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Jul 24, 2025 6:36 PM UTC
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Enhance Option in Lightroom

I have a MacBook Air (m3). I run Lightroom 8.4, fully up to date. In the old days, like a few weeks ago/maybe months I could load my photo, click on Photo, scroll to the bottom of that menu and there at the bottom was Enhance. It AI'd a new PNG to create a bigger file with detail filled in by AI. It's not there any more and I can't find anything that does the job instead. I click on Super Resolution, it appears to think about stuff for 20 secs and nothing discernably changes. The file size is still the same. Any guidance/ideas would be great. It was the best feature and it's gone!

 

Rikk Flohr-Retired
Rikk Flohr-RetiredCorrect answer
Jul 24, 2025 6:43 PM UTC

If you look at the Cropped Dimensions (Info Panel) before and after checking the Super Resolution option, you will see that the pixel dimensions have doubled. 

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Rikk Flohr-RetiredCorrect answer
Jul 24, 2025 6:43 PM UTC

If you look at the Cropped Dimensions (Info Panel) before and after checking the Super Resolution option, you will see that the pixel dimensions have doubled. 

 

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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Participant
Jul 24, 2025 7:12 PM UTC

Thanks Rikk for the quick reply. 

Interesting the dimensions appear to have doubled from roughly 2560 x 3840 to 5120 x 7680 which looks great but the file size stays as 1.81Mb

Thoughts?

 

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jul 24, 2025 7:22 PM UTC

Your file is still your file - untouched. The Edits contain the additional pixel data. If you export your Super Res'd file to a DNG and look at the DNG, you should see what I am talking about.  The DNG will be much bigger than your raw file. 

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