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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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    Sanrob66
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Viewing Anthony Mroganti site.

    fond the blur function very easy.  It correctly identified the subject with no additional adjustment.  Upon enlagring the photo to check the total image I found a strange aboration around certain parts of the subject. Note captured area.

     

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 16, 2023

    The Refine tool is available to do some clean up in the missed area.

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    Kryzhov
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Hi! Thanks for great feature. 

    It might be useful to make masks based on depth and apply them on other effects like dehaze, change temperature or desaturation. 

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    defaultcgb1uff3pxrb
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    It works wonders on simple scenes, but it seems to struggle to identify depth when there's a fence in between. Would be interesting to add a masking option for some fine detail, with a depth slider so you can tell the AI how deep certain parts are (Maybe linked with opacity values?).

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    akiramedia
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    At the stronger settings, it tends to have very hard edges on overlapping foreground objects as it applies the lens blur to them. They will be blurred, but with very hard edges.

     

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    alainpiaf
    Participating Frequently
    October 16, 2023

    le nouveau "flou de l'objectif" est superbe, mais un peu insuffisant. Je n'ai pas pu recréer le flou de mon objectif (OM system 90mm macro) sur une photo prise à f/11 pour recréer la photo prise à f/3,5.

    Cordialement

    Alain Jouffray

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    Tami5EE1
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    I think the feature is fantastic. I have not found any issues with it just yet! 

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    WSPHOTOG
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    When bluring landscape in the background I am picking up a white line on the horizon and along the tops of hills.

    joshuabury
    Adobe Employee
    joshuabury
    Adobe Employee
    October 20, 2023

    Thank you for reporting. This is likely a quality issue with the Boost slider (just under the bokeh buttons). Please try reducing Boost and see if the problem goes away. (Note that currently Boost can only be adjusted in the "desktop" versions of Lightroom, not on mobile).

    Roland_Rick
    Roland_Rick
    Known Participant
    October 16, 2023

    Would be cool, if the subject could be masked. For your convenience, I provide a NEF. Subject is the church of course. Copyright: © Roland Rick, Liechtenstein. Rights usage term: All rights reserved. Adobe may use it for development purposes.

    OK: the system here isn't accepting NEF (26 MB), so please have a JPG instead, will try NEF to DNG converted also.

    OK 2: DNG (26 MB) also can't be uploaded as file of 47 MB, 16 bit PNG or compressed TIFF are about 106 MB, that's more as allowed max. file size. So, I stick to JPG. Honestly: Adobe could make it easier to users, helping to supporting Adobe, pleae make RAW file upload possible. It's anyway ridiculous RAW isn't possible.

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    Roberto Grippo Fotografia
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    excellent function, i'm already using it and it's perfect

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    Jens3294753763ue
    Participant
    October 16, 2023

    It looks good generally, however, the same issue you have with AI-blur are the smooth transition between areas of high contrast (e.g. a background with sky / dark forest) where everything is out of focus. The transition between the highlights and dark areas is too "obvious" making it useless in some cases. 

     

    Having said that - it is an excellent and useful tool and I find it very helpful if contrast is not too harsh. It would be great if this could be improved.

     

     

    joshuabury
    Adobe Employee
    joshuabury
    Adobe Employee
    October 20, 2023

    Out of curiosity, were those areas slightly blurred (out of focus) in the captured photo? We currently have some quality issues blurring areas like this when they start with existing optical blur from the lens they were captured with.

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