One of the main reasons I recently updated to a newer laptop was to run Lightroom at a less lugubrious pace and to be able to use its new machine learning enhanced selection and noise reduction tools. On my decade old MacBook I could, with a lot of patience, make some use of the selection tools. Trying to use the noise reduction however reliably crashed the program. Not only that, it logged me out of my user. Very weird.
Happily, the new machine performs both tasks with ease. I’m especially impressed with Lightroom’s ability to clean up noise from high-ISO shots taken with my ancient Canon 5DII. Click the image below to see the before and after in more detail.
