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steflocomat
Participant
August 9, 2024
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P: Button to remove original DNG after Denoise

  • August 9, 2024
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Hello, the community in classic Lightroom, the latest version with noise reduction by AI, I find it fantastic and I use it absolutely all the time every time. On the other hand, would it be possible to bring a button or a function so that I can have the choice so that the original raw files no longer appear and so that only the raw files processed with accentuation appear?

Otherwise I'm losing a crazy amount of time to remove the original files one by one and that doubles the number of photos and even doubles the weight of the report on my hard disk.

if I ask for batch processing by AI, it's because I no longer want to have the original raw files in the dupsiser but only the accented raw files.

Thank you for listening.

 

 

Bonjour, la communauté dans Lightroom classique, la dernière version avec la réduction de bruit par l'IA, je trouve ça fantastique et je m'en sers absolument tout le temps à chaque reportage. Par contre serait-il possible d'apporter un bouton ou une fonction pour que je puisse avoir le choix pour que les fichiers raw d'origine n 'apparaissent plus et que seul les fichiers raw traités avec accentuation apparaissent ?

Sinon je perds un temps fous à enlever les fichiers d'origine un par un et cela double le nombre de photos et de surcroit double le poids du reportage sur mon disc dur.

si je demande un traitement par lot par l'IA c'est que je ne souhaite plus avoir les fichiers raw d'origine dans le dossiser mais bien seulement les fichiers raw accentués

merci de votre écoute

 

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3 replies

Participant
August 10, 2024

I would also like to have a better solution. Allow me an option to easily delete the original raw files IF I WANT TO. give me a prompt that says, "Would you like to delete the original raw files? Are you Sure? This cant be undone, These are your original raw files and the AI Noise reduced files are not. Would you still like to delete the original raw files?" I would click YES.  

steflocomat
Participant
August 10, 2024

Hello

Yes, that would be a very good idea

Thanks

Stéphane Amelinck Photographe

GoldingD
Legend
August 9, 2024

Because the DNG file that LrC created upon AI Denoise is not the original file. You cannot (and I just tested) take that resultant DNG photo and go backwards on the AI DeNoise.

 

If you no longer have the original, and you decide to run AI DeNoise again, but with different settings, You are out of luck

 

If you no longer have the original, and say the next LrC upgrade improves AI DeNoise so much that you would want to run it again, Out of luck.

 

Lets put AI DeNoise aside. What if you used a third party editor, for example DxO NIK 7 SilveEfex. You edited the original to be a very very nice Black and White photo. You are extremely happy with the resultant TIFF file. So you decide to delete the RAW file, heck it takes up space. Next month you decide you want a color version. Ooops, you are out of luck

 

The RAW conversion in Adobe Camera RAW, and within the similar code in LrC, The various features in LrC like Ai DeNoise, AI masks, AI removal, keep evolving. If you delete the original RAW, then you cannot take advantage of any changes that could improve your work.

 

Those photos do not need to be on the same hard drive as your catalog. They do not need to be on a particular hard drive. Internal or external work. Various photos so not even have to be on the same hard drive, or same folder. And for the photos, the speed of the hard drive has little impact upon LrC performance, so cheaper, slower hard drives are Ok. And hard drives are not expensive.

 

 

 

 

GoldingD
Legend
August 9, 2024

Do you want to simply remove the RAW file from the catalog, or actually delete the RAW file from your computer?

 

As you stated you have a concern with file space, I assume you mean to actually delete the RAW File from the computer.

 

That is an extremely bad idea. RAW file conversions are always being improved, RAW file AI edits are always being improved. And your artistic decisions are probably always changing. No RAW file, no new edits, no new decisions. In the case of AI Denoise, One day a far better AI Denoise is introduced, but dang, you no longer have the original RAW file. AI Denoise is not going to reapply (properly) the DeNoise to the already converted file.

 

Having his button could lead to poor decisions upon the owners. Basically oops moments. I (if I could) would vote No. Adobe generally tries to avoid such options.

 

steflocomat
Participant
August 9, 2024

Hello, thank you for answering

But I don't think you understood my question: I don't want to delete the raw file I want to keep the raw file that was corrected by the IA noise

Why keep both? Why not give photographers a choice?

Stéphane Amelinck Photographe