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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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