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P: Lightroom Paste Settings with Denoise creates color artifacts & pink overlays

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June 19, 2025
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Hi,

Bug 1) I've been running into this issue for a couple weeks now. Whenever I copy edit settings, it'll paste fine onto one image, but if I try to paste onto another image, it does nothing.

Bug 2) I also tried pasting onto multiple images at once and it turned a bunch of them weird colors until I let them update AI settings. I think it might have something to do with the denoise features, TBH.

The attached green image is after pasting settings, but before updating AI. Normal looking image is after updating AI.

-Matt

Edit: I'd like to note that Bug 1 is intermittent. I'd say it's like 1 in every 3 times I copy settings. Sometimes it'll paste an infinite number of times, others I get one paste and I'm done.

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PJV Photography

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Lightroom Version: 8.5

Mac OS: Sequoia Version 15.6.1

I often want to denoise a few hundred images overnight and then actually edit them the next day, a workflow that's always worked pretty well with Lightroom until recently.

Following the 8.4 update (and now continuing even after the 8.5 update I had hoped would patch the issue), every time I try to apply denoise by copying settings and pasting them to more than one image, the process fails for the majority of the images. After the process runs for a while, they wind up with some pink or green error artifact, and a warning dialog saying that I need to update AI settings.

It usually works fine once I click the "Update All" button in the dialog box, but it then takes a minute or so to re-do that image's denoise process. This renders the attempted batch run pointless, since I still have to manually click through each of the failed images to update their AI settings.

I've seen quite a few people mentioning this issue elsewhere. Is there a plan to fix it in the next update, or should those of us who regularly use batch de-noising in our workflow just plan on rolling back to version 8.3.1 for the forseeable future?

Ervins G.

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I'm experiencing the exact same issue. Have you found a workaround?

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PJV Photography

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This workaround from Rikk seems to avoid the issue.

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Aleke

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Hi @matthew_5332, thanks for reaching out.

Could you share your System Info? You can find it in Lightroom under Help > System Info. Just copy the info to a text file and attach it to your response, or share it with us through Google Drive, WeTransfer, or another file-sharing platform.
Thanks a lot! 😊

Alek

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matthew_5332Author

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@Aleke Here ya go! I had the GPU enabled at the time this happened.

SysInfo_MattyLaptop.txt

Sameer K

Community Manager

Thanks for sharing the System info; it is rather detailed. Your machine has two GPUs: the power-saving AMD Radeon 780M Graphics and the high-performance Nvidia RTX 4060. The installed and active drivers are slightly older.

Please try these two suggestions:
1 - Update the graphics drivers using AMD & Nvidia's auto-detect program. (AMD: https://adobe.ly/3Tzf3C6) (Nvidia: https://adobe.ly/44JxZDd)

2 - Follow step 6 in the content here to configure the default GPU for Lightroom: https://adobe.ly/49YQSCI

After you update the GPU drivers, try the steps below and check how it goes. The GPU info & Logs location on Windows is %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw. A shortcut to get to this folder on Windows is:

Press the Windows + R
Enter %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw
Rename the GPU & Logs folder in this directory by adding .old at the end. (GPU.old & Logs.old)
Relaunch Lightroom.

Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
Sameer K

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vlachjn

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Some photos become pink after using AI denoise on multiple photos in the latest version of Lightroom CC. Need to go and update AI in all of these to get rid of it.

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SpencerthePhotog

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Version: 8.4

Build: 20250603-0500-10f89fb

Running on Mac Mini 2023 with Apple M2 Pro Chip on 16GB of Memory with macOS Sequoia 15.5

I applied batch edits to a group of photographs. After the batch edits pasted, several of my images now have this weird magenta overlay. Reminds of the old days when a form of light leaking would show up on film.

The AI edit tool I used in the first source image was the Detail > Denoise. I simply checked the box to enable it. I didn't adjust any of the Denoise settings.

If I select a single image there is an option to update the AI. If I run that update the image corrects itself. I don't want this to be a two step process. And seeing my images this way makes me worried about corruption.

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Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey, @SpencerthePhotog, @OwleyMedic, @wolfesam, & @vlachjn. I'll help you figure this out.

Please press and hold the OPT + SHIFT key when you launch Lightroom the next time & click on 'Yes' when prompted to reset Lightroom's preferences.

After this, try to recreate the issue, record the steps that trigger the pink screen, and share a numbered list of steps that recreate this unexpected behavior.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

Sameer K

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