P:(Masking) Add a Depth of Field blur slider

Love lightroom and all it can do, one thing is missing. Please add background blur and Select subject o rselcet sky add plz! That's the only thing missing. I import my pix, adjust tone and presence, crop, would love to add background blur there in the radial or graduated filter.

Thanks!

Ed

Could you please bring this one feature that will help photographers the most which is the lens blur effect that helps the editors to create the output photos completely through one app. Now, as an editor , i have to color grade my photos from lightroom mobile and jumb to another app for adding blur effect to ny photos. No matter if its a premium feature but still please add this one feature too.

I'd like to see the ability to add blur--similar to gausian blur in PS

It would be fantastic if Lightroom could add a blurring tool. I'm currently using Photoroom to blur my images, which works well except for the fact that the quality suffers. It would be preferable if I could complete all of my tasks using Lightroom mobile.

"negative sharpness and negative texture has absolutely NO effect and the face still smiles at the viewer."

That suggestion was for adding a bokeh effect (blurred depth-of-field), not for blurring faces.  Since this feature request is about adding a depth-of-field blur slider, I suggest you post a separate Idea for being able to blur faces and license plates.

The way you described with negative sharpness and negative texture has absolutely NO effect and the face still smiles at the viewer. According to law we have to blur the face in such a way that you can not recognize the person. (However I would hate to "kill" my photo by just filling the face with a solid colour)

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"With Darkroom I can access Depth Map in iPhone portrait images and change DOF in image. Would be a great add to Lightroom."

LR does provide access to the depth map via the Masking tool:

You can add bokeh blurring to the mask by setting Sharpness = -100, Texture = -100 and duplicating the mask as many times as desired to strengthen the effect. In a previous post, I showed an example where the result was indistinguishable from using Photoshop's Gaussian blur:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-masking-add-a-depth-of-field-blur-slider/idc-p/12570916#M13528

With Darkroom I can access Depth Map in iPhone portrait images and change DOF in image. Would be a great add to Lightroom. 

@dbk1234wrote, "if it was possible to blur the background more aggressively than the current tools allow"

I agree that having a better blur effect in LR would be great. But in case you didn't know, you can get quite a bit of blur by duplicating the mask as many times as needed:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-masking-add-a-depth-of-field-blur-slider/idc-p/12570916#M13528

The new automated subject selection feature is really great!  Now that subject detection can be more readily performed, it would be fantastic if it was possible to blur the background more aggressively than the current tools allow - something like the Depth Blur neural filter in Photoshop!

Thanks!