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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brandon27813119zhkh

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I cannot get the analysing to work to completion. It freezes. I have to shut down computer and start all over again with GPU enables in preferences and it gives an error message. I have 2 GB on secondary GPU.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Please report your system info Lightroom>Help>System Info...

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cjl21177653

Participant

Excellent addition to LR. The implementation is perfect and the ability to visualize the changes live is fantastic. My only issue at the moment is that it struggles to work with the pressure sensitivity of my Xence Eos pen/tablet.

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Roy79

Participant

Love it

robertw78010893

Participant

having tried on a couple of photos very inpresive.

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mikesch081521495547

Participant

Not bad. But it doesn't work really good with some animals in foreground, like a dog is walking to you. The edge of his tail looks very unrealistic.

But keep going on, looks mostly fine.

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Etrephotography

Known Participant

Hasnt quite masked the subject so altough the first try was interestting, there is patches around the models head of sharp foilage where the mask hasnt selected the hairline correctly.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

The sliders under the Refine tool are there to help that (click the triangle). I agree that it's not always 100% accurate, but at least there are tools to help.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

björnw97523715

Participant

I find the feature very good, although it should be used with caution. I would find it helpful if you could manually select the point yourself first. Because the AI usually recognizes it incorrectly.

Sean McCormack

Community Expert

The tiny person icon lets you select a person as the focal point. Beside that is a rectangle. Click that to drag around the area you want in focus.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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JDob

Inspiring

The new Lens Blur panels looks like it's going to be really useful and save round trpping into Photoshop to achieve the same effect. I'd really like to see a way of visualizing where I've been brushing with the Focus and Blur brushes when refining the effect.

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Dirk32845912ydcv

Participant

I like it. Super

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groodo

Known Participant

The new feature is magnificent, but I think it's missing a parameter that I can't understand why it wasn't included from the start, which is to add noise. I can't believe any kind of lens blur if it doesn't have any noise. It's blatantly obvious that it was done in post-production. It's a basic thing that should be added.