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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ronc62810223

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I'm getting frequent beachballs when I use Lens Blur (and also when I use the Crop Tool). The whole program is now sluggish. I'm on a MacBook Pro, late 2015, running macOS 12.7, Safari 16.6.1.

ireneb57579486

Participant

It is not working at all for me.

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jmorg65

Known Participant

Pics of my wife and I where there is a small amount of space between us, that area is not registered as background and remains unblurred. Makes clear it's an artifact and detracts from overall visual appeal. Needs more precision with space between people. Have found the same issue with masks in general, detecting space between body parts where there is a small gap, and between people, can be easily missed.

OF NOTE... If I create a mask on the same photo and select Subject, what is selected does NOT include this background area between us. So, the Mask tool is using a different algorithm to determine subject from background than what is used by the Lens Blur tool. So far, Mask tool wins on my n=1 trial.

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drchevalier

Participant

First attempt worked well. Like the ability to control the span of the blur. I don't expect to use this much, but based on my first go, it works well. Does take a while on Intel based Macs though.

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carlb17047802

Participant

Hopefully your going to make this able to Auto Sync, so it cna be applied to multiable images at the sametime!

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gerblo

Participant

I mostly like what I've seen. Complex edges e.g. in nature can be a bit funky.

The feature request: Add Saturation slider to lens blur.

joshuabury

Adobe Employee

Can you share more detail on your request for a saturation slider?

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daleducatte

Participating Frequently

I was checking to see if someone had suggested a saturation slider. Here's why I'd like one (and one for highlights):

I currently use object or subject selection to mask the background of a nature photo -- say, a couple of flowers with some stems and leaves that I want to keep in focus -- and use a combination of texture, sharpness, and noise reduction to soften and blur the background beyond what I captured with the camera. Then I'll decrease highlights and saturation (usually in the -15 to -25 range) because this gives the photo a greater appearance of depth and further differentiates the foreground from the background. It works really well with closeup nature photographs especially, because there are often lots of random, unfocused elements in the background (and blobs of green or brown) that I don't want to be so visually distracting. Decreasing saturation and highlights works well (better than, say, decreasing whites or increasing blacks) because it's more subtle and natural looking.

To get to a similar place with the new Blur tool, I'd have to use the Blur tool first then create masks separately to reduce saturation and/or highlights just for the background. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it would be great to do both with just the Blur tool.

rogerb54077690

Participant

Is it possible to use the brush tool to add or subtract areas of lens blur?

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xrayzzz

Known Participant

Yes, I think so.

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OrtegaPhotography

Participant

A veces tiene problemas cuando el sujeto tiene un sombrero, los bordes del sombrero los desenfoca y parece un "falso desenfoque", de 10 fotos me sucedió solo con 2, pero por lo demás funciona muy bien, me encantan las novedades del nuevo Lightroom mis felicitaciones a todo el grupo de Adobe 👍

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xrayzzz

Known Participant

Nice! I've always had to attempt this manually before, so this is a cool feature. Seems to work well so far. Sometimes the edges of the subject look to sharp compared to the background, or the AI doesn't quite select everything I want, but being able to use a brush to add/subtract is very helpful.

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Jaylive32906027e5we

Participant

I think it works great off the bat. I tried it on an image that was shot with a flash in the dark and I think it seemed to pick up the subjects realy well! Knowing this is the beta version, I think once its finalized and improvements are made, this will be such an amazing tool (already is).

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