How to Stop Lightroom From Disabling Filters After Running Denoise

Question

If I have starred my selection to edit in Lightroom and filter my selection by the star rating and then run denoise, after denoise completes the filtering is turned off and the full filmstrip expands. There's, however, little indication that filtering has been turned off. So if I advance after running denoise then I advance to a photo I have not starred and I waste time editing a photo I had not previously selected. Eventually I realize that it's not a photo I want and see that the filters have turn off. This is so poorly implemented. To continue working on the correctly starred photos, I must interrupt the editing I'm doing and reenable the star filters. There's no reason for disabling the filters when running denoise. Just put the old photo behind the new one as a stack and leave it at that. Please rework Lightroom's behavior so it stops disabling filters after running denoise.

johnrellis · Answer

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Lock the filters by clicking the lock icon:

When the filters are unlocked (the default), LR clears the filters to avoid the possibility that they may filter out the denoised DNG. For example, if you're filtering by file type Raw, then when the denoised DNG is imported, it wouldn't match the filter and would be hidden, confusing people.

"Just put the old photo behind the new one as a stack"

Not everyone wants the DNG to be added to a stack, and of those that do, most probably want the DNG to be on top of the stack, since it has the most recent edits of the photo.

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