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daehxxiD
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June 10, 2023
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Filter on Status "Enhanced"

  • June 10, 2023
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Is there any way to filter on wheter a DNG is a Lightroom "Enhanced" DNG (i.e. with Noise Reduction applied) or not? I.e. is that info stored in some metadata that I could filter on?

 

Right now I am simply using the text filter on the file name, to filter out the enhanced images, but this feels like a bit of a workaround (i.e. filtering on "Enhanced" or "Verbessert", since I have Lightroom running in English and German).

 

If there is no facility like this availalable yet, perhaps we should start an idea to make this happen in a future update? 🙂

    Correct answer johnrellis

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    Adobe does store the enhancement type in metadata, and it's unfortunate that the current development team didn't have the confidence or knowledge to expose that as a filter or smart-collection criterion.  However, you can use the Any Filter plugin with the Enhance Type criterion to find enhanced photos:

     

    Any Filter also provides criteria Denoise Amount, Photo Merge Type, and Panorama Projection.

     

     

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    Digital Minerva
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    April 24, 2025

    There is now the option for filter by extension which included the enhance dng file extension

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    richardplondonCommunity Expert
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    June 10, 2023

    I would extend that idea - if I remember corrrectly not only Enhanced but also HDR and Pano DNGs cannot act as an input for the Enhance tool. Perhaps what one really wants to distinguish, is which images constitute camera original Raw data rather than part processed quasi-Raw data.

     

    I do appreciate some people like to convert all Raw files to DNG at import. I prefer though, to simply leave those in the proprietary Raw format of the camera. Which has a distinct file extension. Something to consider maybe.

     

    Thus, within my own Catalog, anything that's DNG, TIFF or anything else but the native Raw file extension (PEF in my case) I know has undergone processing: this is not camera original data.

     

    That means getting separate XMP sidecar files alongside, whenever LrC edits get written out: I regard this as a positive benefit, and not as any sort of problem. It is far more efficient for file backup, to only re-copy the changing XMP metadata each time - without re-copying all of the completely unchanging Raw data.

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    daehxxiDAuthor
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    June 10, 2023

    Keeping the orginals is definitely a good option, but they do consume a fair bit more space compared to the dngs, depending on the Camera manufacturer. I use sony and the compressed ARWs are still approx. 20% bigger than the DNG files that Lightroom creates. Also, I feel like Lightroom is snappier when it works with DNGs as compared to native RAW-Formats (also dependant on the camera manufacturer)

    johnrellis
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    Legend
    June 10, 2023

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    Adobe does store the enhancement type in metadata, and it's unfortunate that the current development team didn't have the confidence or knowledge to expose that as a filter or smart-collection criterion.  However, you can use the Any Filter plugin with the Enhance Type criterion to find enhanced photos:

     

    Any Filter also provides criteria Denoise Amount, Photo Merge Type, and Panorama Projection.

     

     

      DdeGannes
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      DdeGannesCommunity Expert
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      June 10, 2023

      There is a specific file name applied to the DNG file.

      See the screen capture.

       

      Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
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      daehxxiDAuthor
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      June 10, 2023

      Hi DdeGannes,

      yes, i know. Thanks for the heads-up 🙂 I've been using that to filter for the images, but as I mentioned in the OP, this is a bit hit-or-miss and feels like I'm working around something that should be implemented. LR puts that little three star symbol on every enhanced DNG, so it has some way of knowing that a DNG is enhanced. Why is there no specific filter for that?

       

      The "issue" I have with the filename filter is the following: Depending on the language in which LR is running, the filename will be different (e.g. "Enhanced-NR" in English, "Verbessert-RR" in German). While the "Contains" filter operator captures both, if I search for "enhanced verbessert", this doesn't quite feel as clean as a filter which allows me to just select "enhanced" photos by metadata.

      Jim Wilde
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      Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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      June 10, 2023

      I use the automatically-generated keywords to filter for enhanced files. That's an option on the Preferences (Settings on Ventura)>File Handling tab, do you have that enabled or disabled?

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