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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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    Niteesh Reddy
    Participant
    October 17, 2023

    An absolutely mind blowing feature. Works fantastic.

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    Bird Song Images
    Participant
    October 17, 2023

    This new feature is fabulous. It makes great backgrounds. My only major issue at this point is with blonde hair. When I apply the blur, the frizzy and small ourter hairs turn black 

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    RKentB
    Participant
    October 17, 2023

    I like it. The mechanism for adjusting the depth of the blur is super helpful.  I am not sure what the colors mean on that tool, but overall great effort.  I agree with the comments about more and varied bokeh.

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 17, 2023

    See https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/lens-blur.html: When you select Visualize Depth, the overlays on the image show the following colors:

    • Warm or Yellow: Covers the area that has a near focal range.
    • Cool or Blue: Covers the area that has a far focal range.
    • White: Covers the area that is currently in focus if you're adjusting the Focal Range controls.
    premiumleo
    premiumleo
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2023

    I absolutely love this! I've been actively applying this to ALL portrait shots. The only issue is it doesn't copy-paste yet. Please implement this asap. Thank you.

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    agrnbrg
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    IT GIVES A CLEAR WHITE LINE OF DEMARCATION AROUND THE SUBJECT. 

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2023

    Try fine tune the focus range and reduce the blur amount?

    photoyogi
    photoyogi
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2023

    first attempt... aprears clunky.

     

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    Flavio31624230umao
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Gostei muito dessa ferramenta, porém consome muito a Vram da placa de vídeo, mesmo os 12GB são completamente consumidos pela ferramenta e o consumo fica alto tempo depois de já aplicada e encerrado o uso a ferramenta. Acontecia isso também na ferramenta de redução de ruido por IA porém depois de algumas atualizações foi normalizado e espero que asim seja com essa nova ferramenta de desfoque por IA. 

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    WS007
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2023

    I wonder from where the "lens blurr" tool takes the information which regions of the photo are in the focus area and which not:

    Is it an algorithm that checks the actual raw file and decides what is in focus and what not (e.g. checking local contrast)?

    Is it information stored in the raw file itself (e.g. information from the focus pixels)?

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2023

    The area of focus is determined by the computed select subject mask.

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    WS007
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Thanks - you say it is just the "select subject" mask and the rest is out of focus?

    => This explains, why it sometimes looks artificial, just like a photomontage...

     

    Wolfgang

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    TrThelen
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Just trying this feature out, but already I really like it!  LOVE the blur effect it gives my photos.

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    AguiA5C45
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2023

    Não estou conseguindo realizar o novo "Desfoque de Lente" em meu Lightroom Classic. No meu notebook está acusando uma janela de erro logo quando clico para aplicar o processo. Segue em anexo a mensagem sobre uma parte da foto que estou trabalhando. 

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