I have an older D7200 so usually I don’t go above 3200, very rarely I might…might go to 6400. I think I did that once. I have used auto iso during a Supercross event and I am not sure, without going into the metadata, what the camera did.
With my Sony A7 IV, I used to never go above 3200. With the new AI noise reduction tool from Lightroom, I can now go at 6400 without any issues. Love it!
Ive already tested this a lot and from what i can say : high iso shots that went through lightrooms denoise ai most of the time look just the same ( often even better ) as base iso shots ( though base iso can have some noise in it aswell ) - the only problem is, when there are very small faces and a lot of noise (and i mean really small like for example fotos of people that are in the background of an image ), because then the ai very often does not know how to render these parts and it does something scary to the faces.. but nothing they cannot fix with some better face recognition
@@alessiobartolotti318 Thank you for testing this for us! I'm too casual a photographer to upgrade from the old Lightroom 6, but it's cool to see how this technology is evolving.
Did this, absolute game changer tbh. Was scared to shoot over 3k iso but now I can get away with 25600 and no issues. Just careful with detail though, cause the ai over does it if you yeet the slider to 100%
Mark. Your content is quite remarkable, and so are your style, presentation, narration and voice. You seem to be such a nice guy who genuinely likes to help and share knowledge and skills. Thank you so much for what you publish on this superb channel. So helpful.
The noise reduction tool looks amazing and almost inexplicable how it works so efficiently after having a picture taken by the sensor of the camera with fairly good amount of megapixel content on the sensor already capable of producing low noise level even at a high iso level! The amazing fact is that every pixel when exposed to light has already captured light from the different areas of a scene having uneven light reflected from each areas of the scene and these areas on the sensor have pixels of different light content giving the all the latitudes of light contained in each pixel of the entire sensor area and as it's known to us that pixels have capacities to contain light to the level of highest iso level and the more light they capture the more exposed they're to the amount of light they could hold in them! The grains of flims did the same work but the difference with the pixels remains in the fact that pixels when overly exposed cannot be made to dodge to reduce the exposures to the desired level which is unlike the grains of an emulsion of a celluloid film and on the contrary the pixels have the hidden light contained when under exposed and you can easily crank up the exposure in the areas of under exposure to bring out the detail in those low exposed pixels areas but to much of enhancing brings about the noise out of the pixels' incapacity to hold the brightness at a very higher level! Now, I don't know, how this has been curbed by post processing is astonishing me and I'm very curious to know if this is for the different form of medium like that of the clarity of the screen of the monitor on which the post processing is being done has an advantage over the noise which comes after a picture has been made or the credit goes only to the software? In the end I appreciate the picture you chose to reduce the noise level not because of the reason but because of it's overall visual appeal of the scene and I liked the steps of stones looks very naturally moistened peculiar to the place and the leading pathway made all the way up to the mysterious background of the foggy vail is a treat to the eye! I want more of your valued techniques as I know nothing of the post processing technique! On the other side I'm stunned by images Mads Peter Ivans presents in his epic tours of picturesque landscapes with Nigel and James and sometimes with others and alone too! You people are so inspiring!
You solved a problem for me. I didnt realise denoise could only be used on raw files. I only shoot raw, but I imported a lightroom image i did earlier and denoise didnt work, then I realised the processed raw image becomes JPEG, when exported so denoise wouldnt touch it. Really excellent tutorial. You really bring home just how good this new denoise feature. I have an old laptop, i upgraded to be able to use Lightroom Classic, but still takes an anoying lenghth of time to process ! But the results are spectacular. Thanks.
For action shots, I started using more and more Auto ISO (after setting my shutter speed very high to capture action, and the f stop around f8 to get more in focus). Sometimes that results din ISO's between 3200 and 6400. I was using Topaz Noise AI to manage the results, and it works quite well, but is an extra step in my LR workflow. So it works but is usually cumbersome. Then when this LR Denoise AI tool became available, I tried it out and did some comparisons to Topaz AI on some higher ISO action shots I had. The Topaz tool might be very slightly better quality under a pixel microscope, but boy is the workflow so much easier using the LR tool. So I have stopped using Topaz and now only use LR Noise AI and will probably never look back. And I also thought I was seeing some better color and sharpening when using this Noise AI tool inside LR, but I was thinking that couldn't possibly be happening, right? Glad to see you confirm what I was seeing. Thanks! :)
Thanks so much for helping me to realise my LRC had not auto-updated, and was therefore running on an earlier version, pre-noise reduction! Had to reload Creative Cloud before I could get anything to update. Now looking forward to testing NR on some of my library pics...
As always, I learn something from your videos. I've been using the new tools in LRc but have yet to notice what the little eye icons did. I also learned that the denoise feature could be adjusted. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Your videos are absolutely amazing! I feel like I’m sitting in your living room with you, while you’re showing me stuff on your computer! Very very comfortable, which is a good thing because now I feel like I can go and do this! Thank you again for your knowledge!
It takes like 4-5 mins on my fast computer to process a Sony A7 IV file but WHEN IT DOES. Wowzers! I will be doing this to all my stock images from now on. It really is impressive.
