The new Lightroom update now offers super-resolution

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 20:02 by Nando Harmsen | 4,847 views | 0 comments

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Adobe has released another update for both Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. Both versions now offer the option to use super-resolution. This turns your 12-megapixel photo into a 48-megapixel photo, or your 24-megapixel photo into a 96-megapixel photo.

Some time ago, Adobe introduced the super-resolution option when using Adobe Camera Raw. When you opened a photo in this programme, you could make the image four times larger without any noticeable loss of quality.

You can watch my video tutorial about this option in the article I wrote about it.

When super-resolution was introduced in Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe also said that this feature would eventually be added to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. That has now happened with the latest update.

With this update, Lightroom has been updated to version 4.3. Lightroom Classic has been updated to version 10.3. If you have not installed this version yet, update it through the Creative Cloud app. Only then can you start using super-resolution.

Super-resolution in Lightroom

In Lightroom, the version that used to be called Lightroom CC, you get the super-resolution option by right-clicking a photo. Select the 'Enhance' option and tick 'Super Resolution' in the window that opens.

Pay attention to the time the programme needs to enlarge the photo. This gives you a good indication of how long you have to wait before Lightroom has enlarged the photo. The larger the original file, the longer it takes. The speed of your computer also has a major influence.

Super-resolution in Lightroom Classic

In Lightroom Classic, the version you run on your own computer rather than online, activating super-resolution works in a similar way.

In the Develop module, right-click the photo and choose the 'Enhance' option. Here too, tick the 'Super Resolution' option.

Easier and faster

With these updates, enlarging a photo has become much easier. The tricks you previously had to use to open, for example, a JPEG in Adobe Camera Raw are no longer needed. You can now make any photo four times larger in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.

In addition to this super-resolution feature, these updates bring several other new features and improvements. After the update, these are shown in an information window. Read through them to find out which ones may apply to you.

Possible problem for Mac users

A small addition for Mac users. Lightroom Classic may freeze while carrying out super-resolution. This is related to the permission the programme has been given by Apple.

Go to Permissions in your System Preferences and give Lightroom Classic Full Disk Access so that the programme can actually write the enlarged photo to the hard drive.

While you are there, give Photoshop this permission as well, so you do not run into the same problem there later.

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About the author

Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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