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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JeffP3456

Participating Frequently

I regret that you removed the hue/saturation sliders which were an easy way to remove a color cast or tint in the images. AFAIK there is now no way to easily and selectively remove such.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

@JeffP3456 This is the Lens Blur thread. HSL is still there in the Color Mixer panel. You choose between Mixer and Point Color. HSL is in the Mixer.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

marolu

Participant

I used it for the first time and find it most useful for family portraits where you have to stop down or use more wide angle lenses where depth of field increases.

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nicci250115351hjq

Participant

it will not work as it says I need version 3 or later, but my LR is updated?? I don't know what to do...

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Mr. Chuffy

Inspiring

It's already made my copy of Lightroom Classic crash four times. Looks interesting and of value, but it's frustrating to have to constantly restart the application.

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danaf69875454

Participating Frequently

After the update LRC has become crazy slow, to the point of me not wanting to edit. When making any lens blur adjustment there's a long period of spinning color wheel, it makes this optioin pretty much useless to me. Is there a way for me to roll back to the previous version?

Imac 3.8GHGZ Quad Core I5, 64 GB ram, 2tb hard drive with 1.7TB free, Radeon Pro 580 GB, photos on 4tb SSD with 1TB free.

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Leslie32809415qexu

Participant

Initially this appears to be a great option.

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DonH

Known Participant

I recommend you allow lens blur to be added to a selection mask (such as Subject) - why?

The new lens blur tools provides controls that let you refine the lens blur - but it's very hard to limit the blur to the equivalent of a Background or Inverted Subject mask. I can see most of my use of lens blur to be better if connected to a selection mask. Thank you.

Don

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Jeffrey1956

Participant

Hi. I have found this very good and works very well until i go to use the Add Focus option I am finding this very slow and sometimes makes my PC grind to a halt. I dont think this is my system as all other features including the new updates work perfectly well with no slow down ???

Regards Jeff

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BobSmithing

Participant

I just tried this on some soccer pictures. A way to refine what is included/not included would be helpful—something like we can do with masking. I'm not sure how much I like this, though, I expect it will significantly increase my editing time... (humor in case that was not clear). An excellent start!