FINALLY!!! Amazing Noise Reduction in Lightroom and Photoshop

What's New in Lightroom (April Update Video):

[SteFreee]

This is like a god send to people just getting into photography and editing

[arturodelarosa]

Damn now i have to go through all my damn old high noise photos and see how many of them are saved by this improvement.

[randyfox]

Thanks Matt. What a great comparison of the 2 products that I use a lot: LR and Topaz Photo AI. At the end, you did a great job of explaining whether to use LR or AI and you hit on the 2 main reasons a person might stick with the AI: your personal work flow and up-sizing .
Looking down the road a bit- if Topaz wants to charge me for updating the AI, (AND LR has kept pace) it might be time to let it go and just focus (see what I did there?) on LR for all of my editing needs.
And thanks for the comparison photos. Nothing beats actual side by side images to let us see for ourselves.
Well done, fella.

[the-pixel-whisperer]

Excellent video as always, Matt. I appreciate how evenhanded it was near the end, when helping decide whether to use Lightroom or a third-party app on noise. You're right: all these AI apps are so good that you sometimes have to pixel-peep at 300% to show meaningful differences. It's all about the preferred workflow. I already have a preference of DxO PureRAW 3 over Lightroom's update, but I'll continue to tweak my results with Lightroom and would love to wean off my continually updated (at $79 each time) add-on.

[prosunsport]

Well presented. AI is just getting better. This also makes F4 lens more usable in low light and not necessary to upgrade to f2.8 lens, as u can just push up ISO and use Denoise

[markcasebeer]

Great addition to Lightroom and camera raw. My workflow with high ISO files is DXO and finish with Topaz Sharpen. You hit the nail on the head, the new noise removal is very close, now we need adobe to bring world class sharpening to Lightroom. Thanks for your thoughts.

[JohnDrummondPhoto]

Like you, I've been using Topaz for noise reduction. This update is simply fantastic. If anything, Topaz has (to my eyes) a tendency to oversharpen in the course of reducing nose. I'm definitely going to play around with the Adobe Denoise. I never upsize; so I may have a decision to make about Photo AI if my results mirror yours.

[barbaralee]

Matt, thanks so much for the review. I always appreciate your reviews. I use Topaz Photo AI for noise reduction but now I will have to compare images.

[DanYosua]

I'm used to Adobe CC and don't want to switch or add programs but I routinely feel sour about paying for it. The standout is Lightroom - the updates they've been cranking out there in the past few years are awesome. Excited to try this out, great vid!

[jadiea]

I love, love, love this! Topaz tended to add weird artifacts in animal fur and whiskers. There was also no way to turn off the sharpening. It would destroy the very subtle feather detail in birds. Adobe really came through! I actually will sharpen in ACR now after doing denoise, and I love the result.

[cadmus]

At 24 seconds, that IS super quick - I've had a single image take 24 minutes (42mp, Iso32, 000)!! I definitely am going to have to upgrade my graphics card to use this, but that will cost almost the price I was going to have to spend on DxO anyway, so, I guess I've put that upgrade off long enough!

[iqueque]

As usual, the most measured sane advice. Thanks Matt

[coldwrning]

👏👏👏 concert photography will never be the same

[craigpiferphotography]

It's great to see your take on this. I saw the update Monday night and nobody was talking about it yet. Now that several people are dropping videos, it seems that the consensus is that Adobe really hit it out of the park on this one. I expect we'll see sharpening from them fairly soon as well.
In the one photo that you should with the comparison to Topaz, I thought that the Topaz version was a little "crunchy" in terms of sharpness, and it also looked like it had more noise still than what the Adobe result was. I think that it is important that everyone determines what will work best for them as it may not be a one size fits all photos solution.
My biggest issue, personally, is how long it takes. My computer is sitting right around 10 years old, so it takes a very long time to process this on an image. I did recently get ON1's NoNoise, which I think is faster, but it's also cumbersome to send the image out to another program.

[melodicprogressivehousemph]

I have Denoise software and after using Adobe's Denoise, I prefer Adobe's Denoise as it does not change the colour post Denoising unlike Denoise software. Additionally, Adobe's Denoise maintains the quality of raw files which Denoise does not do completely. Cheers for making this video.

[adamchandler]

Pretty awesome. I hope they do a sharpening update soon, too, that gives as good results as Topaz which currently blows LR away.

[marcingogowski]

I love you mention about better option and compared it

[ixshawnix]

It says denoise is not compatible with this photo format; what format does it your image need to be in?

[wyro]

This is the way things always go if major companies are on the ball. Let edge companies develop the edge tools, then learn from them and incorporate. Congrats to Adobe for staying on the ball. But let's applaud Topaz for being in the game and driving things forward.

[alandyer]

Thanks! I wonder if this technology will eventually appear in Photoshop as the long-promised Neural Noise Reduction filter so it could be applied to other file formats later in the workflow.