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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John32867959gvj5

Participant

Looks great - a progress bar, rather than a spinny circle to give an indication of wait time during analysing would be helpful.

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o2cui2i

Participant

please give the option to have everything reset to zero next use like with the mask

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Press the Alt/Option button to show the reset button.

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Kayla30271140ks29

Participant

Is anyone else having an issue with an errror message?

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Misty21630044375p

Participant

I just played around with the lens blur, loving the way it looks! Only complaint would be to figure out a Solution so that fly away hairs dont look so unnatural .

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wfroyce

Participating Frequently

IMHO it could use a Subtract/Add masking feature to correct for the subject not being selected accurately. You could use the brush tool to tweak the subject selection

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

See Sean's post https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-new-ai-powered-lens-blur-early-access-available-across-all-surfaces/m-p/14150729#M338428

JBedfordPhoto

Inspiring

I think it's looking pretty good. I was expecting it to look digital, but it does look quite optical. Nice job. Looking forward to seeing the refinements suggested by others here.

Very happy to see all the work that's going into LR these days. In the near future, I hope this ingenuity can carry over to performance improvements in the Library Module, too.

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Lisa32866559k7gy

Participant

Loved the blur and focus, right off the bat I didn't have a problem. I would like to be able to toggle off and on to see the difference. But exciteed to continue to play around. I think it's a great addition.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

There is an eye icon on the left of the section title bar. You can press and hold to toggle it off temporarily.

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timd33575978

Participant

Quick and easy to use to add realistic blurred backgrounds to your photos.

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philort

Participant

Playing around with Lens Blur for a few hours and I am very happy with this feature as it helps those of us who are poor and can not afford fast glass. I am having a few problems with the stray hairs, but this was my failing in not correcting them before using the Blur feature, This is truly a welcome addition to LRC. Thank you.

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geraldseligman

Participating Frequently

On my first 4 attempts, LR wasn't correctly identifying the subject. Rather, it was including some of the background. Is there a way, as in Masking, that I can add or subtract from the subject LR detected?