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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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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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1380 replies

Participant
October 13, 2023

Amazing tool. The fact that you can adjust the depth of field is perfect.

Participant
October 12, 2023

Seem to take a very long time to load the picture after applying the blur

Participant
October 12, 2023

I'm not seeing a way to remove part of what's masked in the focal range. Even when I adjust the slider to yellow and pink, it's still showing purple on part of the image that is in the distant background. I would like to be able to remove part of it like how masking works. 

Participating Frequently
October 12, 2023
Near the bottom of the dialog box there is a drop down prompt labeled
"Refine". It allows you to brush on more focus areas or alternatively blur

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*Bill*
Participant
October 12, 2023

On first image  tested this utility accurately identified the subjects (three people in a posed outdoor photo) isolated them from the background and applied good background blur. Focal Range adjustment looks useful. The one slight issue (imperfection) I see is with hair masking - but I know that's always very diffcult to achieve accurately.

All in all very impressed with recent Lightroom improvements such as this, Denoise, Subject and Background masking....

Participant
October 12, 2023

Very first try: On a b&w shot. Wanted to blur the forground. Finding that only the left side got a little blurred, but the right appears unchaged!

Participant
October 12, 2023

A ferramenta é excelente mais várias vezes o programa cai durante o processamento, e tenho que reiniciar. Parabens pela ferramenta, desejando um pouco mais de estabilidade . 

Participant
October 12, 2023

The brush is a useful tool, but it would be much more useful in some circumstances to have a way to drag out a blur in the same way you apply a linear gradient.

Robert Ripps
Inspiring
October 12, 2023

Works pretty damn well for a first version! Effects seem to carry over to ACR 16 in Photoshop 25 properly. Will have to try it out on some more images & see if I have any specific feedback to report.

Zealous_fantasy5D53
Participant
October 12, 2023

First example with an old f/8 photo looks OK at first, but at 100% the edges are quite jagged and not well defined. Depth maps seem to do OK job. Subject / background selection precision is where it really needs work

Eager_visionary5D53
Participating Frequently
October 12, 2023

I want to change the masking around the bokeh, This image was hard to fix. The bokeh looks nice. 
Is it some way to solve the problem? Why not use the masks and change exactly what you want instead.