P: No longer can run Enhance > Super Resolution on JPEGs, TIFFs, & PSDs converted from Denoise

[rreitzammer]

LrC 14.3 Release Enhance no longer allows me to use Enhance Super-Resolution on TIFF files. Before upgrading to 14.3, I was able to convert a DNG file to TIFF and then apply Enhance Super-Resolution to the TIFF file.  What changed? Was that a "bug" that was fixed, because I really liked that "bug".

[Jason_Garnett7321]

Enhanced batch worked perfectly fine until around 2 weeks ago, all my apps are upto date, computer was running the app with no issues. Can I solve this ??? un installed, flattened and rebuilt mac, re installed, still the same. costing me many hours extra in processing now.

[JohanElzenga]

Nothing changed as far as I can tell. I can still use Super Resolution on a TIFF file in Lightroom Classic 14.3 on my Mac.

[CMass]

@rreitzammer, 

I am able to confirm what @JohanElzenga. I tested it out on my end and was still able to use Super Resolution on a tiff in Lightroom Classic 14.3. Can you share more about what you're seeing? A screen recording and/or error message would be helpful for us to troubleshoot on our end. Please also share what your OS version is. 

^CM

[rreitzammer]

Hi, thanks for responding! I am using macOS Sequoia 15.4.1. I should also mention that I was using Enhance Denoise on an NEF file, creating a DNG. Then, I was able to convert the DNG file to TIFF. It used to let me use Super Resolution on the TIFF I created. Now, I get an error when trying to convert the TIFF. I am not sure what changed. Maybe there is a better way to do this?

[JohanElzenga]

How did you convert the DNG to TIFF?

[rreitzammer]

When I choose "EDIT IN," I select one of my NIC Collection apps. The app creates a TIFF file to which I can apply effects. I cancel the NIC app after the TIFF file is created. Before the last LrC update, I was allowed to apply Super-Resolution to the TIFF file. (I attached the settings that I used to create the TIFF file.)  I know it is a weird way to go about it. It used to work, but now I am getting the error. 

[JohanElzenga]

Try using 'Edit in Photoshop'. You don't have to make any edits in Photoshop, but do use 'Save' so Photoshop saves the file as TIFF (make sure TIFF is set in the External Editor preferences). I tested a TIFF created with Photoshop and that worked as expected.

[ExUSA]

I'm seeing the same thing, the previous version allowed Super Resolution on PSD files as well.

My workflow for older files is:

Enhance noise reduction

Open the resulting dng

Save as PSD

Enhance SR

Retouch that second dng file.

This has worked well for the thousands of older lower-res RAW files I have (Sony A100, A700 especially.) Now, SR enhance is greyed out. EXIFTool shows that Enhance NR has been applied but nothing about SR.

FWIW, If you use the Technology Preview in ACR to enhance RAW files without creating a dng, this whole workflow has been broken for a while.

[ExUSA]

This is what broke for me, I've been using this method which worked for both PSD and TIFF and now doesn't work for either.

[ExUSA]

See my post below please.

[JohanElzenga]

I'll try tomorrow if Denoise has anything to do with it. The TIFF I tested was not from a denoised DNG, but from a raw file edited in Photoshop to remove some wires. I would think that this doesn't matter, because a TIFF is a TIFF, regardless of how it was created, but you never know. Maybe some metadata stop Lightroom using SR. In the meantime, did you know that Photoshop has a super resolution option among its neural filters? Perhaps you could switch to using that until a fix is found.

[drtonyb]

Edit a NEF in Photoshop and save back as a TIFF; I can Super Res the TIFF, but I cannot Denoise it.

Edit a Denoise DNG in Photoshop and save back as a TIFF; I cannot Super Res the TIFF, which I have done in a past version of LrC. This was a suggested work around given to me by Eric Chan when Denoise first appeared.

Edit a Super Res DNG in Photoshop and save back as a TIFF; I cannot Denoise the TIFF.

So, something has changed for the worse, at least on my Windows 11 PC.

[JohanElzenga]

Number one and number three are as expected. You never could AI Denoise a TIFF. You should be able to use Super Resolution on a TIFF however (and you confirm you still can do that if the TIFF is not created from a denoised DNG), so if that is no longer possible if the TIFF was created from a denoised DNG, then that indeed has changed. I assume Lightroom reads in the metadata that the TIFF was produced from denoised pixels, so maybe stripping the metadata might be a solution. Or use the super resolution option in Photoshop's neural filters.

[johnrellis]

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LR 14.3 broke the ability to run Enhance > Super Resolution on JPEGs, TIFFs, and PSDs converted from Denoise DNGs. To reproduce:

1. Download and uncompress this catalog:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pjgor4z28ferupglumyjm/super-resolution-bug.2025-05-03.zip?rlkey=opc65...

It contains a raw, a DNG created by Denoise from that raw, and JPEGs, TIFFs, and PSDs converted from the DNG two ways, using LR's Export and using LR's Edit In Photoshop.  The files have perspicuous names (see the table below).

One of the TIFFs, test-Enhanced-NR-export-stripped.tif, has had these two metadata fields removed using Exiftool: 

XMP:EnhanceDetailsAlreadyApplied

XMP:EnhanceDenoiseAlreadyApplied

2. Open the catalog in LR 14.2.

3. Select each of the JPEGs, TIFFs, and PSDs in turn and observe that Enhance > Super Resolution is available (not greyed out).

4. Open the catalog in LR 14.3.

5. Select each of the JPEGs, TIFFs, and PSDs and observe that Enhance > Super Resolution is greyed out, with the message "Enhance cannot be applied on the selected photo".  Two exceptions are the files not containing the XMP fields described in step 1, test-Enhanced-NR-export-stripped.tif and test-Enhanced-NR-ps.jpg. (Photoshop's Export As command always strips nearly all metadata from exported JPEGs.)

Here's a summary comparing the availability of Super Resolution in LR 14.2 and 14.3:

[johnrellis]

@Rikk Flohr: Photography, please consider moving this thread to Bugs. My previous post provides a detailed recipe for reproducing the problem:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lrc-enhance-no-longer-allows-super-reso...

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Thank you for the report @rreitzammer  and the repro steps, @johnrellis. I've logged a ticket to look into this. 

[ExUSA]

The workaround is to use SR via Camera RAW. Run Denoise on the original RAW, open the DNG and save to TIFF, open the TIFF via Bridge into ACR, run SR enhance. This works as long as the Technology Preview that doesn't create a separate DNG is not enabled.

[Traffik The Photographer]

I've been having the same issue ever since these last2 updates and now it is disrupting my work flow. If someone knows how to solve this issue please post. 

[rreitzammer]

For now, my workaround is to edit the Denoised DNR in Photoshop and use the SuperZoom neural filter with 2x zoom. I've been experimenting with the SuperZoom controls to get the results I like. I process it as a New Layer, deleting to original layer. Then I save it back to LrC as a TIFF or PSD. I just have to remember it is super ZOOM not Super Resolution. The results are great and works for my needs. The workflow is not too bad. 

[JohanElzenga]

You can make it Super Resolution by outputting to a new file, not a new layer. A filter cannot increase the size of an existing image, that is why it is super zoom if you output to the same image file. A filter can create a new image however, without any restrictions to the size.

[rreitzammer]

Thanks Johan! I'll play around with it. A lot of my work is enlarging the subject within the image, so Zoom is working for that. However, there are some images I do need to enlarge, so I will try that! I appreciate your help!

[roberto_6968]

SUPER RESOLUTION fuction does not work wit tiff files . it worked until a few days ago

[Nick Walker]

Lightroom V14.3.1 - After applying Denoise I can no longer use Lightroom's Super Resolution feature on a Tiff file saved in Photoshop from the denoised DNG file.

[ExUSA]

The workaround is to open the TIFF in Camera RAW with Bridge or Photoshop.

[Traffik The Photographer]

Will there been an update soon because it's been 20+ days already and I've gotten an update for all the other adobe software since then.