Finally!! a Lightroom Tool that actually IMPROVES Image Quality!

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In this week’s episode, we discuss the just released Lightroom Tool that actually improves image quality! One of the biggest complaints for years from Lightroom users has been it's inability to improve overall image quality by reducing noise in a photograph. The previous way of doing this reduced some noise, but also destroyed all the fine detail in an image. And now thanks to Ai, the new option available in Lightroom not only removes almost all noise, but also sharpens and enhances the fine details as well - a total Win Win! But, that's not it - in this video I'll review the new Ai Denoise feature along with some of the other new tools available in the latest update in Lightroom. I hope you enjoy this week's video & as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.

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[MarkDenneyPhoto]

🌟Question: What’s the highest ISO you’ll use on your camera?

[paulomateusguerra]

That denoise feature can be a game changer for smartphone photography. Especially with low light.

[woutdezeeuw]

Would be interesting to see how the noise reduction on high ISO compares to a low iso shot, to see how accurate the color/detail actually is.

[soukart]

Mark. Your content is quite remarkable, and so are your style, presentation, narration and voice. You seem to be such a nice guy who genuinely likes to help and share knowledge and skills. Thank you so much for what you publish on this superb channel. So helpful.

[shyamalganguly]

The noise reduction tool looks amazing and almost inexplicable how it works so efficiently after having a picture taken by the sensor of the camera with fairly good amount of megapixel content on the sensor already capable of producing low noise level even at a high iso level! The amazing fact is that every pixel when exposed to light has already captured light from the different areas of a scene having uneven light reflected from each areas of the scene and these areas on the sensor have pixels of different light content giving the all the latitudes of light contained in each pixel of the entire sensor area and as it's known to us that pixels have capacities to contain light to the level of highest iso level and the more light they capture the more exposed they're to the amount of light they could hold in them! The grains of flims did the same work but the difference with the pixels remains in the fact that pixels when overly exposed cannot be made to dodge to reduce the exposures to the desired level which is unlike the grains of an emulsion of a celluloid film and on the contrary the pixels have the hidden light contained when under exposed and you can easily crank up the exposure in the areas of under exposure to bring out the detail in those low exposed pixels areas but to much of enhancing brings about the noise out of the pixels' incapacity to hold the brightness at a very higher level! Now, I don't know, how this has been curbed by post processing is astonishing me and I'm very curious to know if this is for the different form of medium like that of the clarity of the screen of the monitor on which the post processing is being done has an advantage over the noise which comes after a picture has been made or the credit goes only to the software? In the end I appreciate the picture you chose to reduce the noise level not because of the reason but because of it's overall visual appeal of the scene and I liked the steps of stones looks very naturally moistened peculiar to the place and the leading pathway made all the way up to the mysterious background of the foggy vail is a treat to the eye! I want more of your valued techniques as I know nothing of the post processing technique! On the other side I'm stunned by images Mads Peter Ivans presents in his epic tours of picturesque landscapes with Nigel and James and sometimes with others and alone too! You people are so inspiring!

[dotmatrix]

This new feature really rescued my astrophotography. No longer do I feel like I need to stack images at ISO 1600 or 3200.

[mikewilson]

You solved a problem for me. I didnt realise denoise could only be used on raw files. I only shoot raw, but I imported a lightroom image i did earlier and denoise didnt work, then I realised the processed raw image becomes JPEG, when exported so denoise wouldnt touch it. Really excellent tutorial. You really bring home just how good this new denoise feature.
I have an old laptop, i upgraded to be able to use Lightroom Classic, but still takes an anoying lenghth of time to process ! But the results are spectacular. Thanks.

[kevinwhite]

Well, let me tell you...I do mostly stage photography--musicals, dance recitals, etc. I live at ISO 6400 with a lot of black in the backgrounds. The Lightroom Denoise is absolutely amazing for me. A revelation.

[classic.cameras]

It takes like 4-5 mins on my fast computer to process a Sony A7 IV file but WHEN IT DOES. Wowzers! I will be doing this to all my stock images from now on. It really is impressive.

[chrisburns]

For action shots, I started using more and more Auto ISO (after setting my shutter speed very high to capture action, and the f stop around f8 to get more in focus). Sometimes that results din ISO's between 3200 and 6400. I was using Topaz Noise AI to manage the results, and it works quite well, but is an extra step in my LR workflow. So it works but is usually cumbersome. Then when this LR Denoise AI tool became available, I tried it out and did some comparisons to Topaz AI on some higher ISO action shots I had. The Topaz tool might be very slightly better quality under a pixel microscope, but boy is the workflow so much easier using the LR tool. So I have stopped using Topaz and now only use LR Noise AI and will probably never look back. And I also thought I was seeing some better color and sharpening when using this Noise AI tool inside LR, but I was thinking that couldn't possibly be happening, right? Glad to see you confirm what I was seeing. Thanks! :)

[dougstead]

I always enjoy your tutorials, this one, in particular, is exceptional! Thank you for these and future offerings. Cheers.

[rayasiala]

Your videos are absolutely amazing! I feel like I’m sitting in your living room with you, while you’re showing me stuff on your computer! Very very comfortable, which is a good thing because now I feel like I can go and do this! Thank you again for your knowledge!

[danev]

Thanks Mark. I always share these videos with our photography club members. Super informative...

[michaelmckeag]

The new noise reduction has received lots of attention, thanks for pointing out some of the small improvements that can make a big difference too.

[adjake]

the denoise is def fun to play with, but the curves in masks is really something ive been waiting for. super powerful.

[Harleybobtailminnow]

Thanks so much for helping me to realise my LRC had not auto-updated, and was therefore running on an earlier version, pre-noise reduction! Had to reload Creative Cloud before I could get anything to update. Now looking forward to testing NR on some of my library pics...

[richardhutson]

As always, I learn something from your videos. I've been using the new tools in LRc but have yet to notice what the little eye icons did. I also learned that the denoise feature could be adjusted. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[joegodwin]

I viewed your free video on Lightroom and found it very helpful. One of the most detailed and easy to understand and I have seen a few! Thank you.

[kencawley]

The color enhance can be problematic. Saw another YouTuber try it on a shot of the aurora. While it was great on his Mac, on his PC the aurora was throughly oversaturated with new colors introduced. Hopefully, Adobe will provide a slider to adjust the color enhance level

[garyanderson]

It seems to me that the information that's baked into a RAW file is more than other, previous, post imaging processes have been able to interpret. In other words, the green "clover leaf" information was always there, but this new process is able to "see" it and therefore enhance it. This new tool is truly amazing!