P: How do I batch edit Denoise (June Update) (LrC 14.4 & LrD 8.4)

[Billeba]

Lightroom Classic versjon: 14.4 
Operativsystem: Mac OS 15

As of this new version I am not able to denoise a batch of photos, only individual ones. Can't find any guidance as to how this can be fixed. Hope you can help me, thanks.

[Christopher24721037g8ke]

Thank you for the lovely tone of your contribution... I would have if my search had brought me to this thread. My question was moved here my the moderators from another post!

[Robmuc]

I have the following weird problem with regards to batch denoise function since the latest update: I am following the workflow of denoising one picture, then copy/pasting the edit settings to several other pictures I want to denoise. Everything looks like it is working normally during processing, but at the end the denoised pictures look like several pictures have been combined during the process (layers of objects from different pictures appear like pasted into the processed one) and the colors are completely off. An error message tells me to "update AI settings" on every single "denoised" picture and after doing so by clicking on ok processing starts again and everything looks fine afterwards for that picture. No batch processing is possible this way because I end up fixing each single picture individually anyways afterwards, aboslutely anyoing..

Anyone knows what is happening here and how to fix it?

Using Lightroom Desktop v8.4 on Windows 11.

[Jean-Claude24203667jzel]

Hello.

Avec la nouvelle mise à jour de Lightroom le débruitage par lot ne fonctionne plus, y a t-il une solution à ça svp?

Merci

[JohanElzenga]

Select all images, in Develop toggle the little switch to change 'Sync' to 'Auto Sync', then denoise the current image. Turn off 'Auto Sync' when you're done.

[Jean-Claude24203667jzel]

Merci beaucoup, en effet j'avais oublié de mettre la "synchro",  ça fonctionne bien. Merci

[Devani35087802lykz]

Hello,

I have seen the recent update of Lightroom Classic and already found an issue.  With the denoise feature, I see that the "denoise all" button was removed.  Now when I "select all" photos and click denoise, it will only apply to the specific photo instead of all.  This is causing extra time to be wasted with the editing process going one by one without the denoise all button.  Can this please be resolved?

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[GoldingD]

Right Panel, Bottom, do you have SYNC or Auto Sync selected?

[Devani35087802lykz]

I do have sync selected

[johnrellis]

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@Devani35087802lykz "I do have sync selected"

Do you have Auto Sync selected or do you mean something else?

I just verified these steps work in my LR 14.4 / Mac to denoise a batch of photos:

1. In Library, select the photos you want to denoise.

2. Go to Develop.

3. At the bottom of the right column, click the toggle next to the Sync... button:

It should now say Auto Sync:

4. In the Details panel, check Denoise.

5. Important: Toggle Auto Sync off.

* * * 

Auto Sync is dangerous -- many reports here of tears after people forgot to turn it off and accidentally managled many photos.

So click the Sync button instead to copy the settings

[Devani35087802lykz]

This is horrible honestly.  There was nothing wrong with the previous version.  Please revert back to the old denoise feature as that was way more productive than this update.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[seanson28]

Did you ever use the previous version of AI Denoise?  It was an exponentially easier interface, and there was zero need to change it. This version's issue isn't that we don't know HOW to use it, but becuase it won't complete the process in the background, holding your other Lr tasks hostage until it finishes. Atrocious. 

[helena_valverde2609]

I’m extremely frustrated with the recent change that removed the ability to apply the Denoise AI feature to multiple photos at the same time in Lightroom Classic. This has seriously disrupted my workflow. 

This update adds hours to my editing process and makes it much harder to deliver work on time.

Please reconsider this change and bring back the ability to apply Denoise to multiple images simultaneously. This feature was crucial for many of us who rely on Lightroom Classic for professional work.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@helena_valverde2609  Please read the Pinned Post on this thread. It explains how to this. 

