Iridient X-Transformer”.Ĥ – In the File Format popup menu select “TIFF”.ĥ – The Color Space popup menu option does not matter. Here are the steps in Lightroom to setup “External Editing”:ġ – Choose “Preferences…” from the Edit menu (or key combo Ctrl+comma).Ģ – In the Preferences dialog select the “External Editing” tab pane.ģ – In the “Additional External Editor” section click the “Choose” button to the right of the Application text and select “Iridient X-Transformer.exe”. What I should do next time (Read The Frigging Manual) According to the help file (included in the install file where IXT is located) it says:
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