Adobe Lightroom Finally Gets Automatic AI Noise Reduction

For several years, smaller shops like DxO and Topaz have offered impressive one-click noise reduction for digital photos, while Adobe’s market-leading Lightroom required users to tinker with sliders, usually resulting in an inferior level of noise reduction.

But amid the AI craze, Adobe is finally adding automatic noise removal—along with several other new features—to Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Camera Raw, a utility included with Photoshop. Here are a few examples of the photo noise removal tool at work:

AI Denoise in Lightroom


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Lamp denoise in Lightroom


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In addition to the noise removal tool, Adobe announced more Adaptive Presets, Curves in Masking, more people auto-selection categories such as clothes and beards, Black & White for video, and a tech preview of Content Credentials(Opens in a new window), which allows users to add verifiable attribution to images that survives edits.

Beard and clothes selection in Lightroom


Left: Beard selection. Right: Clothes selection.
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Curves in Masking allows you to adjust tone levels for selected regions of a photo. This is great for when you need to, for example, bring up the light on just one object in an image.

Curves in selections in Lightroom


Curves in selections in Lightroom
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The new Adaptive Presets for portraits can detect the photo’s subject and apply effects only to specific areas. New presets include Polished Portrait, Darken Beard, and Enhance Clothing. The Polished Portrait preset automatically smoothes skin and refines facial features.


More Lightroom on the Web

Adobe also announced that some features already available in installed apps are coming to the web version of Lightroom. These include Select Subject, Sky, and Background. Masking and adaptive presets, including Whiten Teeth and Glamour, are also coming to the web.

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More minor feature adds include “Add borders and share” in the mobile version of Lightroom, 18 premium Travel presets, easier edit cut and paste in batch mode, the ability to turn off tooltips, and speedups for cropping, scrolling, panning, and zooming.

For details on all the new features in Lightroom, see Adobe’s Lightroom updates(Opens in a new window) page. And check out our reviews of Lightroom (the cloud-connected enthusiast version) and Lightroom Classic (the version uses by most pro photographers) for our evaluation of the new features.

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