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

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June 17, 2025
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I just updated to Lightroom Classic 14.4 and although I do like the fact that I can Denoise without creating a DNG file, I still would like the option to select a series of images and menu: Photo>Enhance... to let it create dngs in the background which enables me to work on other images while it;s doing those. Currently, in 14.4 it takes a long time, especially if I have multiple images that I am denoising and I cannot do anything elese while it's doing that process. Is there still a way possible to do it the old previous way of creating a DNG Denoised file? Seems like an oversight when implementing this new way and slows down my whole workflow.

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defaultypxzsilnj05r

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Help. I use denoise on hundreds of images (sports photographer) and until yesterday I was able to continue editing other images while denoise was running on previous image. I can no longer do that. This is adding hours to my editing time. Surely there is a solution to this.

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Jagger_Williams9227

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I don't know why the sudden change to including the enhance feautre in the edit panel, but it is the worst change to come out to date. Previously, you could enhance all photos at once and just have to wait a (long) while. Now, you have to individually enhance each photo and it takes 4x longer than the already long process. Change it back to the way it was.

linusw55846277

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I'm editing a wedding at the moment and denoising 135 images takes 58 minutes! It's insane, yes?

On my old 10 year old mac and the last version of Lightroom, it took, I dunno, 15 minutes?

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Sydney354435598k7e

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I am sitting on several projects, so unmotivated to work on them, because of how the new adjustments to this feature has messed up my work flow. Each day I am checking for an update hoping Adobe has addressed it. Clearly, many of us are upset by the new change.

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Generous_view0D45

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Can you tell me why my requests keep getting moved to the Lightroom Classic section? I’m using LR (not Lightroom Classic). And then I keep seeing tips like 'use Auto Sync', which doesn’t even exist in Lightroom.

By @suutsch

That is commonplace on this forum. It is likely the entire pile will be moved to Camera Raw instead, as the CR Engine underlies all of the Denoise work. Right now, we accumulate posts under LrC because it has 10x the views of CR and 3x the views of LrE. It is a visibility thing to ensure the most numbers of persons see it.

By @Rikk Flohr: Photography

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Sydney354435598k7e

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While I appreciate that Lightroom has updated the "Enhance" feature to avoid creating duplicates, I absolutely hate that I now have to apply Denoise or Super Resolution enhancements to each photo individually.

I used to be able to select a batch of images, run the Enhance feature, and walk away to focus on other tasks while the process ran in the background. Now, I’m forced to sit through each individual enhancement, manually confirming details for every single image. With processing times averaging 20–30 seconds per photo, editing an album of 300 photos now requires at least 1.5 to 2.5 hours of just sitting and clicking through—completely killing my productivity.

Please consider reintroducing the option for batch processing or a “run settings on all” feature so photographers can work more efficiently again.

suutsch

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@Rikk Flohr: Photography

Can you tell me why my requests keep getting moved to the Lightroom Classic section? I’m using LR (not Lightroom Classic). And then I keep seeing tips like 'use Auto Sync', which doesn’t even exist in Lightroom.

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Mirano26705168hijc

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Adding to the conversation, i feel like this is a huge stepdown in how it's being handled, im away for work and im going back to a previous version, this is unhandable

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Paper Lantern Studio

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While I really do love that this new update allows to take away the DNG file, it has tremendously slowed my workflow and is incredibly frustrating to work with. If there could be a way to apply this feature to multiple images at once, or at least allow for the que to occur so that I don't have to sit for 30 secs while each image I need it to be applied to that would be perfect. Is this in the works already?

Afterall, the whole idea of AI is to make life easier, not slower or harder. I appreciate the insight and attention to making this flow easier! Fingers crossed for a very quick fix to this as it's excruciatingly slow to work right now.

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Law_ren_ce

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What is this? How is this better?

I used to be able to edit a wedding that resulted in 1000 photos after culling. I could apply different strenghts of AI Denoise to different photos, depending on the ISO values. And then let my computer run all the tasks, with two or more progress bars in the top left corner in LR. I could go to sleep and have the photos ready for export in the morning for fast-delivery assignments.

But with this update, this workflow is impossible.

you can't run multiple AI Denoise actions at the same time. I use this all the time. For light, medium and strong AI Denoise
When AI Denoise is running, you can't do any work whatsoever in Lightroom. You are locked out. You used to be able to continue working on other photos. No time lost.

How could this ever get passed quality check? It chances so much. Lightroom is not Photoshop. People use this for large exports and multiple photos. Not one photo at a time. Please fix this.