Well, let me tell you...I do mostly stage photography--musicals, dance recitals, etc. I live at ISO 6400 with a lot of black in the backgrounds. The Lightroom Denoise is absolutely amazing for me. A revelation.
Agreed. We just shot a low light event held in a tent. I was able to clean up so many images with denoise. But you have to be careful with it as doing too much makes the AI component too obvious.
Agree I have been loving the color you target too with mask now .. there were so many times I wanted to effect color in the masked region but not the rest of the image 😊
Nice video. Thanks I always find your talks useful as a landscape photographer. I'm blown away with the new Denoise tool you spoke about. I do lots of photos in low light for sunrise and sunset, luckily in RAW format. Just in the past week I've recovered over 10 photos that I thought were lost due to noise. I was worried the Fuji XT4 might not have a large enough sensor for what I enjoy shooting the most, ie sunrise.. Problems solved! The Denoise feature on Lightroom has made the investment in LrC an easy choice and something that will improve my enjoyment in photography. A must have for any serious photographer! Regards.
It seems to me that the information that's baked into a RAW file is more than other, previous, post imaging processes have been able to interpret. In other words, the green "clover leaf" information was always there, but this new process is able to "see" it and therefore enhance it. This new tool is truly amazing!
I've just tried this tool and it is amazing! It seems to add colours in that aren't visible in the RAW file and sharpen as you say! But is it best to use this tool BEFORE or AFTER we apply edits to the photo?! I did the former and my PC almost had a meltdown. Thanks so much for showing us this Mark you really are a top gent! And it's impressive how you role these videos out every week without fail , hats off to you.
The denoise ai helps me so much with my bird photography because it allows me to shoot at higher apertures and shutter speeds without stressing about the noise
Yes, I have tested few days ago this new functionality and I found it very good for me, for what I need (not a pro photographer). I use Nikon Z50 (crop sensor) and I got noise very often, especially in low light situation, even on a tripod and ISO 100 (which is normal, in the end). With this Denoise AI I ended up with beautiful images, clean and sharp. Even on my pc it tooks like 6 mins, I'm happy with this new function, I don't think any more to get or try another software. Thx Mark for this video.
Thanks for the heads up. I had noticed that new noise removal tool in Lightroom, but hadn't got around to looking at it because I just assumed it would make a soft-ish mess of my photos. Nice to see it actually helps.
Nice find. I used this yesterday and was pretty much blown away. One thing that did not work was having it(the denoiser feature) paste across multiple images. I had to painstakingly apply their 'denoiser' individually to each image and wait. I may have to see for sure I'm right and if so...is there a workaround. With the advent of this 'denoiser', I wonder why camera manufacturers aren't pushing this type of software in the body of the camera? This add on does not have to allow a multiple burst mode(to save on processor overload)...one image a second is fine. Shooting at this high an ISO is used rarely but build in the noise reduction into the camera. The Zeiss ZX1 camera has Lightroom built in...I wonder if it has this new 'denoiser' feature?
Some of the examples I first saw seemed to show a slight dulling of the color - it was a vivid hummingbird and it just didn’t have quite as much luster in the final edit but that could easily be bumped back up. But here, the color looks great. And if this is just version 1?? v2 will be incredible.
Love having the new denoise feature. It will cause me to go back and do a better edit to some of my older shots. Have done some work using the Curves tool in Photoshop, but not a ton. Will have to experiment with it some more. I suspect a lot of your viewers also have just a little experience with the Curves tool. Now that it is in Lightroom it might be a helpful to your viewers to do more of a deep dive into the Curves tool in a future video.
Thanks Mark, great video as usual, I tried the new AI Denoise tool and it work well, but does take a while on older PC's😀. I would be selective for which images I use it on, hopefully not too many.
Thank you Mark! The past several of your vids that I’ve watched regarding Lr have been tremendously helpful and I’ve seen a very noticeable difference in quality in the final edit 🙏
It's worth mentioning the benefits of a graphics card upgrade to use this feature effectively. I tried it on my old PC and got an estimated time of 50 minutes! My new PC does an image in 10 seconds, it uses a 3080Ti card and 64gb of RAM. I don't think I would have the patience to wait 40 seconds per image if I had a large batch of files to do. If the rest of your PC is not too old, then I think a graphics card upgrade is pretty much essential to make the most of this.
The color enhance can be problematic. Saw another RUclipsr try it on a shot of the aurora. While it was great on his Mac, on his PC the aurora was throughly oversaturated with new colors introduced. Hopefully, Adobe will provide a slider to adjust the color enhance level
A video on how to make colors match on Mac and pc would be great! I "color calibrate" on my pc, but looks dark on my Mac. Would love to see out of the box mac/pc matching tutorial. Without adjusting monitors RGB. Like a normal person would do. Example, walk in best buy and look at your website portfolio, vs walk in a Mac store and look at your portfolio.
You can fix photos without having expensive lenses or cameras. Just wonderful for those of us on a tight budget. This new A.I. software is just perfect for us.
Mark, good comparison but there are other companies that have had noise reduction like Topaz, On1 ,and DxO. I use On1 on scanned slides from the 70s with grain on them like nothing you’ve ever seen or indoor sport shots using tri-x 400 pushed to 1600 then, scanned. On1 does a very good job on them. It would be nice if you compared those tools to the Lightroom Classic feature. Also by the way , On1 works with any file structure not just Raw.
