Adobe's AI Noise Reduction is Here and It's Kind of a Big Deal

Adobe's AI Noise Reduction is Here and It's Kind of a Big Deal

I shoot a lot of work late in coffee shops. Bad lighting, available light, high ISO, the whole disaster. So noise has always been my nemesis, sitting there in my shadows like an uninvited guest who refuses to leave. For years I dealt with it through a mix of manual sliders in Lightroom and a third-party plugin that worked well but added time to every job. Then Adobe dropped their AI-powered Denoise feature in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw, and suddenly a lot of photographers started asking whether the plugin era is over.