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June 19, 2025

P: Lightroom Paste Settings with Denoise creates color artifacts & pink overlays

  • June 19, 2025
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Hi,

Bug 1)  I've been running into this issue for a couple weeks now.  Whenever I copy edit settings, it'll paste fine onto one image, but if I try to paste onto another image, it does nothing.

Bug 2)  I also tried pasting onto multiple images at once and it turned a bunch of them weird colors until I let them update AI settings.  I think it might have something to do with the denoise features, TBH.

The attached green image is after pasting settings, but before updating AI.  Normal looking image is after updating AI.

-Matt

Edit:  I'd like to note that Bug 1 is intermittent.  I'd say it's like 1 in every 3 times I copy settings.  Sometimes it'll paste an infinite number of times, others I get one paste and I'm done.

13 replies

Participant
August 21, 2025

Lightroom Version: 8.5

Mac OS: Sequoia Version 15.6.1

 

I often want to denoise a few hundred images overnight and then actually edit them the next day, a workflow that's always worked pretty well with Lightroom until recently.

 

Following the 8.4 update (and now continuing even after the 8.5 update I had hoped would patch the issue), every time I try to apply denoise by copying settings and pasting them to more than one image, the process fails for the majority of the images. After the process runs for a while, they wind up with some pink or green error artifact, and a warning dialog saying that I need to update AI settings.

It usually works fine once I click the "Update All" button in the dialog box, but it then takes a minute or so to re-do that image's denoise process. This renders the attempted batch run pointless, since I still have to manually click through each of the failed images to update their AI settings.

I've seen quite a few people mentioning this issue elsewhere. Is there a plan to fix it in the next update, or should those of us who regularly use batch de-noising in our workflow just plan on rolling back to version 8.3.1 for the forseeable future?

Ervins G.
Known Participant
September 25, 2025

I'm experiencing the exact same issue. Have you found a workaround?

Participant
September 26, 2025

This workaround from Rikk seems to avoid the issue.

Community Manager
July 11, 2025

Hi @matthew_5332, thanks for reaching out.

Could you share your System Info? You can find it in Lightroom under Help > System Info. Just copy the info to a text file and attach it to your response, or share it with us through Google Drive, WeTransfer, or another file-sharing platform.
Thanks a lot! 😊

Alek

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Known Participant
July 11, 2025

@Aleke Here ya go!  I had the GPU enabled at the time this happened.

Known Participant
September 3, 2025

Hi @matthew_5332,

 

Thanks for following up. The pink/magenta look you’re seeing after copy-pasting is not file corruption. It happens because AI Denoise needs to generate unique results for each photo. When you paste settings, Lightroom copies the instruction but still requires each image to reprocess AI, which is why you need to update AI on them individually.

 

If you’d like to avoid this, we recommend leaving Denoise unchecked when copying settings from "the Photo menu > Choose Edit Settings to copy." Instead, apply AI Denoise directly to the images you want enhanced. This ensures each file processes correctly without showing pink placeholders.

 

Best,

Anshul Saini


Hey Anshul,

 

I saw some other threads have been merged.  I just want to double check that this issue isn't considered resolved.

 

Forcing users to use non-default copy settings, otherwise they have to go one by one through every pasted photo to update AI.  That's not realllllllllllly a suitable solution.

Participant
June 19, 2025

Some photos become pink after using AI denoise on multiple photos in the latest version of Lightroom CC. Need to go and update AI in all of these to get rid of it. 

Claire H.
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 19, 2025

Hi @vlachjn, Welcome to the Lightroom Community forum! To better help you with this issue, we would like a few more details. Can you send your system info, a screen recording of your issue, and a numbered list of the exact steps needed to replicate the issue? You can find your system info by going to Help > System Info, copying and pasting it into a text file, and attaching it here. Thanks! ^CH