I jumped ship from Canon dSLR to Sony mirrorless a few years back, and loved the fact that I could realistically use ISOs up to around 10000 with the Sony, when previously I was lucky if I could get away with 1600 on my old 7D. I've since jumped back to Canon dSLR (the Sony ergonomics didn't suit me), so I miss that ISO performance, but now I can get away with ISOs upwards of 1600 (if I really need to), with Lightroom's AI NR. I've tried it on a few images, and it works really well. I was quite handy with the manual NR before, but this both takes the legwork out of it, _and_ does a better job.
I love LR denoise! It doesn't make skin look like plastic, it doesn't bake your edits into a TIF, and it only takes 10 seconds per photo with my 3060ti.
I know you mentioned how the Denoise feature also seems to improve the detail, but has the sharpening tool been upgraded as well? I’ve been contemplating getting Topaz AI, but if Lr can keep up, I won’t bother introducing another program. Also, I just want to say that I’ve watched a lot of your channel and that your presentation on this particular video was top notch. I guess it helps when your genuinely excited about something. 😊 Great job!
Very good, as always. On your shirt where it says "Nature Photography Collective", I couldn't help but notice that the "ph" seemed to be moving like it was floating above the shirt, in 3D. Makes for a great distraction! I have shot 25,600 on my D7000, which is its max ISO as Hi-2, but it was for a night sky using ETTR (expose to the right) that I learned from Lonely Speck. I don't use it often. My usual max is around 6400, and I'm still experimenting with it.
I'm really glad I saw this video. I've been experimenting with the ai denoise with event photography and the results are nowhere near as nice as they are here. Knowing when to use which tools is super useful though.
Wow, with your endorsement in this latest episode, I guess I need to learn how to maximize the benefits of the tone curve. Sounds like I'm missing out.
I like the idea of curves in masks - what i really wanted was HSL or color grading in curves but we can essentially do that in PS if we needed to. And if you’re clever enough with curves you can get many of the same results with curves. So that’s awesome.
Thanks Mark, love your content…. Always helpful especially now as I work this into my new work full. I’m a capture 1 user over the years but the gap has now been narrowed.
I agree with your comments about the advances made in Lightroom and are now able to satisfactorily process about 80% of my shots in it but came across 2 yesterday that were not so good. One was a flock of sheep which I first tried in Topaz photo AI which was so bad I cancelled the edit. Lightroom denoise and detail was not bad but the back part of the flock were not showing as sharp when objects both in front of the flock and behind it were. so I passed the photo to Photolab 6 elite and applied XD prime to it and it produced a completely different photo sharp throughout with no noise. Having said that LR denoise was just as good as DXO on some night photos of lights on buildings and even showed the stars in the sky as did DXO so it's performance seems to vary depending on the photo. I think for Fuji X files DXO is still better for colours.
Thank you Mark for this video. The AI Denoise looks a great tool for people with a older camera, like me, I have an EOS 600D. Last week I made several photo's with an ISO of 1600, so there is lot of noise in those photo's. I was wondering, how to remove some, but hearing about this tool gives will make my work a bit easier. Thank you very much for showing this tool. 👍
another great video. I never noticed the dots. Cool! I am hoping Lightroom allowed collapsing of sections in the mask because they will be adding HSL, Color Grading, and more robust Detail to masks. One other feature that would be useful in Lightroom would be Focus Stacking. Hopefully a much better solution than Photoshop’s poor results. More along the lines of Helicon’s solution (a good piece of software), but I think Adobe could do even better than that interface with better initial results using AI for parametric decisions.
Since going full-frame, I've always shot Manual with auto ISO, keeping an eye on the ISO just to ensure it didn't go too high. Now I have this LR update and Topaz Labs PhotoAI I don't even look at ISO because it doesn't matter anymore !!!
It's easy to be impressed with these functions just like when the Topaz prgrams were launched, however, the results are a little "smudgy" still very good but might benefit from some nice even noise being added in a controlled way to give the illusion of detail, that green leaf for example seems to lack texture.
Pure detail and microcontrast…still matters a helluva lot. Last summer I started shooting sports at iso 800 all the time to get the benefits of dynamic range protection. Nowdays I’m confident in my composition and the basic dynamic range enough to stick at 200 and …yeah the pure detail is there where it wasn’t last summer.
I have been using Capture One for almost a year and think it works well. However, I have kept seeing features of Lightroom that I felt were superior to C1. Also, the amount of information and instruction is vastly larger. I've been thinking about switching for a while now. The final straw was I went with a pro photographer and did a two day shoot of a big horse roundup here in NW Colorado. I got some great images but, without going into details, many of them came out grainy for reasons I'm not really sure of. Still working on that. Anyway, I didn't want to lose these shots, and so, since I was aware of the new denoise feature in Lightroom I pulled the trigger only last night. I've been using only one image so far as a learning tool. All I can say about the denoise is, "Holy Cow"!!! I think it's going to save a whole slew of photos that otherwise would have been lost. And yes Mark, I downloaded your free Lightroom Essentials Course. Thanks!
