From CNET: With an update Tuesday to its Lightroom software, Adobe has applied AI technology to one of the most persistent problems of digital photography: multicolored speckles of image noise. It's not always perfect, but it works and sometimes can salvage otherwise terrible photos.
Digital photos taken in dim conditions are often plagued with noise, especially when you need a fast shutter speed to avoid blur with moving subjects. But Adobe trained an artificial intelligence model to clean up photos, adding it as a new feature called denoise.
It's a notable example of how AI can breathe new life into older software and services. Microsoft, Google and other companies have the same idea with improvements planned for improving tools like searching with Bing, writing with Word and drafting emails with Gmail.
I've been trying Adobe's denoise AI feature in a prerelease version of Lightroom and can confirm it works, in some cases impressively. It rescued portraits by smoothing skin while preserving hair detail in photos I took at dawn with my DSLR at a very high ISO 25,600 sensitivity setting.
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