[Commodore_65]

How do I go back to the previous version of LR?  I’ll take a separate DNG vs 10X lost time due to the new "non-destructive enhance / denoise enhancement" in Version 8.4.  This is not ready for primetime.  It takes 2 hours to do 10 minutes worth of work.  "Denoising" the old way took 30 seconds max and that was ONE TIME!  The old denpoising has been traded for continuously refreshing / updating "AI Settings".  Exporting photos and you get a cryptic message that a photo “MAY” be exported down-res, which really means AI wasn’t refreshed prior to export.  And LR now locks up a lot and I have to KILL -7 (Force Quit).   Did a product manage think the benefits of not having to deal with a separate DNG was that big of a deal?  AND that the trade-off was going to be worth it?  I just deleted the RAW after running denoise and keep the DNG. Boom, problem solved. This tradeoff is BRUTAL and is not realistic. The application is LOCKED during an AI Refresh that takes FOREVER.  I’m running a MBP Apple M2 Max with 12 Cores, 38 GPU Cores, 96 GB Memory 8 TB eMLC SSD.   Refreshing “AI Settings” is a SERIAL process only?  And the refresh has to be initiated by the user ONE PHOTO AT A TIME and wait for iot to complete before moving on to the next photo?  Is there a way to do a multiselect in the square grid layout (like there was many other functions) such that more than a single photo’s AI settings be refreshed?  Is there a way to batch process refreshing “AI Settings” across many photos?

[Jo_Gryniewicz]

I've called them and been informed that the new update means that in many cases you need to update the drivers on your graphics card - I did but it doesn't seem to have helped. This said, I re-installed the previous version by going to my Abobe Creative Cloud window, clicking on the 3 dots next to Lightroom and you can choose to install a previous version - I had several thousands of pics to denoise so I was quite happy I could go back! 

[ronb2]

You can install a prior version of Lightroom with the instructions here: https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/apps/download-install-apps/creative-cloud-apps/install-prev...

And I agree that the new process is quite atrocious and similarly have had to rollback to 14.3.1 myself. There's another thread for requesting reversion or backgrounding of the denoising process that you can find on Ideas board here if you'd like to contribute: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-bring-back-the-ability-of-enhance-to-create...

[drtonyb]

I did some batch Denoise testing (timing) in LrC 14.3.1 and 14.4 using the same set of NEF photos (from my Nikon D750).

Time to Denoise 100 photos:

LrC 14.3.1 took 21m 14.26s = 1274.26s or 12.7426s per photo

LrC 14.4 took 18m 5.63s = 1085.63s or 10.8563s per photo

So I now know which Denoise method is faster, on my PC at least. Roughly 15% faster.

However, this doesn't help the fact that LrC 14.4 is locked up while doing any Enhance (or for that matter setting Adaptive Color) or that adjusting the Denoise Amount slider for a selection of more than one photo is a complete disaster (extremely bad code design - BUG). These issues need to be addressed promptly.

[visionsbytiago]

Hi Adobe!

First of all, I want to say thank you for the non-destructive Enhance/Denoise update in Lightroom 8.4 - it’s a great idea and definitely useful for keeping file management simple.

That said, I’m really missing the ability to batch process images using the Enhance features like Denoise or Super Resolution. In previous versions, I could select multiple RAW files and apply these enhancements all at once. Now, having to manually enable it photo by photo through the Detail panel is significantly slowing down my workflow, especially when working with large sets of images.

Copying and pasting settings works to some extent, but it’s not as efficient or reliable as proper batch support. It would be amazing to have both options: the new non-destructive workflow and the possibility to batch apply Enhance across multiple photos — even if that means creating DNGs again.

Hope this is something you can consider bringing back. Thanks for listening!

Best regards,
Tiago

[Eduardo_Elia5748]

La nuova versione non permette di regolare l'intensità del denoise se non in un secondo passo. Ciò richiede il doppio del tempo impiegato nella versione precedente. Un NOGO assoluto. Anzichè migliorare non avete fatto altro che peggiorare il tutto. Vi prego di ripristinare la vecchia versione, almeno per quanto riguarda il denoise di più fotogrammi contemporaneamente.

[Rob35987228q0u2]

"Detail" in LRC has changed, is this an upgrade or an internal error. No more Denoise button, no more enhanced, no more newly created "enhanced NR.dng". I was using LRC for years and was really happy with the setup...LOL. was a change necessary?

[Słowik inspiruje]

Hot to batch process denoise images in Lightroom 14.4?

[MykelBoachie]

It appears this ability went away in the new update

[Anne38850530u0fy]

Yes, indeed. I called Adobe and they are looking into it. They are
supposed to call me back in a few hours.

Anne

[Lexi98]

Have you heard anything? Was going to try and edit photos tomorrow on a plane but will not bring my laptop if they won't be fixing the issue before the weekend. 

[Anne38850530u0fy]

I missed their call but will call them back in about 1 hour!