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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Dainius244275322fy8

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Hello, I am using LIGHTROOM professionaly on my top notch best specs laptop (Lenovo LEGION 7i, CPU i9-11980HK, GPU RTX3080, RAM 32GB) and it become extremely slow with this artificial LENS BLUR applied. Impossible to work as it is now a great loss of time and functionality overall. Worst experience despite the idea of havng this feature available. But only that. Please look into performace improvement. This is a key issue... here.

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garyd03

Participant

I am having the same problem.

Lightroom now eats up memory since the last update, take a look at Task Manager.

Gary

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

For performance issues like this, I would first check that the GPU acceleration is turned on. Go to the app's Preferences dialog, under "Performances" tab, make sure the "Use Graphics Processor" setting is not turned off. See more details here https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#other-apps. If possible, you should also try to keep the GPU driver update to the latest.

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Jenö32141164a42n

Participant

It works fantastic with a landscape, a field of lowers, that I could blur in the distance.

But I tried it with a group of people and the blur edges are not realistic. There should be a slider to adjust the softness of the transition between sharp and blurred.

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richardr483

Participant

This is incredible. It seems you've just turned my f4 24-120 into an f2. It took literally seconds to do the conversion below.

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Jonathan2225

Participant

Also, I have this one photo (taken on iPhone) and the blur was doing some weird things on the edges of this hill. The non-blurred picture is a screenshot of the RAW photo (taken in DNG raw) and the other screenshot was an exported JPG with edits including blur.

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defaultp7jrbc0vyae8

Participant

Great new feature. I have to turn boost way down with back lit subjects. Small circles appear, almost like lens flair.

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Jonathan2225

Participant

I don't know if this would be possible but it would be cool for this feature to work with the new iPhone 15 feature of capturing depth information for a more accurate effect. Apple is doing it so you can add the Portrait mode effect after taking the photo, and also for the ability to adjust the focusing point and the blur amount. I don't know how feasible this would be because you would have to find some way of exporting that depth information with the RAW photo from photos on an iPhone to Lightroom, but if you can get it to work that would look the best.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

See the original description at the top on how Lr would handle the device-captured depth:

"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)."

When the device-captured depth data is avaialable, Lr would use it by default, unless you overrride it to use AI generated one by Lr via options in the "..." menu in the UI.

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Cassandra_21

Participant

Lens blur is AMAZING. What would help to save time to be able to copy and paste to every photo if wanted instead of doing each photo. Don't ever get rid of this. I'm planning to use this on EVERY session moving forward now 😄

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Argonne_Hills

Participant

Just found a neat effect for a small issue: in at least one photo the software can't detect the background as seen through a car window. Which means that the background as seen through the windows stays in focus, which results in a kind of funny / neat illusion of the car windows acting as corrective lenses for the blur, so to speak.

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Argonne_Hills

Participant

Pretty impressive stuff so far but need some more time to check it all out. Wondering if some of my old photos may have actually been taken with an f/1.2 lens instead of just a ho-hum f/2.8 if you get my drift lol

Rob II @ MPI

Participating Frequently

This is a fantastic addition to these products! I have only used it on one image (so far) and I am thoroughly impressed with the results! Definitely keep this in the product line!

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