Lightroom adds AI denoise to make old photos look like new

Modern smartphone cameras have become better and better at dealing with low light, and their multi-megapixel image sensors routinely take sharp shots in full sun. But it's likely that you have hundreds of grainy older photos from older cameras--and that's where a new AI feature from Adobe Lightroom may prove useful. Adobe Lightroom Classic, as well as the modern versions for Windows and Mac and Adobe Camera Raw, are adding a Denoise feature. Professional photographers may benefit from how Adobe sees it--taking high ISO shots in low light. Doing so introduces the "speckles" where an image sensor struggles to present the image clearly, due to issues like pixel density, the size of the sensor, and shutter speed.