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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Daniel J24241165m679

Participant

The choice of having a button for focus and a button for blur is inconsistent with the current models for adding and subtracting an effect in which no action adds the brush and holding the option key down subtracts the brush. Why was this done? Why create a new precedent? I was so used to the option key as the way to undo a brush action that I had to think thru what focus and blur really meant. I prefer keeping to the standard use of the option key to unblur an area that was previously blurred.

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3kids+2dogs

Participant

I absolutely love the new Lens Blur feature and can see great possibilities but at the present time every time I use it, it causes Lightoom to crash and I have to restart which is very frustrating.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Please share your system info via Lightroom>Help>System Info... and try to update to the latest macOS version or if you are on a Windows machine, follow https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html to update your machine to the latest GPU driver and see if the problem resolves itself.

If the OS or the driver is not available or possible and the problem persists, then try the following workaround method as a last resort. The method provides a mechanism to allow LrDesktop/LrClassic/ACR customers to force the ML inference to always run on CPU instead of default. See details here https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#lens-blur

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Electric_Sunflower0D4B

Participant

Great tool, very nicely done!

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ineedauniquename

Participant

Would be useufl too if a mask could bne generated for the material that is 'in focus' so we could make adjustments isoltated to the in focus parts of the image

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Lichtsammler

Participating Frequently

Totally agree. Sometimes I want to darken the background or something like that.

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robinpoppins

Participant

Amazing results, but when i try to refine the edges and use the brush tool, lightroom freezes for some seconds, screen gets black and then turns on again with the change. i use a rtx 4070

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0mx9

Inspiring

I liked the feature but cold see no differences on the different bokeh effects--I also cannot understand what the five different graphics are supposed to show. Thanks for adding the feature!

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Depending on your input, you might be able to see the effect if you zoom in more. This is a good article on bokeh effects https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/understanding-bokeh .

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jamesf89025314

Inspiring

Great addition. On a quick try, worked extremely well in two tries In a simple case, easier than neural filter version and certainly quicker than a round-trip to PS. With a tougher example the LR blur did a better job than PS's neural filter in selecting a subject from another human in the background. However, using "subject' selection left a good amount of the subject out of focus -- shoes, hair -- requiring manual brushing in. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Diego Espin

Participating Frequently

This was super cool!... love the effects and the visualization strip...

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corinnec51244538

Participant

Bonjour,

ne peut-on pas passer en mode négatif avec la touche "option" du clavier ?

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

"Can't you switch to negative mode with the "Option" key on the keyboard?"

Please explain exactly what you want?

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BlueRanger

Participating Frequently

Here's another example where it had trouble identifying some of the finer details as being part of the subject - note the railings and antenna. This is a great example of an image where I'd love to use it if it worked better.

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