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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works well, make LrC faster, please

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AutoMatters & More

Known Participant

This is an awesome addition to Lightroom Classic. I took a picture of four cars crowded onto a museum floor and was able to adjust the focus with the tool to have one of the cars in mid-ground in-focus, another car very slightly behind the plane of the first car out-of-focus, another car even further back out-of-focus, and a partial car in the foreground out-of-focus. Then I selected the subject, inverted the selection, and slightly lowered the exposure level of everything except the feature car. I exported the photo into Topaz Photo AI to get rid of the noise (it was a poorly lit museum). The result was relatively quick and easy to accomplish, although the focus sliders were not intuitive for me to use.

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Sono.photos

Participant

I tried it on an old jpg and noticed that if I blur the front it blurs my logo as well

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chriswesselmanphotography

Participating Frequently

Good concise tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowcCT757kw

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Girish Thakur

Participant

Lens blur is excellant and very satisfactory.

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Sono.photos

Participant

lens blur works great, will a future update allow it to be copied / synced to other photos?

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Derek2185026924lr

Participant

Hi. I am struggling to get this feature to work in a predictable manner. At the moment the blur seems to be applied in patches across the image with no correlation to the depth. For example with a clear image of a person wearing a hat some parts of the hat are blurred but others are left in focus.

joshuabury

Adobe Employee

This sounds like a bug. Can you share screenshots showing the effect you are seeing?

Chris Saul

Known Participant

It's very helpful. I will say that high contrast edges of buildings against sky seem to have some very severe artifacts in my case above a blur amount of about 40

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CS Chua

Inspiring

The Blur isn't 100% accurate. So used the focus mask. Despite setting the feather to zero the resulting focus on the right hand (the Blur miss) has fuzzy edge, unlike the clean well define edge.
Need to improve the way focus masking with feather = zero works. I did the focus mask with zero feather at zoom-in.
Attached is the depth map before and after and the before and after photo.

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