Fujifilm X-T2 Processing challenge

[Frank Fremerey]

I love the painterly quality of the noise reduction applied of the BG yellow rocks very much, MFloyd! In some developments shown here the mountais in the back appear just like a featureless blur of grey sand.

General remark: As "camera shake reduction" in Photoshop makes the image mich better in many parts I guess there might be some camera shake present. Focussing point? I guess the roof in the middle right?

[Mike G]

To my eyes the M Floyd Lr version looks the best!

[stenrasmussen]

Sten where is this image focused?

On the streetlamp to the left.

[MFloyd]

Thank you Frank and Mike 😊 Too kind. I tried some traditional sharpening through Ps; but I did probably something wrong: the reimported DNG file from Ps to Lr, and then exported JPEG file from Lr to NikonGear was completely posterized, so I abandoned, without trying to investigate what went wrong.

[stenrasmussen]

Another one, this time with Raw Therapee. I've now tried Photoshop CC 2017, Photo Ninja, Irident and Raw Therapee and the latter is my choice.

[pluton]

@pluto: I have difficulties to understand your statement when I look at contribution #6 and #11: Irridient artifacts are there as well and may be worse than Lr. Although the overall results are promising.

Clarification:  I have LR 6.x, not CC.  There is the [remote]possibility that the Fuji X processing in LR-CC may be different.
I have concluded that having more than one raw converter is a good idea.

[MFloyd]

Hello pluton; you wrightly said "remote"; Ps, Lr, Bridge are sharing the same RAW "ACR engine" so, I would be very surprised, beside some CC post-processing gimmicks.

[John Geerts]

Raw Therapee and the latter is my choice.

Raw Therapee is rather slow here, with updating the changes to the image. Do you experience the same problem?

[stenrasmussen]

Raw Therapee is rather slow here, with updating the changes to the image. Do you experience the same problem?

Raw Therapee might lack the speed, some features and easy learning curve of other applications but it does give the user an almost endless professional tools for squeezing out information from a raw file. I am but at the early stages of learning its many features. But as always, horses for courses.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Sten.  True, it has an extensive help function --- http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Main_Page

[Bjørn Rørslett]

... and it works under Linux, giving massive horsepower for next to nothing.

[stenrasmussen]

It is a cross platform thing that just works.

[stenrasmussen]

WOW!
1. Irident X Transformer is way above the rest. And so easy to use 
2. Add image, run without sharpening, import DNG to PS and do whatever tweaks you like.

[Bill Mellen]

WOW!
1. Irident X Transformer is way above the rest. And so easy to use 
2. Add image, run without sharpening, import DNG to PS and do whatever tweaks you like.

I thought the same thing Sten.  It took me only a few images before I bought a licensed copy!

[Erik Lund]

Look at how the white walls shine through the branches,,, second enlarged image from right,,,