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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pfried89

Participant

Lens blur is fantastic. I'd love to see the option to change the blur type, especially motion blur.

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john hermit

Participant

I'm trying lens blur on a flower photographed in the midst of a field of grass that is the same color as the flower's stem. The effect is excellent, except for the algorithm's apparent categorization of the thinnest petals as part of the background - which means those flower parts are unnaturally blurred. The effect needs to have a way to signal that some objects or areas are (or are not) part of the foreground or background, much as one does when masking.

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john hermit

Participant

I'd retract my own post if I could, but I now see there IS a way to add or subtract from the blurred area (those buttons, "focus" and "blur"). However, when using the "focus" brush, I have found it sometimes spontaneously adds zigzag lines of focus across the photo, as if my mouse (trackball) were locked on (it's not), even as if I'd "painted" across areas where my pointer never traveled. And these additions do not respond to any Undo command. This seems like a glitch, anyone else experience this?

mark1894

Participating Frequently

I used this on a shot of an eagle landing and it worked well apart from the snow that was kicked up by the eagle, some remained and some disappeared giving a hard edge to where the snow flakes start and stop making them look like a poor AI attempt at snow. I get that might not be the use case but would be fab if it could decern dust, mud, snow, rain on the same plane as the subject and leave it alone.

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CPBeyers

Participant

I tried to use the Early Access Lens Blur in LrC on a mask created using the Mask tool and it didn't work, possibly from user error I'd guess. I tried using the Focal Range tool to blur the people in the background, but because the photo was of a small group of people on bleachers with some interlopers/photobombers behind them, the depth range was too shallow. As currently functioning the Lens Blur tool isn't capable of dealing with/differentiating with short distances. However, the blur it generated was impressive and believable.

humbarda96148481

Participant

It is amazing...you folks are super. One thing if it's possible is to add content aware feature when brushing subjects with focus or blur.

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criscap

Participant

tout bon

laxdad93

Participant

I like the Lens Blur. I have been editting a number of ice hockey photos and the tool comes in handy to blur extraneous background artifacts and I can draw focus to the players. As others have said it would be great to have an indicator in the filmstrip.

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jjaylad

Known Participant

Just a suggestion... pick a label color you aren't using for any specific
purpose and label Lens Blurred images with that.

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Fernando35839235rj7x

Participant

Just tried it for the first time and I am amazed! So easy to use. But as the other post said, an indicator in filmstrip as to which images have lens blur applied.

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Liam Larnach Photography

Participant

From a distance this tool works really well on portraits, but when you zoom in you can see the edging around hair and even in places where light meets shadows have become distorted

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tomf35092362

Participating Frequently

is it possible to add lens blur to the sync settings in camera raw .it would be usefull when a batch of action sport images are taken with a zoom kens such as the canon 100-500 mm lens

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