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January 29, 2025
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Export from raw without redundant files?

  • January 29, 2025
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Is it possible to export from raw, with denoise added, without the redundant file? I don't really need the non denoised file. It just complicates my file management. 

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D Fosse
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January 29, 2025

Actually, there's a new "technology preview" in ACR. Check this, and you can Denoise without having to create a separate DNG. It will come to Lightroom when ready.

Bojan Živković11378569
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January 29, 2025

As already explained, the short answer is NO!

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January 29, 2025

As fas as I understand your question right you're denoising a image in Camera Raw.

In this case a separate linear .DNG file will be create. 

The original file without denoiing must be delete manually. 

But, I would keep the original though, as denoising is destructive and cannot be undone. 

 

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Chris3000Author
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January 29, 2025

Delete manually, is what I'm trying to avoid. And. I have the original raw files safe and sound somewhere, so it just makes more work for people this way.

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January 29, 2025
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Delete manually, is what I'm trying to avoid.

 

By @Chris3000

 

There's no other possibility at the moment.

It seems that there's a solution in the future as @D Fosse wrote.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI