Denoise does not remain when switching to Photoshop

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June 26, 2025
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Hello everyone, have you updated Lightroom? they changed the denoise application mode and, after removing the noise, if I move the photo into Photoshop it doesn't keep the change 🥲 does it happen to you too? before the update, after applying denoise lightroom made a copy of the photo in DNG, now it doesn't anymore

I read online that you have to click on a new button at the top that tells you the AI changes made and click update, but even if I do that it still doesn't keep the change in photoshop 😭

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

What exactly do you mean with 'keep the change'? Denoise is now an edit like any other edits. If you send an image from Lightroom to Photoshop, then all edits are 'burned into the pixels' of the image that has been opened in Photoshop. That applies to denoise as well.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Madalina PhotographerAuthor

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with the new update, lightroom no longer creates a DNG file but inserts the denoise in the same image. When I open it from photoshop, it has not kept the applied denoise. I also tried to do "update" from the new AI button but still the denoise does not remain. I therefore have to export the photo, and then open it on photoshop but I waste a lot of time this way.

here you see that I've applied denoise

and here when I open it on photoshop

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

That is as expected. When you open an image from Lightroom in Photoshop, all edits (so including Denoise) will be applied to the pixels of that image. You will not see the edit sliders in Photoshop. If you want to be able to adjust the edits while in Photoshop, then you must use 'Open as smart object in Photoshop'. Then double clicking the smart object will open Camera Raw with the edits still being adjustable.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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