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An Iridient Developer Workflow Guide

  • AGriffin
  • July 27, 2015
  • 3 comments

Do you ever wonder if you’re using the most time efficient workflow?

If you’re a Fujifilm shooter and want to use Iridient Developer as your primary photo processing software, or even if you want to use it as a RAW converter, then have a solid and consistent workflow is not only going to save you a lot of time, but it will also make your photo editing process a lot simpler. 

In this guide I want to share with you the way I use Iridient Developer to process my Fujifilm RAW files and a file structure to help you stay organized.

 

Iridient Developer Workflow

There are two ways of using Iridient that I’ll cover, one is using Lightroom first to build and organize all your photo catalogs, then use Iridient as a plugin that you send files to and from.

The other method is using Iridient Developer Only and manually organizing your photos and exports.

 

Using Iridient Developer With Lightroom

There are really only two good ways to use Iridient with Lightroom. One is to set it up as an external editor (or plugin), the other is to send files to Iridient Developer manually. Both are good to know, and I personally use the two interchangeably.

I’ll cover later how to get files back into Lightroom. There are a few ways of doing this, but really only one that you need to know.

 

Setting Up Iridient As A Plugin – For JPEG

To set up Iridient Developer as a plugin, all you need to do is go into Lightroom Preferences, find the External Editing Tab, and choose a new Additional External Editor. Navigate to Iridient Developer in your Applications folder and you should be good to go. There are a few options you can choose as well. I usually set mine like this.

 

From there once you’re files are in Lightroom, all you’ll need to do is right click each image or group and select Edit In -> Iridient

You’ll be prompted with a few options that look like this.

 

 

EDIT: Unfortunately this only works for JPEG or TIFF files. It will not work with RAW files. 

If you shot JPEG, then you should Edit a Copy so you always have a backup of your original JPEG.

 

Now you will go about editing your photo in Iridient like you normally do.

This will not really give you any huge advantage to image detail or X-Trans image RAW converting since you’re using JPEG, but it will allow you to use Iridients other great features like their sharpening and noise reduction tools which I love.

 

 

Send Files To Iridient Developer Manually – For RAW

If the plugin technique isn’t working for you. Or you’re shooting exclusively RAW, you can always send files to Iridient Developer Manually. It’s as easy as selecting one or as many photos as you like in Lightroom and dragging and dropping them onto your Iridient Developer Icon on your Dock.

 

If the icon isn’t there, then open Iridient first and it should appear. 

 

Exporting From Iridient Back To Lightroom

When you export from Iridient Developer (or Process Image and Save As) you’re giving a few options. DNG (Photoshop), JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, or TIFF. Any of them are fine, although I prefer TIFF. 16bit is ideal.

You’re usually prompted to Save Image to the same folder the file is from, if not, navigate to that folder and export there.

I usually add something like -IR to the end of my file, so it will look something like this: DSCF0256-IR.TIFF

This way when I’m in Lightroom, I’ll be able to instantly see the file was processed using Iridient Developer by looking at the file name above the preview clip.

 

To get the file back into Lightroom, all you need to do is find your corresponding folder in Lightroom, right click it and select Synchronize Folders.

Lightroom will then scan that folder and automatically import any new files.

 

 

Exporting From Iridient Without Lightroom

If you’re not using Lightroom and since Iridient has almost no catalog or organizational features, you’ll likely want to create some sort of folder system to manage your exports in your Finder.

I typically setup everything by date and go from there.

If you don’t have a file structure you can use something like this, or a modified version of this to suit your own needs.

 

 

Saving Your Work With Iridient

If you’re using only Iridient and want to save your all your work or create libraries, you can import as many photos as you like into Iridient and select File -> save image settings for all images. This will save the state of all the images you imported into Iridient so you can work on them later.

If you want to instantly load certain files or folders all with your saved work, you’ll need to use Bookmarks.

 

 

Creating Catalogs With Bookmarks

If you want to create catalogs similar to Lightroom, the closest thing you can do is to create bookmarks. 

There are two options when creating bookmarks.

  • Add Current Folder
  • Add Current Image

Add Current Folder will load the entire folder of the image you’re working and allow you to save it as a bookmark. 

Say you have a day when you went to Yosemite, you can load those images and Add Current Folder. It will ask you to type the name of this Bookmark and it will then store that set of photos under your bookmarks for you to load instantly at anytime. Just remember to always save your work.

Add Current Image allows you to do the same thing but only with a single image.

 

 

Working With Iridient Conclusions

Working with Iridient can be a great experience if you can just master this workflow. It does a lot for Fujifilm photographers and is worth every penny.

By following this relatively simple guide, you should be able to keep your workflow with Iridient very organized whether you’re using Iridient with Lightroom, or Iridient by itself. 

You could probably even use similar workflows with Apples Photo Application, although that application is not as flexible when it comes to organization and managing your photos from my experience.

However it is can be great for your final exports, since it works with the cloud where you’ll forever have backups if anything catastrophic were to happen. I personally use a Dropbox folder for my cloud based backups.

 

This is my technique, what’s yours? Did I miss anything, or can I do anything better? Share in the comments.

AGriffin

Professional editor, blogger and photographer from Los Angeles California.

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3 comments
  1. Aaron Ramsey says:
    March 28, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    When I have made some adjustments to a RAW X100f file in Lightroom, then drag it to the Iridient Developer icon, it opens that RAW file in ID, however the changes are gone and I’m looking at the original RAW file again. I have also tried saving the metadata in Lightroom to the file(s), and opening them in ID, only to have the same result. Is there a way to import the RAW file AND its XMP data over to ID before processing said file into a TIFF?

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    1. Alik Griffin says:
      March 28, 2017 at 10:49 pm

      You can’t import the RAW XMP data over to ID. But it would actually be better to go the other way. Use ID to process the RAW into a TIFF and make your adjustments all in LR on the Tiff file made by ID. Since ID processes the RAWs a little nicer than Lightroom. That’s the biggest advantage of ID.

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      1. Aaron Ramsey says:
        March 28, 2017 at 10:51 pm

        Okay excellent! Thanks you very much for the information!

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