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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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    Aline32977988j7v9
    Participant
    October 17, 2023

    copy settings to multiple photos, one at a time. It only works with my LOUPDECK keyboard.

    I love this new setting

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      Dana330266526ws4
      Participant
      October 19, 2023

      The new blur tool is awesome, but photos on mobile using it will not save or take forever saving. Seems to just load forever. Storage is fine on my phone. I think it's a bug! Anyone know the reason for this?

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        Robert32976049o42u
        Participant
        October 17, 2023

        How long does it take on average for the lens Blur early access to analyse your photo on windows 11 system 

          AxelMatt
          Community Expert
          AxelMattCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          October 17, 2023

          It depends on your installed system components (how powerful they are) and the size of your image.

           

          My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
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            catalindacian
            Participating Frequently
            October 17, 2023

            Up to me the Lens Blur in CR works fantastic. Big congrats guys! 

            Find yourself as early as possible and keep following your dreams!
            heikop46878864
            heikop46878864
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            Für eine manuelle Bearbeitung wünschat man sich noch ein Verlaufswerkzeug. Das würde eine genauere Tiefenbearbeitung ermöglichen

            heikop46878864
            heikop46878864
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            Das funktioniert für klar abgegrenzte Objekte wirklich hervorragend!

            In anderen Fällen muß man eben nacharbeiten, geht aber auch gut!

            withdipayan
            withdipayan
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            It is a lifesaver for so many scenarios. The depth adjusment is quite precise however, further improvements can be made. However, one rather prominent issue arising sometimes is the ghosting effect around the subject, which was visible in Photoshop blur addition if not done with proper masking. In this case for lightroom, tried tweaking bunch of sliders but for some instance the ghosting effect is present.
            Hopefully Adobe will look into it as it is a prime drawback of adding blur in post compared to in camera. Very useful tool otherwise!!

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            Catia Barbosa
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            Hi,

             

            For me that use photoshop to edit images for architecture and interior, it would be nice to have some kind of pencil so I can blur only some faces, portraits or car license plates. Maybe using the same technology in the mask section, where you can select the object with a brush and instead of giving brightness we could blur that area!

             

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            dus26554855zt2v
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            At first its really interesting.  Now you dont have to own a fast lens, AI will do that for you. Depth visualization is fantastic. Not sure if beginners will benefit from all this, they shoulda learn basics and respect the light.. This way all is possible at first try... The reward is lost..

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            208bridge
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            As many other have comented this feature work s well and is a useful addition.  What's missing in my view is the ability to adjust light strength (shadows etc) for the subject -- the beta only offers a "boost" feature for the blurred background.  As a result I often find I still have to go baack to selective masking just so I can make the subject a little brighter, adjust midtones etc

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            Jim5C06
            Participant
            October 17, 2023

            Pretty cool concept, but after applying Lens Blur, LrC would crash when I went to edit masks. I added 5 masks, added Lens Blur, went back to edit masks, crash, crash, crash. Un-Applying Lens Blur fixed the problem.

             

            Interested in seeing this fixed, but for now I'll stick with selective reduction of Texture and Clarity.

             

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            daleducatte
            Participating Frequently
            October 17, 2023

            I've had a similar experience. The combination of Lens Blur with other masks didn't actually crash Lightroom in my case, but using the sliders (or keying in number values) for any of the mask settings took about five seconds each to respond, with lots of beachballing. Most other settings -- outside the mask panels -- worked fine.

             

            Turning Lens Blur off didn't solve the problem for me.

             

            The image had two masks: one with 34 objects selected, and an inverted copy of that mask. 

             

            Thinking that the number of mask objects might be causing a performance problem with LRC 13, I created a physical copy of the RAW file I was working with, renamed it, and imported it into Lightroom. Then I copied all the settings (including the masks) from the problem file to the new copy (pasting settings, I understand, doesn't currently copy Blur), and performance of mask settings was normal on the new version of the image.

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