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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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September 27, 2023
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P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

  • September 27, 2023
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This post applies to Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic & the Lightroom Ecosystem products.

The Lightroom team is sharing an early look for AI-powered Lens Blur–giving you the ability to apply optical blur on any image regardless of how it was taken. Lens Blur is now available to try on all Lightroom surfaces.
 
How does Lens Blur work?
  • Lens blur applies a depth-based blur effect, similar to what can be achieved with real-world optical lenses, by using AI-generated or device-captured depth data (when available).
  • Lens blur will automatically prioritize focus for the detected subject, but you can also interactively adjust the focus distance. Precise focus range tuning is also available (currently desktop only: Lightroom Desktop, Lightroom Classic, and Camera Raw).
  • You can also further customize the Bokeh shapes, highlight Boost (desktop only), and make depth map refinements (desktop only).
 
Will my Lens Blur adjustments on one surface be synced to other surfaces? I.e. mobile to web to desktop, and vice versa?
  • Yes, all edits will sync. To revert settings, you can go back to previous versions or history steps, or un-apply Lens Blur settings.
 
Can I add Lens Blur settings to my presets?
  • No, presets and copy + paste workflows are not currently enabled for Lens Blur during Early Access.
 
For more information, please check out Lens Blur. 
 
Please give it a try and share feedback in this thread as we continually improve this feature.
 
Lisa Ngo: Lightroom Product Manager
 
Current Popular Lens Blur Feature Requests:

Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you!

 

 

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1380 replies

Participant
October 19, 2023

amazing!

Participant
October 19, 2023

Great feature! Should add a select subject/ brush option so you can pick what can be deselected 

Participating Frequently
October 19, 2023

first quick-look: so far so good. Very useful!

Participant
October 19, 2023

wide line around the sculpture against a dark sky. Yikes! First try. Not good. I have tried adjusting. Some improvement but not helpful on this photo.

Shutterbug2
Participant
October 19, 2023

Im sorry to say I am unable to try this as it is unresponsive on my laptop.

johnrellis
Legend
October 19, 2023

@Shutterbug2, "Im sorry to say I am unable to try this as it is unresponsive on my laptop."

 

It may be an issue with your graphics processor or its driver. Please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

Participant
October 19, 2023

tried it a few times now.  1st time it 100% missed the subject and blurred too much.

2nd time was more sucessful but it gave the image a very hard edge on a horizontal that didnt look remotely natural

Participant
October 19, 2023

I just did a quick test on an image and love the results. I love the inclusion of the depth map preview as it was super useful to spot refine some edges.

Participant
October 19, 2023

I LOVE this new feature in Lightroom - So Useful!! - please add to Photoshop too!!!

 

j.gumilar
Participant
October 19, 2023

ich finde diese Funktion sehr nützlich!

Participating Frequently
October 19, 2023

OK . this is pretty good right out of the box