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: Add Noise Option Custom Bokeh Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you! Posted by:

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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:

Add Noise Option
Custom Bokeh

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

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The Camino

Participant

Actually I like it, but in all tools, applying 100% looks like an utter cheese ball moment! Looks like a F .85 lens. It might be more 'natural' if you have the blur slider work with the feather on a ratio together. Maybe it would 'cheat the look' better when I decide to get out the pipe wrench and really, really crank that slider.

(Sometimes it looks like a green screen shot, or I'm playing a point and click adventure game from the 90's! Hilarious.)

Other than that, it's a good idea.

I'm pretty glad I get updates to my software on a regular basis, and honestly, this one? Pretty cool.

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Stephanie26617493pjsh

Participant

Please add the ability to add and subtract where the lens blur is applied (like a mask) as the AI doesn't usually get everything correct and it looks off.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

There is one. Try to expand the "Refine" collapsible arrow widget to access to the additional brush refine options. Julieanne has a very good tutorial video on this.

dkirk335

Participant

loving lens blur! No more sliding texture and claity to 0 only to get mediocre results. Would love to see you be able to zoom in and out with the space bar while appling blur.

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ElectricBlue7331

Participant

Works quite well. It properly detects animals and objects that are both close and far in the frame that should be blurred. Most of the time the blur looks correct with minimal artifacts.

I have two pieces of feedback. The default blur amount of 50 seems to be very strong. I find myself turning it down to around 20-30 every time while broadening the focal range to further mitigate the extreme effect. Second, performance using other modules specifically masking seems to be heavily impacted when Lens Blur is enabled. I understand that early access often has these issues so I will wait until final release and see how it feels.

For completeness, I included my lightroom system info file in case it's helpful

Looking forward to full release

Lightroom_Classic_System_Info.txt

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Ricard32959588op29

Participant

Fantástica herramienta, felicidades.

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Darlene25947236tt1k

Participant

I tried Lens Blur on two photos. The first one didn't have much effect --maybe, it was the visual depth. But, the second one came out fantastic and I really thought it improved the image. I liked what it did on the second one.

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Lucas Plankensteiner

Participant

A very usefull tool. I haven`t tryed it in combination with a mask, but it looks very promising.

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Moshe32958599qz1h

Participant

For me it seems amazing abilities

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chriswesselmanphotography

Participating Frequently

Here's another "hair problem" example. It's a trememdously useful tool, and I really look forward to using it!

Chris

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MKPHOTOGRAPHY777

Participant

RAD! Love the different iris efx!

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PurpleSwanPhoto

Known Participant

I guess that I'm going to have to upgrade my laptop, as using this makes it go so slow, to a virtual standstill in fact. Works well, but I couldn't use it in a workflow.

Bob Ulius

Known Participant

I need to do one more test to see if I will be able to use this at all! First try hardest crash ever on this computer. All froze. Required power button shutdown and reboot.

Worst comes to worst, forces me to create BOKEH with skill rather than tools 🙂