Worms start to be present in the middle with the default sharpening, and they are clearly here on the right image. When we cancel the Lightroom sharpening on the left, we get a very unsharp image.
All other parameters have the default value of Lightroom. In the Develop Module, the amount of detail is 0, 40 (default value) and 80.
Here is a foliage detail at 100% in Lightroom with 3 sharpening parameters. If an image I want to look sharp looks sharp, it’s ok for me… So let’s go further with our Xtrans III raws :-). So here they were…īefore digging into the subject, I must say I’m not a pixel peeper at all. But I did not have the case this winter with portraits, streetphotography and sports. I knew, one day, it would happen, I would have to investigate on this point. I then started to edit the raw files in Lightroom, and had a schock : I saw worms in my images. I went out several times with my Fuji X-T2 and its 55-200 lens, a tripod and had a great time in the forests of Meudon and Fontainebleau, in France, near Paris. Spring came out of nowhere 3 weeks ago, bringing with it small and tender leaves and flowers. You can avoid worms by masking out certain textures or by just having a generally softer photo.Worm effect in my leaves during post-processing, what can I do ? Fuji X-T2 Raw editing with Capture One, Luminar, On 1, Lightroom and Iridient X Transformer ? My experience… They're purely a result of sharpening, and they exist whether you use Lightroom, Irident or Photoshop sharpening or demosaicing. I've also done a ton of experimentation, and I disagree that the worms have anything to do with demosaicing. I'm going throught the same process and now turning everything off in x-transformer. I find Iridient's default setting oversharpen and are super "crunchy". I had been using “default settings”, whatever that entails, so apparently it is time to change settings. If someone can do better on different software, I'd very much like to see it.
RECOMMENDED IRIDIENT X TRANSFORMER SETTINGS ISO
The dpreview test shot from the X-T2 at ISO 12800. It really quite simple, not much extra work at all. Then I can finish editing and add sharpening and NR (different than what I would use in LR alone). In Lr, after I've gone through them, usually cropping and pre-editing as I go, I will select the keepers and just process those through X-Transformer, all the cropping and editing carry over into the DNGs. I always save the original RAFs (you never know what better processor might come along). The worms are not a product of LR sharpening, they are demosaiicing errors that are accentuated by sharpening. If you use it correctly, it works just fine with properly demosaiiced files. Do all your NR and sharpening in Lightroom, yes, I said Lightroom. I also let it handle the lens corrections, which is identical to LR. You want to just use for its superior demosaiicing algorithm. Set it for MORE DETAILED (actually doesn’t make much difference), Set the Iridient Sharpening and NR to NONE, it just changed with the last update, but it probably still sucks - it adds all sorts of ugly artifacts, particularly at high ISOs. I have done extensive experimentation with XT/Lightroom and have come to the same conclusions as some others who've been at this a while.