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Lightroom 12.3 Just Changed How I Handle Noise and Masking — Here's What You Need to Know
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Lightroom 12.3 Just Changed How I Handle Noise and Masking — Here's What You Need to Know

Every few months Adobe drops an update that makes me reconsider a chunk of my workflow. Most of the time it’s incremental, a slider moved, a panel reorganized. But the April 2023 release of Lightroom Classic 12.3 landed differently. It touched two areas I deal with constantly: noise reduction and masking. And in both cases, the changes weren’t cosmetic. In this Matt Kloskowski tutorial, he walks through the new Denoise button and the expanded masking options that shipped with version 12.

Lightroom 2025's Generative Remove Tool Just Made My Retouching Workflow Embarrassingly Fast
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Lightroom 2025's Generative Remove Tool Just Made My Retouching Workflow Embarrassingly Fast

Every fall I do the same thing. Adobe drops its annual updates, I spend a Saturday going through the changelogs, and I try to figure out which features will actually change how I work versus which ones will quietly collect dust in a menu I never open. This year’s releases, Lightroom Classic version 14 and Lightroom Desktop version 8, landed with a few genuinely useful upgrades. The one I want to walk through here is the one I’ve already used more in two weeks than I used the old version in two years: the overhauled Generative Remove tool.

Adobe Finally Did It: Adaptive Presets, AI Noise Reduction, and Preset Intensity Are Here
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Adobe Finally Did It: Adaptive Presets, AI Noise Reduction, and Preset Intensity Are Here

Every few months, Adobe drops an update and I spend an embarrassing amount of time testing it before I actually sit down to edit anything. This latest round of changes to both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic is different, though. These are not UI tweaks or subscription upsells dressed up as features. These are tools that solve problems I run into on real editing sessions, the kind where I’m trying to separate a subject from a background without spending twenty minutes painting masks by hand.