P: Bring back the ability of Enhance to run in the background. (LrC)

Well I think it's now clear that Adobe wants to go down this route with the denoising method, all it's users be damned. I've mentioned before it's not just the lack of background processing that has damaged people's workflows, it's the whole change of method. I've spent years honing use of smart collections in my workflow and this change breaks all of that. So far I've yet to find a suitable solution as the criteria for building a smart collection isn't specific enough, so I'll be sticking to 14.3 until my subscription is up for renewal later in the year. 

Not being a Pro photographer myself, I would like to understand from those who are why all photos from a shoot, which could be thousands, need to be Denoised. Surely only a fraction of the photos shot will be used, so most will not need denoising.

If I were such a photographer using the 'spray and hope' method, I would not waste any of my time on those images that didn't make the grade. I do sometimes shoot astro at high ISO, but I do not denoise all my shots; only those few that are worth processing further.

Any enlightenment would be welcome.

Checked out Version 14.5 and although I like some of the new features and Denoise works a bit better in that once the default has been processed, you can move the slider without having to update all images all over again. However, why are you being so stubborn Adobe? Why can't you implement background processing? Or if you can't figure out a solid way of doing that, just give us the option and give us the old way of processing via Enhance and creating DNG's? You seriously can't think this new way is better surely? It's fine when doing an image here and there but many of us need to Denoise while working on other images. I sure hope you can come up with a better solution. Going to have to go back to 14.3 and forego the new features as processing Denoise in the background is more important to me.

The problem is not isolated to Enhance.

All batch Ai block the UI.

What I suggested is to block the single photos when Ai computations is running, show a loading bar on the thumbnail...unlock the image when Ai computation is done for the image.

This would ensure that as soon as a photo becomes "available for editing" we can work.

A Progress Scope it the status activity would allow cancel all remaining AI processes in one go, no need to cancel per photo via the thumbnail loading bar.

So workflow would be :

1. Users applies Ai Settings to selection (Enhance or Masking or Profile or Distraction Remove or etc...) 

2. When the first photo is done user can view it ot edit it or tag it or rate it or do metadata

3. When the second photo is done user also can view it or edit it or tag it or rate it or do metadata

etc...

@gareths61360876 has said he needs to edit 1500 images with Enhance.

Assuming an average of 20 seconds per photo of Denoise that means he needs 8 hours and 20 minutes to be able to finally view or edit or tag or rate any of them.
Terrible.

Instead with what I propose after 20 seconds he can work on the first one.

After 40 seconds he can work on the second one.

etc...

Much better no!

Even if he only had to edit 30 images it would still be better than now.

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The update to the denoise feature in Lightroom Classic is unacceptable for my workflow. While previous versions allowed editing to continue on other images while an image was being denoised, the new version freezes the app until the one image has completed the denoise process. Time consuming when I have 1500 images to work on for a job. 14.4 requires all resources to process the denoise image & all other editing to stop. That simply isn't practical!

Andrew Bates waiting for a reply from you.

Or use the translate button 🙄

I did update to 14.4 but trying to denoise one cr3 file took 3 minutes...the next day it was 10 mins.

My workflow is now crawling...I rolled back to 14.3 and that was ok at first but the next day it was just as slow.

The agent told me they know they have faults and that they would take 1 month before being resolved...so I want my monthly subscrition paid back until my workflow increases...anything less is robbery...Adobe are common  thieves and conmen.

@Radoan A: "is there any way, I can still use the latest feature but in background? So that I can edit other photos?"

It's easy to apply Denoise to a batch of photos with your desired amount setting, but you can't do anything else in LR while it's processing the batch. (There's a more involved workflow using Adobe Bridge that would let you do apply Denoise while continuing to use LR -- see a previous post in this thread.)

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