I do think that Adobe could have waited to release Denoise after it added jpeg compatibility.

Why would Adobe cripple its latest AI tool in this manner? It’s so much easier to reduce noise in raw files that have oodles more data in them than jpegs. “That’s not very useful,” I thought to myself, realizing that most of us with noisy images would probably realize that most of them are jpegs.

I clicked on it as I prayed for Adobe to add sensor spot removal under its AI-enabled tools soon. “Reduce noise with AI,” read the caption below it. There it was, a sparkly new button that promised to make grainy color noise a worry of the part. As the album hadn’t yet synced here, I just picked one of the images already on the app and scrolled down to the Detail panel. Not quite… Problem 1Īfter adding over 60 images to the collection and syncing it to my Lightroom cloud on my Mac Mini, I opened up Lightroom on my Macbook. All I needed to do was to sync those images into a collection on Lightroom Classic and then access that collection on Lightroom. So when the opportunity to test out the new Denoise tool on Lightroom arose, I knew I had tons of underexposed, noisy images to use for this review. But as Capture One still hasn’t given any indication of bringing out a smartphone app, Adobe Lightroom (not the Classic version) has been my go-to editing software when I’m out and about. Until last year it was my primary post-processing tool until I began using Capture One a lot more. I’ve got about 13 years of photos in my Adobe Lightroom Classic catalog. But First, A Lesson I Learned The Hard Way It’s not just noise reduction that’s been AI-enabled photographers will find the recent update to reduce their editing time significantly when working on portraits. At least Adobe has realized the need to integrate more AI features immediately and has done so in its latest update of Lightroom. Adobe and Capture One were left behind with software like Topaz DeNoise, On1 NoNoise, and DXO PureRAW, making great strides with clean, effective, and realistic-looking noise reduction.

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