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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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    B32926581gusy
    Participant
    October 14, 2023

    good

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    _Augustux_
    Participant
    October 14, 2023

    this is wonderful, please add it as soon as possible.

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      Nicaise32331948q0j8
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      ths camera raw is very slow now nad for blur system

      my computer has 16GB for RAM and 3.35 Ghz for processor so i don't how is slow and graphic processor disabled

       

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      simonsaith
      Adobe Employee
      October 15, 2023

      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 required, you should also update the GPU driver to the latest.

      marko91179374
      marko91179374
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Love the concept of the Lens Blur palette, but some Develop palette tools needed to fine-tune what is being blurred, so it more naturally "fits" with the in-focus subject ... things like exposure/brightness, highlight/shadow and contrast control ... of course, temp/tint would be great, too.

      A slider to control the feathering of the selection would also be helpful.

      My experience is that the selection is very stark from background and works best with low-ISO photos. With high ISO, being able to use background blur to further mask noise in high ISO photos would be terrific.

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      defaultv5uvu2wpgyxn
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Looks great, but does'nt work on my clearly defined subject. Masking object/background works flawless. Why not making lens blur available as a mask effect? 

      Image: Handle and board of the original are in the same plane of focus

       

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      Julien32923045m8ka
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Cette nouvelle fonction flou de l'objectif va être révolutionaire ! Mais en effet, pas encore au point . 

      Voici quelques exemples 😉

      Merci adobe pour votre travail.

      puchta-design
      puchta-design
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Is it possible to export the depth as a alpha-mask?

      seriouseater
      seriouseater
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      It is easy to think of requests for improvements or additional features, but as is it is great. I have already rescued some of my worst images.

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      DFord32924471
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      I just found lens blur and so far I have found that it is quite accurate and intuitve to work with

      chrisp30202608
      chrisp30202608
      Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Great featire and would be even better of the blured area could be edited with other  tools, such as exposure.

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      DonH
      Known Participant
      October 14, 2023

      Building on chrisp30202608's comment - could the focus area selection from blur be used as a way of making a selection mask (I'm thinking of this in LR-Classic or ACR)?   The blur panel seems to have two functions - one is to select based on focus (with fine tuning) and the other is to blur a selection - those two functions don't really need to be connected - you should be able to blur any selection from any mask, and it might be useful to be able to adjust exposure, etc based on the focus selection (kind of like the select focus capability in PS).

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        Adobe Employee
        simonsaith
        Adobe Employee
        October 14, 2023

        What you are asking for is the depth range masking, which is already supported by Lr and ACR and is available to photos that already have device captured depth map. If Lr/ACR could allow access to the same depth map generated by the lens blur...

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