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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Sep 27, 2023 3:54 PM UTC
Question

P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

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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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:47 PM UTC

Worked very well with little or no hair issues BUT had couple in a pickup truck and the selection was excellent except for where the back of the bed intersected with her shirt.. bed was fuzzed out in an arc along her shirt and unsalvageable.. so far so good but be careful

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:44 PM UTC

Works good. Maybe an edge refine to soften the subject/background. And an "add to" "subtract from" for the mask.

 

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:22 PM UTC

Should be able to selectively apply Lens Blur using selection tools

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:21 PM UTC

Ik gebruik hem vandaag voor het eerst maar ziet er goed uit ben benieuwd naar verdere resultaten 

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Chris Saul
Known Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:09 PM UTC

As others have said, subject detection sometimes misses part of subject (ear on left) or includes part of background with subject (on right). Note: this is an imported iPhone photo from Lr Mobile but Portrait Mode was not used in the original.

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Chris Saul
Known Participant
Oct 12, 2023 3:51 PM UTC

Trees in background take on very unnatural appearance above blur level of 15 or so

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John P R5
Participant
Oct 12, 2023 4:13 PM UTC

same experience on trees here

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 3:50 PM UTC

Very nice function, i am impressed, esay using

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 3:49 PM UTC

It seems a little gimmicky right now. I see the potential for sure, but it looked cut out on the images I tried. It also scares me to an extent. I said 10 years ago we're approaching the point where you'll point and shoot a camera, it'll take a bunch of pics in a flash, then you'll go home and choose the aperture and shutter speed. It's probably around the corner. I believe it's taking some of the field art out of the craft.

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Known Participant
Oct 12, 2023 3:29 PM UTC

For me, works great, better them use Blur > Lens Blur.
Arround soft details like hair it looks kind blur but, yup firts steps.
Good job

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Participating Frequently
Oct 12, 2023 3:41 PM UTC

For Photoshop users, instead of putting this inside Adobe Camera Raw, why not add it to the Photoshop Neural Filters panel ? This would allow us to place the correction on its own layer (current layer, smart filter, etc.) which would open the door to the many creative options which come with Photoshop layers which are too numerous to mention. 

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Participating Frequently
Oct 12, 2023 3:42 PM UTC

Sorry, didn't mean to post as a reply to the previous post, just meant as a reply to the discussion.

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Participant
Oct 12, 2023 3:23 PM UTC

I have it on my iPad it's updated and so is my app why do I have every feature but the lens blur help! 
It's on my phone but can't do it on my iPad but my iPad has all the other early access features but the lens blur

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