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

Photoshop has lots of blur effects -- I showed a Gaussian blur above. Which one would you prefer most in a LR slider?

Yeah I'm aware of that approach, but it doesn't look nearly as good as the kind of blur specifically meant to emulate lens blur, like you get in Photoshop or Luminar. 

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A direct blur slider would be good.

But I think you can get a pretty good bokeh effect using Sharpness = -100, Texture = -100. The effect with a single mask isn't that strong, but you can quickly increase the effect by duplicating the mask as many times as you want.  The results look comparable to Gaussian Blur in Photoshop:

Base photo:

Inverted Subject Mask x 2, Sharpness = -100, Texture = -100:

Inverted Subject Mask x 4, Sharpness = -100, Texture = -100:

Photoshop inverted Subject, Gaussian Blur = 12:

Yes!!!! I've been looking for that for a long time! That would be an awesome feature.

I work as a photojournalist and often do quick photo edits (exposure, saturation, cropping) on my phone for breaking news, but sometimes there is certain details that I would like to blur out so that sensitive/private information doesn't get public. For example a face, a street sign or a license plate.

I know you can use negative Sharpen, Texture and Clarity to blur a bit, these are not enough for what I need, and sending the image over to another app isn't efficient and takes time I often don't have. This means I'll end up using a different image than I otherwise would have, or crop more than I would like to.

It isn't just for anonymity though, I often like to use a slight blur in combination or instead of with vignettes to focus attention even more, but I think the negative sharpness simply looks bad, and I would like a different kind of blur.

Love lightroom and all it can do, one thing is missing. Please add background blur! 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