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September 27, 2023
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P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

  • September 27, 2023
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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:

Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you!

 

 

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1380 replies

Participant
February 5, 2024

https://youtu.be/9Tva1zmNMWY?si=EdOsCSevDx17vtgI

This quick tutorial helped me a lot.

Using "Auto Mask" and the "Amount" slider I've managed to reassign some pretty specific regions to the depth of my choosing.

Participating Frequently
February 5, 2024

This tutorial answers many of the questions and concerns in this thread. Great share - thank you!

drclearly
Participant
February 5, 2024

This is a stupendous feature. Thank you very much for all the work and for giving us a crack in early access.

One issue I noticed is that I can modify the focus using the brushes up to a point and then it won't accept further modifications. (Maybe I need to be more careful and thus not need so many corrections.)

Thanks again!

Participant
February 5, 2024

Overall, I love the added feature and hope it continues to be refined.

Participant
February 4, 2024

It would be greqt if one could erase a section of the desired subjecdt which has unintentionally been blurred... an eraser... 🤓. What a great tool! 👏

 

 

 

 

 

Participating Frequently
February 4, 2024

It's there - check out the refine option, right under the focal range. I missed it too.

Participant
February 4, 2024

I find it a very usfule tool I could blur the background of a portrait where the talent could not stand a away from the background. 

Participant
February 4, 2024

Great tool, love it, its works fine  at my setup. Thanks

 

mayerl
Participant
February 4, 2024

I've used it on 4 Nikopn raw photos today. I did normal editing (basic adjustments, masking areas with further adjustments). I applied blur. It would lock up if vignetting effect was added before blur, or it would lock up after the blurring when I then added vignetting.

Participant
February 3, 2024

Used on a couple of photos and love that I have the ability to add some bokah to my photos without going outside of lightroom.  

 

Is there a way to "flag" or otherwise mark the photos that I have processed in the filmstrip?  Or have it listed on the attributes page in the library?

 

Participant
February 2, 2024

Memory hog or memory leak?  When activated blur spikes memory usage from about 7g to almost 15g on 16g system as reported task manager. After processing a blur memory usage stays high, killing system poerformance. LR system info only reports 7.8g used. Closing Lightroom returns memory usage to sub 5g.

 

Have had LR crash twice also when while waiting for system to return to responsive.

 

Intel I7-8700 3.2Ghz, 16g ram, Nvidia GTX 1070

Participant
February 2, 2024

superbe idée, mais il faudrait qu'il soit plus précis notammennt au niveau des cheveux et du contour des personnes. Peut etre retravailler mieux le flou car il a tendance a déformé certain élément de manière pas tres naturel