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P: Allow filters to stay selected after enhancing

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May 7, 2023
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When using the denoise or enhance features, it would be great if the filters selected in the Develop module would continue to stay selected.

Currently, if I have a set of filters - like hiding rejected images, or specific color tags - and then decide to enahnce or denoise an image, whenever Lightroom finishes processing, it resets all of my filters back to showing everything.

If I've already rejected an image - or 100 - I clearly don't want to see them, and don't want to have to keep clicking the desired filter after every single enhancing/denoising process, just to get rid of the clutter. Sometimes, I can batch enhance or denoise, but other times I need to do it one at a time , and repeating this process for 100-200 images, for example, wastes a lot of time and is incredibly annoying.

Correct answer johnrellis

When using AI denoise, the filter is forgotten.
Hop to reproduce:
Mark a few images as "picked". Set filter "flagged" so only these images is shown. Use AI desnoise on one of those images.

Expected result:
The filter should still be in place after the AI denoise is done.

Actual result:
The filter is forgotten and all images in the collection are shown.

@Holten: "When using AI denoise, the filter is forgotten."

See the correct answer above for how to stop that:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-allow-filters-to-stay-selected-after-enhancing/m-p/13779605#M321876

EsTaF

Inspiring

Hi all
The program has functionality for filtering material by rating. We can assign each photo a specific rating, from one to five, and then filter the works, eliminating material with a low rating.
For example, I have works with a rating equal to one and so on.
I filter out the material by adjusting the filter so that photos with a rating equal to or greater than two are displayed.
But when I use the noise reduction tool, the filter is reset and I have to go back to the library every time, setting everything up again.
This feature appears in any version of the program.
How to deal with such disgrace?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Click the little padlock in the upper right corner of the filter bar.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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bbyface

Participant

I often run AI Denoise on an entire folder of 50-100 at once, after a pass of using flags to make my selects. However, each time a new DNG is created, the flag filter turns off.

This is a problem for me as I would like to be able to edit in a different folder while the AI Denoise is running (as it sometimes will take 15 mins to complete a whole folder), without having to skip over shots I have already rejected. I don't delete my rejects until I'm finished editing an album, so it would be really useful to be able to have the flag filters stay on.

My workflow involves a lot of folders for very different clients that I have to edit with very quick turnaround, so this would be a lifesaver!

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-allow-filters-to-stay-selected-after-enhancing/td-p/13775823

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bbyface

Participant

Thankyou!

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Jacob269107324tje

Participant

A big portion of my editing workflow is to mark all trash images as rejected with the rejected flag. Then when it comes to editing what's left, I filter my library by flags where no flag is present. This still works fine.

However, after using the new AI denoise feature, the new denoised dng is created with the same flag/color/rating status as the original. But, when this new file is created, it resets my filter status.

This has meant that every time I denoise a file, I have to go back and reset the filter I'm using so I only see the images I care about. It would be fantastic if an update can be made so that adding the new denoised file doesn't clear filters so that I can keep editing smoothly.

I'm using Lightroom Classic 13.0.2 on windows.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This question is often asked and answered. By default, any action that creates a new file resets the filter. The reason is that otherwise the new file could be filtered out (for example if you filtered on raw files), which would cause great confusion. People would think nothing happened. If you do not want the filter to reset, then click the little padlock in the upper right corner of the filter bar.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Jacob269107324tje

Participant

I was wondering if that's the reason. I didn't know about the lock feature to prevent this from happening though. Thanks for the quick and helpful reply!

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AJ Ford

Participating Frequently

Lightroom Classic version: 13.0.1 [ 202310121438-d2af310c ]

Windows 11 Home 10.0.22621 Build 22621

Step 1 Choose a folder with 3 or more photos, and with at least one photo marked as rejected
Step 2 In Library module, set Attribute Library Filter to only show Flag & Unflagged Photos
Step 3 Select a photo
Step 4 Go to Develop module, and apply AI Denoise filter. (which is AWESOME, THANK YOU!)
Step 5 Go to Library module, and note that The Attribute Library Filter is no longer applied (the rejected photo is shown)

Expected result: Lightroom Classic should maintain Library Filter settings when applying Denoise.
Actual result: Lightroom Classic sets Library Filter to "None".

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This is as designed. Lock the filter:

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Thanks --- that's definitely a workaround --- since the Filter gets
deactivated without leaving the "Develop" module, it seems like unexpected
behavior to me.

I would expect any actions performed in the Develop module to not trigger a
"change source" (which is how I think the filter lock is designed).

Either way... I will definitely do that from now on.