I'm trying to learn when I should and when I should edit my photos. I really hate the over saturated, overly perfect photos I see a lot on the internet, but then I look at my own photos and feel like I need to edit them to be poppier. Do you have any tips on that?
I'm happy about this. I have Topaz Denoise but I would much prefer not to have to export to a TIFF in order to remove noise. I'd like to do as much to the RAW photo as possible before exporting as a TIFF to an external editor. The extreme example you gave gives me a lot of faith in this because my highest landscape ISO is 800 so I'm sure my results will look great. (If someone's actually shooting landscapes at 25,000 ISO then something has gone horribly wrong!)
Great review of these new tools in Lr, Mark!! It's very helpful. There are reviews comparing the enhanced handling in Lr v DxO's PureRaw3 and Topaz'a rendering as well. booth line, these tools are getting better and better and competition benefits us all!!
Hello Mark, thanks for this video) Do you happen to know what that red dot under the masking tool means? In the beginning it was gray, but then it became red. 11:46 I noticed that after the last update.
A friend of mine who I thought photography was having issues with understanding photography. I considered him still at the intermediate level. One day he was hired to do a photoshoot of a birthday party using his new Canon 1DX Mk II camera. After doing the photoshoot, he called me up the following morning and was in a panic mode. He told me that all his photos at the party were noisy. I asked him every question that I can think of that may have caused the noise in his photos. He emailed me one JPG image to see how serious the noise was. I was totally flabbergasted after viewing the image. They were somewhat noisy as hell but not too noisy. I told him to give me all the RAW image photos and put them in a flash drive. After using this technique of Lightrooms AI Denoise I manage to rescue all the noisy images that he took and came out more of a presentable image to his client. Of course, I had to charge him for my work but he was happy in the end. Yes, this is a great tool that Lightroom added in the denoise adjustment.
Great video. I cannot get LR Denoise to work on my computer. I load the image and the estimated time is about two hours. If I could get it to work, I would know if I would use it. For now, I use Topaz Denoise using a TFF file for the best results.
Great video , this makes me glad that I subscribe to Adobe for updates to my LR, PS ,CR .I don't have to scrouge around and update my LR. I will give this a try .If I make a virtual copy of an edited photo , will I need to reset the image to use the enhance tool? I like this added right history folder if you will is a great addition!
This is comparable to DXO deep prime XD. DXO still has the lead on optical corrections and they use the lens noise performance data in their noise analysis. DXO has inspired everyone to up their game.
when I go over the 1000 iso I start to worry, this is mainly a kick back from my D300s when after 800 everything went south. Reckon I could take the D500 to 1600 with safety. thanks for the vid.
denoising is certainly getting better. The folks at Adobe are doing great work! It does still look a little smeary compared to a clean ISO 100 image, but not bad at all.
A seemingly small thing, but having the little tick marks for each panel really helps stay consistent. Can't quantify how much time it saves to not have to open each panel to make sure I've made my desired adjustments in that section.
🌟Question: What’s the highest ISO you’ll use on your camera?
Generally around 3200 but with this new tool I think I might up my limit
I have an older D7200 so usually I don’t go above 3200, very rarely I might…might go to 6400. I think I did that once. I have used auto iso during a Supercross event and I am not sure, without going into the metadata, what the camera did.
On my R6 I and II I find 6400 to be relatively useable
That’s my thinking as well
With my Sony A7 IV, I used to never go above 3200. With the new AI noise reduction tool from Lightroom, I can now go at 6400 without any issues. Love it!
Would be interesting to see how the noise reduction on high ISO compares to a low iso shot, to see how accurate the color/detail actually is.
Ive already tested this a lot and from what i can say : high iso shots that went through lightrooms denoise ai most of the time look just the same ( often even better ) as base iso shots ( though base iso can have some noise in it aswell ) - the only problem is, when there are very small faces and a lot of noise (and i mean really small like for example fotos of people that are in the background of an image ), because then the ai very often does not know how to render these parts and it does something scary to the faces.. but nothing they cannot fix with some better face recognition
@@alessiobartolotti318 Thank you for testing this for us! I'm too casual a photographer to upgrade from the old Lightroom 6, but it's cool to see how this technology is evolving.
@Alessio Bartolotti is it available on the mobile app?
Did this, absolute game changer tbh. Was scared to shoot over 3k iso but now I can get away with 25600 and no issues. Just careful with detail though, cause the ai over does it if you yeet the slider to 100%
Takes 10-20 min to try yourself though, quit being lazy.
Mark. Your content is quite remarkable, and so are your style, presentation, narration and voice. You seem to be such a nice guy who genuinely likes to help and share knowledge and skills. Thank you so much for what you publish on this superb channel. So helpful.
I agree 100%
That denoise feature can be a game changer for smartphone photography. Especially with low light.
