In the Detail panel, select Denoise.
Last updated on
Aug 13, 2025
Achieve crisp detail and improved color rendering in raw images.
Use Enhance to improve image quality
Enhance provides a set of features such as Denoise, Raw Details and Super Resolution to help improve image quality using Camera Raw.
- Denoise helps remove noise easily from an image. Using artificial intelligence, you can reduce noise without losing the image's fine details.
- Raw Details, previously called Enhance Details, produces crisp detail, improved color rendering, more accurate renditions of edges, and fewer artifacts. Raw Details is especially useful for making large prints, where fine details are more visible. This feature applies to raw mosaic files from cameras with Bayer sensors (Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others) and Fujifilm X-Trans sensors.
- Super Resolution helps create an enhanced image with similar results as Raw Details, but with 2x the linear resolution. This means that the enhanced image will have 2x the width and 2x the height of the original image, or 4x the total pixel count. This feature supports the same file types as Raw Details, plus additional file types such as JPEG and TIFF. Super Resolution is especially useful to increase the resolution of a cropped image.
Minimum system requirements
Your computer must meet the following minimum technical specifications to use the Enhance features:
Operating system
- (Mac) macOS Mojave (version 10.14) or later
- (Windows) Windows 10, version 1903 or later. See Windows 10 update history for details.
GPU
Enhance heavily uses the available GPU and can use an external GPU (eGPU) if available. View the graphics processor acceleration requirements in Lightroom Classic system requirements.
Note
- You can now access Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution in the Detail panel, as these features are now available as standard edit panel features.
- Apple Neural Engine does not provide support for AI Denoise on macOS.
Select Denoise to enhance your image. Holding Alt or Option key while selecting Denoise from the Detail panel will set the intensity of the slider to the last set Amount value.
Use the slider to adjust the intensity of the feature.
You can press and hold on to the preview area to view the changes made to the image.
Select Enhance to process the image as a new DNG file. The new file will be with Enhance-NR filename.
Note
- it's recommended to denoise your image before applying other tools, including AI masks and Content-Aware, as using Enhance might change the result of the tools used.
- Once the image has been enhanced with Denoise or Super Resolution, it can't be processed again. However, enhanced Raw Details DNGs can be processed with Denoise.
- Denoise is a GPU-intensive feature. Therefore, a faster GPU is recommended to enhance images quickly.
- Bayer and X-Trans mosaic raw files.
- Linear DNGs (including HDR and pano DNG images previously created inside Lightroom and Camera Raw)
- Smart proxies (DNG proxies)
- Monochrome raw files (such as Leica M MONOCHROM)
- Canon sRAW/mRAW files
- Nikon small raw files
- Fujifilm (non X-Trans Raw files)
- Sony AQR
- Pentax Pixel Shift Resolution (PSR) files
- Foveon cameras
- Apple ProRaw DNGs
- Samsung Galaxy Expert Raw
Apply Raw Details
In the Detail panel, select Raw Detail.
Select Enhance to create an enhanced DNG version of your photo.
Note
You can choose to stack the enhanced image with the original image by selecting Create Stack. The enhanced image is saved as a new DNG file with the filename in this format: 'Original filename-Enhanced-RD.DNG' and is placed next to the source image.
Raw Details is applicable to Bayer, X-Trans mosaic, and following linear raw files.
- Adobe Merged HDR
- Adobe Smart Preview
- Apple ProRaw
- Canon mRaw/sRaw
- Google Pixel Raw
- Nikon Linear Raw
- Samsung ExpertRaw
- Sony Linear Raw
Unsupported file formats for Raw Details
Raw Details does not apply to the following types of source images:
- Non-raw files such as a JPEGs, TIFFs, and HEICs
- Linear DNGs (including HDR and pano DNGs created by Merge)
- DNG proxies (Smart Previews)
- Monochrome raw files (such as Leica M MONOCHROM)
- Four-color cameras (such as Sony F828)
- Foveon cameras
- Fujifilm cameras with SR, EXR, or 2x4 mosaic sensors.
- Canon S-RAW/M-RAW files
- Nikon small raw files
- Pentax Pixel Shift Resolution (PSR) files
- Sony ARQ files
- Video files
In the Detail panel, select Super Resolution.
Note
If you're using Super Resolution in Lightroom or Camera Raw, see:
Note
You can stack the enhanced image with the original image by selecting Create Stack. The improved image is saved as a new DNG file with the filename in this format: 'Original filename-Enhanced-SR.DNG' and is placed next to the source image.
Use a keyboard shortcut to quickly enhance an image
Use the following keyboard shortcuts to enhance an image:
- Open the Enhance dialog: Ctrl + Option + I (macOS) / Ctrl + Alt + I (Windows)
- Apply the last selected option without opening the Enhance dialog : Shift + Ctrl + Option + I (macOS) / Shift + Ctrl + Alt + I (Windows)
In the Library or Develop module, select the images you want to enhance, and select Enhance from the context menu. The Batch Enhance Preview dialog box will show a preview of the first image or the image that supports all the options. Denoise, Raw Details, or Super Resolution (as per your selection) will be applied to all the photos once you select Enhance Images.
Note
- You can enhance an image only once, which means you cannot reapply Super Resolution to an already enhanced image.
- The preview for Super Resolution is shown at 2x linear magnification.
- Super resolution cannot be applied to images with a resolution higher than 128 MP or dimensions (width or height) greater than 32500 pixels.
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