How to Denoise & Super Resolution the same photo!
This is the cleanest way I’ve found to stack Denoise and Super Resolution in Lightroom without breaking your image, just a couple easy steps at the end of your workflow.
I start by fully editing like normal. Picks, exposure, contrast, color, curves, masks, all of it. Once they look exactly how I want, I run Lightroom’s built in Denoise on them to clean the images without touching super resolution yet.
From there, I export the denoised images as high quality TIF files, keeping only contact and copyright metadata. You do this to prevent any camera details from carrying over, and to use the TIF to bridge the two processes together.
Next step is reimporting those TIF files back into Lightroom. At this point the images should already be fully developed and finished, with the only thing left being Super Resolution. Once applied, Lightroom intelligently upscales the image while preserving detail and edges, without reintroducing noise or a...