... and other crop-sensor cameras
The noise reduction tool looks amazing and almost inexplicable how it works so efficiently after having a picture taken by the sensor of the camera with fairly good amount of megapixel content on the sensor already capable of producing low noise level even at a high iso level! The amazing fact is that every pixel when exposed to light has already captured light from the different areas of a scene having uneven light reflected from each areas of the scene and these areas on the sensor have pixels of different light content giving the all the latitudes of light contained in each pixel of the entire sensor area and as it's known to us that pixels have capacities to contain light to the level of highest iso level and the more light they capture the more exposed they're to the amount of light they could hold in them! The grains of flims did the same work but the difference with the pixels remains in the fact that pixels when overly exposed cannot be made to dodge to reduce the exposures to the desired level which is unlike the grains of an emulsion of a celluloid film and on the contrary the pixels have the hidden light contained when under exposed and you can easily crank up the exposure in the areas of under exposure to bring out the detail in those low exposed pixels areas but to much of enhancing brings about the noise out of the pixels' incapacity to hold the brightness at a very higher level! Now, I don't know, how this has been curbed by post processing is astonishing me and I'm very curious to know if this is for the different form of medium like that of the clarity of the screen of the monitor on which the post processing is being done has an advantage over the noise which comes after a picture has been made or the credit goes only to the software? In the end I appreciate the picture you chose to reduce the noise level not because of the reason but because of it's overall visual appeal of the scene and I liked the steps of stones looks very naturally moistened peculiar to the place and the leading pathway made all the way up to the mysterious background of the foggy vail is a treat to the eye! I want more of your valued techniques as I know nothing of the post processing technique! On the other side I'm stunned by images Mads Peter Ivans presents in his epic tours of picturesque landscapes with Nigel and James and sometimes with others and alone too! You people are so inspiring!
You solved a problem for me. I didnt realise denoise could only be used on raw files. I only shoot raw, but I imported a lightroom image i did earlier and denoise didnt work, then I realised the processed raw image becomes JPEG, when exported so denoise wouldnt touch it. Really excellent tutorial. You really bring home just how good this new denoise feature.
I have an old laptop, i upgraded to be able to use Lightroom Classic, but still takes an anoying lenghth of time to process ! But the results are spectacular. Thanks.
For action shots, I started using more and more Auto ISO (after setting my shutter speed very high to capture action, and the f stop around f8 to get more in focus). Sometimes that results din ISO's between 3200 and 6400. I was using Topaz Noise AI to manage the results, and it works quite well, but is an extra step in my LR workflow. So it works but is usually cumbersome. Then when this LR Denoise AI tool became available, I tried it out and did some comparisons to Topaz AI on some higher ISO action shots I had. The Topaz tool might be very slightly better quality under a pixel microscope, but boy is the workflow so much easier using the LR tool. So I have stopped using Topaz and now only use LR Noise AI and will probably never look back. And I also thought I was seeing some better color and sharpening when using this Noise AI tool inside LR, but I was thinking that couldn't possibly be happening, right? Glad to see you confirm what I was seeing. Thanks! :)
Thanks so much for helping me to realise my LRC had not auto-updated, and was therefore running on an earlier version, pre-noise reduction! Had to reload Creative Cloud before I could get anything to update. Now looking forward to testing NR on some of my library pics...
This new feature really rescued my astrophotography. No longer do I feel like I need to stack images at ISO 1600 or 3200.
it has some artifacts on the stars though. It created some curvy and relatively long lines between some stars
I always enjoy your tutorials, this one, in particular, is exceptional! Thank you for these and future offerings. Cheers.
As always, I learn something from your videos. I've been using the new tools in LRc but have yet to notice what the little eye icons did. I also learned that the denoise feature could be adjusted. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I viewed your free video on Lightroom and found it very helpful. One of the most detailed and easy to understand and I have seen a few! Thank you.
Thanks Mark. I always share these videos with our photography club members. Super informative...
Your videos are absolutely amazing! I feel like I’m sitting in your living room with you, while you’re showing me stuff on your computer! Very very comfortable, which is a good thing because now I feel like I can go and do this! Thank you again for your knowledge!
The new noise reduction has received lots of attention, thanks for pointing out some of the small improvements that can make a big difference too.
It takes like 4-5 mins on my fast computer to process a Sony A7 IV file but WHEN IT DOES. Wowzers! I will be doing this to all my stock images from now on. It really is impressive.
Well, let me tell you...I do mostly stage photography--musicals, dance recitals, etc. I live at ISO 6400 with a lot of black in the backgrounds. The Lightroom Denoise is absolutely amazing for me. A revelation.
Agreed. We just shot a low light event held in a tent. I was able to clean up so many images with denoise. But you have to be careful with it as doing too much makes the AI component too obvious.
the denoise is def fun to play with, but the curves in masks is really something ive been waiting for. super powerful.
Totally agree!
Agree I have been loving the color you target too with mask now .. there were so many times I wanted to effect color in the masked region but not the rest of the image 😊
Good summary. I’ve been doing a lot of shooting but very little editing since these changes came out. This is very helpful.
I'd forgotten all about the new 'de noise' function in LRc 😢 thank you for bringing this up
Nice video. Thanks I always find your talks useful as a landscape photographer. I'm blown away with the new Denoise tool you spoke about. I do lots of photos in low light for sunrise and sunset, luckily in RAW format. Just in the past week I've recovered over 10 photos that I thought were lost due to noise. I was worried the Fuji XT4 might not have a large enough sensor for what I enjoy shooting the most, ie sunrise.. Problems solved! The Denoise feature on Lightroom has made the investment in LrC an easy choice and something that will improve my enjoyment in photography. A must have for any serious photographer! Regards.
