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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rickb-sgu

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I like it a lot! It really helps the foreground stand out. The bokeh setting is amazing for night shots.

Something I wonder: can a mask be created from the blurred region? I like to further manipulate the background - I've noticed that the blue effect seems to be more precise the separating the background than the background or subject masks. Making a mask from the blur could be useful, IMHO.

Thanks

royw1234567

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Totally agree.

Allen34442459u18i

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This is a bummer, the copy-and-paste workflow feature should have been added so users can determine if it's something they would like, the feature is really good and useful. it adds more depth to images but it would be nice if users could copy and paste the setting even though it's an early access feature. PS What other new features are yall holding back on. 😄

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Ritik34945623kkhl

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osm tool

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Jefenator

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So this is also good for changing my mind after the fact.

If I could re-shoot this, I probably wouldn't use f/11; I'd open up for more of an environmental portrait kind of look.

Well, what do you know!

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Jonathan35161237jdnq

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Having the ability to adjust the AI filter with a Brush would be awesome, because sometimes background objects that are far back get caught up with the foreground subject, or vice versa, and there is no way to fix this.

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Jonathan35161237jdnq

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Nevermind!!!! The REFINE feature is there with the Brush!!!

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default0j54qibpting

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Somebody had to point that out to me! Couldn't find it on my own.

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bruceh5035976

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Easy and accurate. Works fine on my PC with no issues. Love it. Thank you.

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Imaginative_mentor15B9

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Well, this is interesting. First use on orchid portraits which I've already got pretty separated for depth of field. Seems to work well identifying subject and adding a bit more bokeh to background. I like that it doesn't go crazy. The effect is subtle. Don't know that I'll use this extensively as I work to get the effect in the field, but can imagine it being useful when my attention drifts to other aspects of the image. Cool! Thumbs up. Hardware is a 14" M1 Macbook Pro. Reasonably quick. Camera by the by is R5 with the RF 100-500 for these shots.

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Jefenator

Participant

How awesome is it to be able to go back & make my f/2.8 captures on APS-C look a little more like f/2 on full frame! Even in the "Early Access" phase, the success rate has been remarkable.

The effect seems to work particularly well for enhancing blur that is already there.

Like with most fun things, it is easy to overdo. Subtler applications seem much less prone to revealing artifacts & depth generation errors.

It would be nice to be able to reassign an entire masked-off region to a different depth - I don't quite get the appeal of that feathered brush tool for making those alterations.

The most obvious AI gaffes I've encountered thus far are when there is a chair back or counter ledge behind the subject and one side gets mapped conspicuously deeper than the other.

I do still prefer what I can achieve in-camera with a good lens and good framing. (I noticed practically none of my frames with the 55/1.8 seemed to need this tool.)

That said, distracting backgrounds will happen, and it's nice to have such an easy and effective option to rescue certain shots.

Bravo!

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G25475996ryuf

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unfortunately didn't blur the area between the subjects legs, adding a brush or other way to adjust focal points in a more specific areas would help with this issue

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JacquesCapeTown

Inspiring

Great feature, just needs an option to flip / reverse the blur mask. On a few occations, the foreground has been identified as the background and vice versa. A toggle to flip this depth inference would be useful.

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