6 real seconds, not the amount of time DeNoise AI reports as it is processing.Ħ seconds per image is fine when a photographer is taking an image or two through the software, but this is not practical for running thousands of images through DeNoise AI. The fastest I was able to get raw images to be processed in DeNoise AI was about 6 seconds per image. Even on the best of computer hardware here in early 2022 DeNoise AI is not “fast”. Right up front I want to set some expectations on the speed of DeNoise AI. We discuss this, gear, adventures, light painting, lenses, night photography, creativity, and more in this ongoing YouTube podcast.This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates and Adorama Affiliate programs. Night photographers Tim Little, Mike Cooper and I all use Pentax gear. If you enjoy the book, please leave a nice review, thanks! My books are available there and Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target, Booktopia, Books A Million, IBS, and Aladin. Head on over to the Ken Lee Photography website to purchase books or look at night photography and long exposure prints and more. And it’s also better if you use a faster GPU for Denoise and its other Enhance features. In other words, it’s perfectly normal for the process to take a while. However, enhanced Raw Details DNGs can be processed with Denoise.Īdobe also states that Denoise is a GPU-intensive feature.

Once the image has been enhanced with Denoise or Super Resolution, you may not process it again. Applying noise reduction prior to other tools is generally good practice anyway. Other notes from AdobeĪdobe recommends that you denoise your image before applying AI masks and Content Aware. I used a single exposure as an example of a high-ISO photo so you could see how the new Denoise feature works. This is from the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. But I must say that it retains detail and applies noise reduction, well, intelligently.Ībove: This and the header photo were processed using only Lightroom Classic, including their new AI-powered Denoise feature. When I saw that Denoise was controlled by just one slider, I was a bit dubious. I also must confess that I was pleasantly surprised at how well this worked. When Denoise was set to 50, the shadowy areas of the mountain began looking very “plastic” and over-processed to me.ĭenoise also addressed color noise, the little spots of noise that are easily visible in the sky, while leaving the stars alone. The darker areas around the mountain were kept intact but didn’t look “fake” and “plastic-like”. I found that the noise was satisfactorily eliminated while retaining detail. I found that for this high-ISO Milky Way photo, I preferred a setting around 30, shown in the first two examples. The new AI-powered Denoise in Lightroom Classic is no exception. Analysis of the applied noise reductionĪny noise reduction system or just about any other setting can look bad when you apply too much enhancement.

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