It seems to me that the information that's baked into a RAW file is more than other, previous, post imaging processes have been able to interpret. In other words, the green "clover leaf" information was always there, but this new process is able to "see" it and therefore enhance it. This new tool is truly amazing!
Mark, you are really cool.
As always, your video was a treat!
Mark, Just letting you know these are my favorite videos of yours. Love seeing and learning like this. Bravo.
I've just tried this tool and it is amazing! It seems to add colours in that aren't visible in the RAW file and sharpen as you say! But is it best to use this tool BEFORE or AFTER we apply edits to the photo?! I did the former and my PC almost had a meltdown. Thanks so much for showing us this Mark you really are a top gent! And it's impressive how you role these videos out every week without fail , hats off to you.
The denoise ai helps me so much with my bird photography because it allows me to shoot at higher apertures and shutter speeds without stressing about the noise
Yes, I have tested few days ago this new functionality and I found it very good for me, for what I need (not a pro photographer). I use Nikon Z50 (crop sensor) and I got noise very often, especially in low light situation, even on a tripod and ISO 100 (which is normal, in the end). With this Denoise AI I ended up with beautiful images, clean and sharp. Even on my pc it tooks like 6 mins, I'm happy with this new function, I don't think any more to get or try another software. Thx Mark for this video.
Great vid Mark, thank you for taking the time to pull this one together.
Wow - I love LRC - but this is just getting beyond now - brilliant stuff
Thanks for this video. Impressive tool from LRc! 📸👍
Excellent presentation and all examples!! What is the editing pad you are using?
Thanks
Thanks for the heads up. I had noticed that new noise removal tool in Lightroom, but hadn't got around to looking at it because I just assumed it would make a soft-ish mess of my photos. Nice to see it actually helps.
Nice find. I used this yesterday and was pretty much blown away. One thing that did not work was having it(the denoiser feature) paste across multiple images. I had to painstakingly apply their 'denoiser' individually to each image and wait. I may have to see for sure I'm right and if so...is there a workaround. With the advent of this 'denoiser', I wonder why camera manufacturers aren't pushing this type of software in the body of the camera? This add on does not have to allow a multiple burst mode(to save on processor overload)...one image a second is fine. Shooting at this high an ISO is used rarely but build in the noise reduction into the camera. The Zeiss ZX1 camera has Lightroom built in...I wonder if it has this new 'denoiser' feature?
Hello Mark, Thank you for sharing this outstanding video. As always, I continue to learn something new from your videos & I THANK YOU for that, Tom.
Some of the examples I first saw seemed to show a slight dulling of the color - it was a vivid hummingbird and it just didn’t have quite as much luster in the final edit but that could easily be bumped back up. But here, the color looks great. And if this is just version 1?? v2 will be incredible.
Love having the new denoise feature. It will cause me to go back and do a better edit to some of my older shots. Have done some work using the Curves tool in Photoshop, but not a ton. Will have to experiment with it some more. I suspect a lot of your viewers also have just a little experience with the Curves tool. Now that it is in Lightroom it might be a helpful to your viewers to do more of a deep dive into the Curves tool in a future video.
Lightrooms Denoise is really good. When I need to use it, I'm so happy it works well.
Thanks Mark, great video as usual, I tried the new AI Denoise tool and it work well, but does take a while on older PC's😀. I would be selective for which images I use it on, hopefully not too many.
True! For me it takes ca. 30min 🙄 but it works very well 😁
Thank you Mark! The past several of your vids that I’ve watched regarding Lr have been tremendously helpful and I’ve seen a very noticeable difference in quality in the final edit 🙏
Very helpful Mark! Thanks so much!
Nice LRC tip, thank you for doing this video.
It's worth mentioning the benefits of a graphics card upgrade to use this feature effectively. I tried it on my old PC and got an estimated time of 50 minutes! My new PC does an image in 10 seconds, it uses a 3080Ti card and 64gb of RAM. I don't think I would have the patience to wait 40 seconds per image if I had a large batch of files to do.
If the rest of your PC is not too old, then I think a graphics card upgrade is pretty much essential to make the most of this.
The color enhance can be problematic. Saw another RUclipsr try it on a shot of the aurora. While it was great on his Mac, on his PC the aurora was throughly oversaturated with new colors introduced. Hopefully, Adobe will provide a slider to adjust the color enhance level
A video on how to make colors match on Mac and pc would be great!
I "color calibrate" on my pc, but looks dark on my Mac.
Would love to see out of the box mac/pc matching tutorial. Without adjusting monitors RGB. Like a normal person would do.
Example, walk in best buy and look at your website portfolio, vs walk in a Mac store and look at your portfolio.
Great video! DeNoise gives new life to crop sensors:
MFT can be the new FF,
FF can be the new MF 😃
(disregarding DOF differences)
Super video. I didn't realise it only works with raw files!
You can fix photos without having expensive lenses or cameras. Just wonderful for those of us on a tight budget. This new A.I. software is just perfect for us.
Hi Mark, I agree, LR Classic is getting better and better. I now rarely use PS, except for a couple of tools. As always, LOVE your channel!
