P: Bring back the ability of Enhance to run in the background. (LrC)

@owen-b 

Thank you for the insights into your professional workflow.

I do agree that Adobe has failed to appreciate the impact this change has had on batch processing as expressed by many others here. It is disappointing that nothing has been done to address the problem. At the very least, the previous DNG method could have been reinstated as an option. The worst of it is that Adobe is silent on the matter. There is no indication that the current situation will ever change and I fear that could do some serious damage to the Adobe brand.

@drtonyb Event photographer here. In dark venues t's not unusual for my entire set of 150+ edited photos to have been shot in, say, ISO 6400 - 12800. Even if the whole set isn't like that, for events at night a significant number of them will be. The new version of this feature is utterly unsuitable for a professional workflow, it's mindblowing that they okayed this. 

Previous LRC Denoise would show you a preview of the slider position, then when you confirmed it would run in the background and you could get on with other stuff in LRC, whether that was catalog tidying or culling or even other edits. As an event and wedding photographer this was amazing - I'd do my edits, select the ones that need cleaning up, start the Denoise then get on with some other stuff in LRC. 

Now it doesn't show a preview, and it renders LRC completely unusable until it's finished. These are both bad user experiences but the latter is an AWFUL choice. 

Now when you start Denoise on a batch on images I have to watch the progess indicator work its way through and the entire interface is locked up. Can't even go to the Lightroom menu to check what version I have for this post, because it's halfway through a 150-photo Denoise session. 

Truly, honestly, an awful choice for professional event and wedding photographers who will use this in batch mode almost exclusively. Yes, I can go and do something else entirely but it's extending my workflow by hours where the previous version didn't.

I'm not rolling back, it sounds like too much hassle, but I sincerely hope this new version is changed back to how it used to work.

But still blocking everything else

I find this very helpful and you do get to see the effects of the non-AI features which are pasted. I would like to be able to tell light room to reorder all the files that I have done in a session as a back process when I finish that session it doesn't seem to be an option. A batch process. Could it be added?

If it's just 5 pictures from a shoot that needs denoising, it's so much nicer to have that done in the background, so one can continue working on those that do not need this. Having to wait for each one by one makes the workflow so much longer.

@drtonyb its not that every image needs to be denoised, but often we do batch edits and all selects from this scene/set will get edited, then start the denoise process while you move on to the next scene to do batch edits, rinse and repeat. Can't do that if LR has your UI on lockdown.

Afterwards, you do further edits on a hero image or two from each set to refine it specifically.

@DHW Photography 

How has your Smart Collections been broken by the new Denoise?

Well I think it's now clear that Adobe wants to go down this route with the denoising method, all it's users be damned. I've mentioned before it's not just the lack of background processing that has damaged people's workflows, it's the whole change of method. I've spent years honing use of smart collections in my workflow and this change breaks all of that. So far I've yet to find a suitable solution as the criteria for building a smart collection isn't specific enough, so I'll be sticking to 14.3 until my subscription is up for renewal later in the year. 

Not being a Pro photographer myself, I would like to understand from those who are why all photos from a shoot, which could be thousands, need to be Denoised. Surely only a fraction of the photos shot will be used, so most will not need denoising.

If I were such a photographer using the 'spray and hope' method, I would not waste any of my time on those images that didn't make the grade. I do sometimes shoot astro at high ISO, but I do not denoise all my shots; only those few that are worth processing further.

Any enlightenment would be welcome.