This is actually very logical behavior. Denoise AI creates a new file (DNG), which could be filtered out if you filtered on proprietary raw files, for example. That would be very confusing! That is why any action that adds a file will cause filters to reset, unless you lock them and show that you know what you are doing.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Nature Light

Inspiring

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. After upgrade to new version 13 of LR Classic, when I use the attribute filter to limit images to only those with a zero rating, then create an HDR, or, use a third party plugin, when that process is done, all images of all star ratings are displayed. The attirbute filter has been turned off and I must once again set to rating = 0.

johnrellis

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Click the lock icon to lock the filters:

johnrellis

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Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-allow-filters-to-stay-selected-after-enhancing/m-p/13775823

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Adriaan_S

Inspiring

The Photo Merge features in LRC is great except for one detail: it turns off the filters (both the Library filter at the top of the screen, which in my case I had set to a specific Date) and the filter at the bottom, just above the film strip (which I had set to Flagged and Unflagged photos). Every time I use the Photo Merge, I have to manually re-enable both of them afterwards. This happens both with HDR and Panorama options.

My request is for the Photo Merge to automatically re-enable these when used, after it is done processing. This will save me time.

Info: I am using LRC 12.4 on Windows 11.

Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

johnrellis

Legend

See the correct answer at the top of this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-allow-filters-to-stay-selected-after-enhancing/m-p/13775823

christianb21646510

Participant

Hi everyone, after I selected my pictures (flag, color code, stars) I filter them and start to edit. When I use the new Denoise AI function, the new file gets created and the whole filters gets cleared, although the new file has the same selection marks as the older one.

So I have to reselect the filters. Can this be prevented so that I don't always have to reselect the filters?

TIA C

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Not that I know. It always does that in the current version. The idea is to prevent the new images from being filtered out by the set filter, so it always disables it. Incredibly annoying indeed but I am guessing this is on purpose because there were lots of people complaining that the new image never made it back into Lightroom from enhance, photoshop, etc. where the only thing wrong was that a filter prevented the returning image from being shown.

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Hans Dieter30944992w766

Participant

When using the AI Denoise a copy of the orignal image is created and inserted as a stack.
Afterwards the previous selecton of images to work on (in via library, attributes) is disabled and all images are shown in the bottom row. This is bad because my workflow relies on doing a preselection of images and then edit only those. If I use AI Denoise regularly it will break the selection each time. Editing steps should not change which images are selected.

Lightroom Classic-Version: 12.4 [ 202306052221-b70c0975 ]
Windows 10 - Business Edition Version: 10.0.19045

Steps to reproduce:

-go to Library and filter images (e.g. filter for all images with Attribute "flaged")

-go to Develop (only flagged images are shown in the selection below)

-for one image use AI Denoise (wait for completion)

Expected result:

-the result is added as a copy (because attributes are copied it should be shown) but the selection should not change

Actual result:

-all images (even non flaged) are shown. filter attribute has to be manually reselected

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

This is not a bug, but as designed. Any action that creates a new image (Denoise, Edit in Photoshop, Merge to HDR or Panorama) will reset the filter, to make sure that the new image is not filtered out and causes confusion because of it. If you do not want that, then lock your filter. Click the padlock in the right corner of the filter bar.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Hans Dieter30944992w766

Participant

Thanks, clicking the lock worked.

I never encountered the problem before because the other options that create new images are not really tools that I would use for a lot of images in a row. Since AI Denoise is now part of the "regular" development process it's good to know that you have to check the filter lock.

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bardi3

Participating Frequently

Hi, i have a problem. When creating an ai denoise file, it disables the red label filter for me. Is there any way to fix this? I work on files filtered with a red label ... after denoising im going to the next photo, unfortunately, during work, lightroom turn off the filters when generating a dng file is complete .... help me, please

windows11, rtx3060, the latest version of lightroom classic

dj_paige

Legend

It is my observation that whatever filter you have created and applied via the Filter Bar, creating new AI Denoised photos turns off the filter. I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I really can't think of a reason why this would be desired behavior. You could, after de-noising, press Ctl-L to return to the filter.

You could select all of the desired photos and denoise them in one batch.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

It's designed behavior, and for a good reason. Any action that creates a new file (edit in photoshop, denoise, hdr, panorama) resets the filter, because too often people did not realise that their filter would hide this new file (because they filtered on raw, for example) and so they complained that the new file was not created or not added to the catalog. Simply lock the filter before you denoise and it will work as desired.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Victoria30648229efen

Participant

Issue: When I have my photos filtered on Flagged, then use denoise, LRC ( most up to date version) removes all filters so I then have to go back, refilter to flagged, and go to the next image.

What it shoud do - denoise shouldn't impact the filter settings of the images

What it does do - resets all filters so all images come back