Mark, good comparison but there are other companies that have had noise reduction like Topaz, On1 ,and DxO. I use On1 on scanned slides from the 70s with grain on them like nothing you’ve ever seen or indoor sport shots using tri-x 400 pushed to 1600 then, scanned. On1 does a very good job on them. It would be nice if you compared those tools to the Lightroom Classic feature. Also by the way , On1 works with any file structure not just Raw.
Always learning practical tips. Something Adobe doesn’t do so it’s great that you do.
I really enjoy your videos - Clear, entertaining and really helpful. Thanks!
I love this tool so much! Makes a huge difference! 🎉
Totally agree - very impressive!
I jumped ship from Canon dSLR to Sony mirrorless a few years back, and loved the fact that I could realistically use ISOs up to around 10000 with the Sony, when previously I was lucky if I could get away with 1600 on my old 7D. I've since jumped back to Canon dSLR (the Sony ergonomics didn't suit me), so I miss that ISO performance, but now I can get away with ISOs upwards of 1600 (if I really need to), with Lightroom's AI NR. I've tried it on a few images, and it works really well. I was quite handy with the manual NR before, but this both takes the legwork out of it, _and_ does a better job.
get canon r6 or r8 or r5
Wow 😮 I didn’t know. I’m going to try it. Its amazing
Mark-Thanks for another great and informational video! So many of the updates to Lr I wasn't even aware of until your instruction - THANKS AGAIN!
Great to hear it’s helpful!
I love LR denoise! It doesn't make skin look like plastic, it doesn't bake your edits into a TIF, and it only takes 10 seconds per photo with my 3060ti.
Great video as always. Thank you!
I know you mentioned how the Denoise feature also seems to improve the detail, but has the sharpening tool been upgraded as well? I’ve been contemplating getting Topaz AI, but if Lr can keep up, I won’t bother introducing another program. Also, I just want to say that I’ve watched a lot of your channel and that your presentation on this particular video was top notch. I guess it helps when your genuinely excited about something. 😊 Great job!
Thanks Mark. Great video !!
Thanks Mark, such a good practical review. My denoise takes 50 minutes on some images. Not sure what to do.
Thanks Daniel!
Likely time is hardware (processing power of your computer) and size of the photos.
Very good, as always.
On your shirt where it says "Nature Photography Collective", I couldn't help but notice that the "ph" seemed to be moving like it was floating above the shirt, in 3D. Makes for a great distraction!
I have shot 25,600 on my D7000, which is its max ISO as Hi-2, but it was for a night sky using ETTR (expose to the right) that I learned from Lonely Speck. I don't use it often. My usual max is around 6400, and I'm still experimenting with it.
Thank you for this! Really helpful!
Didn’t know about the AI noise updates in Lr, very useful. I use 1600 ISO for low light wildlife photography 👍🏻
Thanks Mark. Great content (as usual)
I'm really glad I saw this video. I've been experimenting with the ai denoise with event photography and the results are nowhere near as nice as they are here. Knowing when to use which tools is super useful though.
That 25600 noise looks awesome THE WAY IT IS. We need a consciousness change regarding noise!
Wow, with your endorsement in this latest episode, I guess I need to learn how to maximize the benefits of the tone curve. Sounds like I'm missing out.
I like the idea of curves in masks - what i really wanted was HSL or color grading in curves but we can essentially do that in PS if we needed to. And if you’re clever enough with curves you can get many of the same results with curves. So that’s awesome.
Great video! I wonder how the enhanced image compares to a proper image at say 100 iso
Thanks Robert!
Mate, that was fantastic!
Thanks Mark, love your content…. Always helpful especially now as I work this into my
new work full. I’m a capture 1 user over the years but the gap has now been narrowed.
Thanks so much AJ!
I agree with your comments about the advances made in Lightroom and are now able to satisfactorily process about 80% of my shots in it but came across 2 yesterday that were not so good. One was a flock of sheep which I first tried in Topaz photo AI which was so bad I cancelled the edit. Lightroom denoise and detail was not bad but the back part of the flock were not showing as sharp when objects both in front of the flock and behind it were. so I passed the photo to Photolab 6 elite and applied XD prime to it and it produced a completely different photo sharp throughout with no noise. Having said that LR denoise was just as good as DXO on some night photos of lights on buildings and even showed the stars in the sky as did DXO so it's performance seems to vary depending on the photo. I think for Fuji X files DXO is still better for colours.
Thank you Mark for this video. The AI Denoise looks a great tool for people with a older camera, like me, I have an EOS 600D. Last week I made several photo's with an ISO of 1600, so there is lot of noise in those photo's. I was wondering, how to remove some, but hearing about this tool gives will make my work a bit easier. Thank you very much for showing this tool. 👍
Glad to do it and thanks for checking out the video!
another great video. I never noticed the dots. Cool! I am hoping Lightroom allowed collapsing of sections in the mask because they will be adding HSL, Color Grading, and more robust Detail to masks. One other feature that would be useful in Lightroom would be Focus Stacking. Hopefully a much better solution than Photoshop’s poor results. More along the lines of Helicon’s solution (a good piece of software), but I think Adobe could do even better than that interface with better initial results using AI for parametric decisions.
