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June 17, 2025
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P: Bring back the ability of Enhance to run in the background. (LrC)

  • 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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Participant
September 10, 2025

Are you a bot? Adobe Employee, really?

Participating Frequently
September 10, 2025

Why would you remove the abilitiy to mass enhance photos within Lightroom (Cloud based)?

 

Whoever thought of it as a good idea, is definently not a professional. ..and for anyone suggesting copy pasting a setting (in our case, Denoise), I have news for you: I did that and yet, I have to go through each photo to update setting for the Denoise to be applied properly.

 

I work with thousands of photos - do you understand my frustation? I'm sure I'm not the only one. 

Participating Frequently
September 9, 2025

If they had anticipated this result, they should have given users a choice in the program settings. Now they can only revert to the old version.

Freeze the beauty
Participating Frequently
September 9, 2025

I can accept that the computer will slow down during the AI ​​denoising process, but after the AI ​​denoising is complete, the image will still be severely lag, which is unacceptable.

Freeze the beauty
KR Seals
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Community Expert
September 4, 2025

What are your computer specs? GPU? CPU? CPU memory?  RAM? OS version?

 

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.
Participating Frequently
September 3, 2025

@KANG KR I would point you to the pinned reply by @KrishnaMaithreya here where they say: "these models are currently designed assuming they can take over the entire GPU". I expect you'll be told that taking up excessive CPU/GPU usage (even when loading, likely due to not having a preview built) is something you should expect.

Participating Frequently
September 3, 2025

I've observed that when using the new noise reduction feature, clicking on a picture with noise reduction completed instantly fills up the CPU, causing the entire computer to become very slow. The new non-destructive noise reduction feature places extremely high demands on computer performance. I hope to be able to choose the previous method.

Freeze the beauty
Participating Frequently
September 3, 2025

The new version of LIGHTROOM's AI noise reduction function does not require generating separate DNG files, which makes editing the denoised images extremely choppy and far less smooth than when generating separate DNG files before. Can the original separate DNG noise reduction files be restored?

Freeze the beauty
Known Participant
September 1, 2025

I just updated to 14.5 Saturday and took some wildlife shots this morning. For some time now I've been shooting Auto ISO. Since Denoise I have been happily selecting the 5 or 10 keepers and then running Denoise at 100 as a batch. I just tried doing that today and Denoise will neither automatically manage processing the selected group, nor let me adjust the amount at all, initially! When I let it complete the first 1, there was a message on the screen about using Auto Sync and it finally let me adjust the amount. After adjusting it I tied various things with setting auto sync but nothing happened. Finally I tried manual Sync selecting the 'new' denoise option. I do not consider this an improvement but a 'technical  issue'.

 

Also, as mentioned before, when Denoising a new image I'd really like to be able to set it to create a DNG file to keep.

Participant
August 31, 2025

I would prefer the destructive new file creation over this image by image denoise. This method has made huge impct on my productivity and has impacted my ability to deliver event images in a timely manner. It has negitivly impacted my business and I will need to move to a new tool in order to have quality TIMELY denoise. A compermise might be that you create a 'Batch Denoise' feature that brings back the DNG option for those who need a more timely solution. 

Known Participant
August 31, 2025
You can always downgrade to a previous version and still work the way you
prefer. I did.