soon Super Resolution in LR and ACR

[cfransw]

From the ACR team: Super Resolution

I have some pictures ready for this !

[Bob Somrak]

I just tried this in ACR.  NICE!!!!

[D Fosse]

OK, so it's back to watching old CSI episodes...they knew all along, didn't they...

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[@MNiessenPhoto]

I never used enhance because there was absolutely no noticeable change 99.9% and I tested it on many pictures with different amounts of details. Very rarely, there was an almost imperceptible change. Not really an improvement, just a change.

But this Super Resolution in ACR is absolutely stunning! Can't wait to have it in Lightroom.

Michael

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Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator

[Jao vdL]

enhance works well in very limited circumstances where the Bayer array can cause artifacts. Otherwise it is useless: http://lagemaat.blogspot.com/2019/02/enhanced-details-and-what-kind-of.html Basically when you have edges between areas of predominantly red and blue. The new superresolution works really well with low noise images (i.e. landscapes or already downscaled images). Higher noise (think wildlife for example) it doesn't do as well as existing AI based software.

[D Fosse]

...but will it be possible to read a license plate from a pupil reflection? If not, I'm not interested 😄

But seriously, it might come in handy occasionally. In some cases, you just need generic detail, not specific detail, and it seems to do well there.

[DdeGannes]

Did some testing yesterday and this is certainly a game changer for my printing workflow.

For me this is the best feature introduced for quite some time. Congrats to the ACR team.

[@MNiessenPhoto]

Well... Lightroom Classic 10.2 is here, but without Super Resolution 😞

Michael

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Michael Niessen - Photographer, photo-editor, educator

[Ian Lyons]

Not yet, but it will be at some point in the future. In meantime, 10.2 can import Super Resolution DNG images created in Camera Raw

[F. McLion]

Its released in ACR 13.2 and publications said that it should be available in LR soon .... and it is not in 10.2 which shows 13.2 as ACR component version !?!

Very disapointing !

[@MNiessenPhoto]

That why I'm disappointed as well. Adobe said "soon" and not "in LrC 10.2", but I guess we're not the only ones who had assumed, or at least hoped, it would be in this version.

We can use ACR in the meatime, but it would be so much more convenient to have it in LrC. Let's just hope "soon" is not months away 😉

Michael

[D Fosse]

I kind of like that it's ACR only and not in Lightroom. It reinforces the point that this isn't something you should use uncritically. It's for a select few images that can really benefit.

Of course, it will soon be in Lightroom 10.2.1 or whatever, and then we'll be flooded with 15 000 pixel images... 😐