Another interesting video Mark, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for checking it out Steve!
Since going full-frame, I've always shot Manual with auto ISO, keeping an eye on the ISO just to ensure it didn't go too high. Now I have this LR update and Topaz Labs PhotoAI I don't even look at ISO because it doesn't matter anymore !!!
what would be interesting is to compare this denoise tech result from an apsc sensor's high ISO-pic to a full frame one without denoise.
It's easy to be impressed with these functions just like when the Topaz prgrams were launched, however, the results are a little "smudgy" still very good but might benefit from some nice even noise being added in a controlled way to give the illusion of detail, that green leaf for example seems to lack texture.
Wow! you still have an iPod! That is great!
Totally helpful! Thank you!
As a wedding photographer this is a big help
Great job, thanks. Al
Pure detail and microcontrast…still matters a helluva lot. Last summer I started shooting sports at iso 800 all the time to get the benefits of dynamic range protection. Nowdays I’m confident in my composition and the basic dynamic range enough to stick at 200 and …yeah the pure detail is there where it wasn’t last summer.
I have been using Capture One for almost a year and think it works well. However, I have kept seeing features of Lightroom that I felt were superior to C1. Also, the amount of information and instruction is vastly larger. I've been thinking about switching for a while now. The final straw was I went with a pro photographer and did a two day shoot of a big horse roundup here in NW Colorado. I got some great images but, without going into details, many of them came out grainy for reasons I'm not really sure of. Still working on that. Anyway, I didn't want to lose these shots, and so, since I was aware of the new denoise feature in Lightroom I pulled the trigger only last night. I've been using only one image so far as a learning tool. All I can say about the denoise is, "Holy Cow"!!! I think it's going to save a whole slew of photos that otherwise would have been lost. And yes Mark, I downloaded your free Lightroom Essentials Course. Thanks!
I'm trying to learn when I should and when I should edit my photos. I really hate the over saturated, overly perfect photos I see a lot on the internet, but then I look at my own photos and feel like I need to edit them to be poppier. Do you have any tips on that?
I'm happy about this. I have Topaz Denoise but I would much prefer not to have to export to a TIFF in order to remove noise. I'd like to do as much to the RAW photo as possible before exporting as a TIFF to an external editor. The extreme example you gave gives me a lot of faith in this because my highest landscape ISO is 800 so I'm sure my results will look great. (If someone's actually shooting landscapes at 25,000 ISO then something has gone horribly wrong!)
Great review of these new tools in Lr, Mark!! It's very helpful. There are reviews comparing the enhanced handling in Lr v DxO's PureRaw3 and Topaz'a rendering as well. booth line, these tools are getting better and better and competition benefits us all!!
Hello Mark, thanks for this video)
Do you happen to know what that red dot under the masking tool means? In the beginning it was gray, but then it became red. 11:46 I noticed that after the last update.
I was wondering too why it changed to red?
A friend of mine who I thought photography was having issues with understanding photography. I considered him still at the intermediate level. One day he was hired to do a photoshoot of a birthday party using his new Canon 1DX Mk II camera. After doing the photoshoot, he called me up the following morning and was in a panic mode. He told me that all his photos at the party were noisy. I asked him every question that I can think of that may have caused the noise in his photos. He emailed me one JPG image to see how serious the noise was. I was totally flabbergasted after viewing the image. They were somewhat noisy as hell but not too noisy. I told him to give me all the RAW image photos and put them in a flash drive. After using this technique of Lightrooms AI Denoise I manage to rescue all the noisy images that he took and came out more of a presentable image to his client. Of course, I had to charge him for my work but he was happy in the end. Yes, this is a great tool that Lightroom added in the denoise adjustment.
Great video. I cannot get LR Denoise to work on my computer. I load the image and the estimated time is about two hours. If I could get it to work, I would know if I would use it. For now, I use Topaz Denoise using a TFF file for the best results.
Great video , this makes me glad that I subscribe to Adobe for updates to my LR, PS ,CR .I don't have to scrouge around and update my LR. I will give this a try .If I make a virtual copy of an edited photo , will I need to reset the image to use the enhance tool? I like this added right history folder if you will is a great addition!
This is comparable to DXO deep prime XD. DXO still has the lead on optical corrections and they use the lens noise performance data in their noise analysis. DXO has inspired everyone to up their game.
Great tips thank you!
Big question: where in the workflow should you use Denoise?
when I go over the 1000 iso I start to worry, this is mainly a kick back from my D300s when after 800 everything went south. Reckon I could take the D500 to 1600 with safety. thanks for the vid.
Thanks. So great. I also like touch pad, what is brand name?
denoising is certainly getting better. The folks at Adobe are doing great work! It does still look a little smeary compared to a clean ISO 100 image, but not bad at all.
A seemingly small thing, but having the little tick marks for each panel really helps stay consistent. Can't quantify how much time it saves to not have to open each panel to make sure I've made my desired adjustments in that section.
Great tips, I have tried and like it
Great video! Why isn't this done by default in Lightroom?
Enjoy your lessons with interesting subject matter. On a seperate matter,I am looking at updating my old mac desktop.What are the specs of your system