In April 2023, Lightroom Classic (version 12.3) introduced an AI Denoising feature, claiming that

using artificial intelligence to process any Bayer or X-Trans RAW file can reduce noise without losing fine image details.

I tried this feature on the day of its release and found it extremely practical. This weekend, I dug up some old photos that I had given up on due to strong image noise, re-edited them, and brought them back to light. In the photo above, the ISO is 12800, but after AI noise reduction processing, obvious noise spots are basically invisible. The ISO of the photo above is 160, but due to strong backlighting, I was not very satisfied with the noise in the original photo during editing. After processing with AI, the image looks much cleaner when viewed again. In this daytime photo where air quality was poor and there were many color noise spots in the sky, using AI noise reduction also achieves a certain beautifying effect.

I have been very busy with work recently, so I didn’t have much energy to go to the airport to take photos on the weekend. I had to dig out some old photos to do the job. .