Ai Denoise in Adobe Camera RAW Tutorial (Lightroom/Photoshop Workflow, No Separate DNG File Needed)

[@dwightbroemanphotosandart]

Thanks Dave! Very helpful. Appreciate the time and effort that you put into these videos. This is a good one!

[@danielchaskel2838]

Hi Dave, thanks a lot for this video. I'm all in with the TK9 Buttonclick Actions, so it is very nice that you show us, some other aspects of editing. LRC is part of my purchase, but I don't use it, too much fiddling with the catalogs. For me it is Bridge + ACR + PS. I appreciate this new pro denoising in ACR, because unfortunately Topaz don't developed their stand alones apps anymore, except G-AI. And for Foto-AI I bought in a bundle last year with Denoise and Sharpen, now they wanted an update purchase. In the end of the day I trust Adobe and the good old PS since 1993. 😄 Can't await the next TK Friday, cheers, Daniel, Berlin.

[@kc6715]

I agree! Bridge, ACR and PS.

[@salomon4263]

Muchas gracias por descubrirnos estos detalles que solo un experto como tú nos puedes contar. Un saludo.

[@kc6715]

You always make great videos - thank you! I have to add - it's a feral kitty! The ear has been clipped indicating the cat has been fixed. Thought you would want to know!!!!

[@DMillervideo]

apologies in advance if I missing something obvious. The advantage of this is that it doesn't create a separate space wasting DNG file. But it does create a large TIFF File,right? Now I have a 62MB RAW and 150MB TIFF. Am I missing where the savings are?

[@dianemccauley7893]

Great video Dave but I do have a question...I just watched your video on sending your photo from LR to PS as a smart object then sending to Camera Raw to do your Denoise then go back to PS...Maybe I am missing a step, but when I go back into PS I am not able to make any minor adjustments or add a canvas border. Please advise. Again thank you. Diane

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

After you denoise in Camera Raw and return to Photoshop, make sure you double-click the smart object thumbnail in the Layers panel. This will reopen the image in Camera Raw, allowing you to make further adjustments. For adding a canvas border, you can do this directly in Photoshop by going to Image > Canvas Size. Hope this helps!

[@gacjack]

Thanks Dave. I have encountered a small problem..when I open in camera raw following your instructions the dialogue dropdown for details does not give me the option to adjust the mask ?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Can you elaborate, I'm not understanding your issue.

[@gacjack]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly All good now dave thanks I just forgot to restart PS ..thanks again for all you do !

[@samelogio7441]

Could we extend this further to do some of our TK9 edits in photoshop while continuing to using Lightroom as our main editor? Is it even worth the effort? I would be interested in your thoughts.

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Absolutely Sam. It works well with my TK Friday Full Edit Workflow.

[@samelogio7441]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Could you actually demonstrate that in one of your TK Friday sessions. You often use "Edit In Photoshop" rather than a "smart object" when starting your edits from Lightroom.

[@samelogio7441]

Hi Dave, I was thinking about this workflow and would like to propose a different and simpler approach. Open your RAW file with Photoshop. It will open in ACR first because it is a RAW file. Then, perform the noise clean up as you did. Then, save the ACR file as a Smart Object. You will then have the ACR Smart Object as a layer in PS. From there you can add more layers with any other edits, including TK9. If you need the original ACR edits then just double click on the ACR Smart Object layer and you now have access to the original ACR edits. This seems a whole lot simpler than starting from LR. I would be interested in your thoughts.

[@photoinshot1355]

No separate DNG file needed, yes but you still need to create a tiff file, so to my mind you still have extra files to clutter your file storage? Or did I miss something?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Yes, whenever you work in Photoshop, you'll inevitably end up with a TIFF or PSD file. This is an inherent part of the Lightroom/Photoshop workflow.