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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debbieb5731239

Participant

I tried this on several types of subjects and street photos. I found it to be excellent. Depending on the clarity of the subject after blurring the background I needed to do a few cloning tweaks but nothing hard.

betsym9277220

Participant

Worked great and as I had hoped. No system issues and my subject stayed tack sharp.

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Carlos Leonar35106172w51w

Participant

Hola. No me funciona el desenfoque de lente en Lightroom Classic 13.1 me dice : Ha occurido un error inesperado. Necesito ayuda x favor. Gracias.

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Dee23196133k0oo

Participant

I think it was the distance of the photo! Seems to be working

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dee34815106b7jg

Participant

Game changer, but noticed after I did about 15 pics it wont allow me to use. Is this because its a "early access" ? Need to finish editing a group and it wont let me blur the backs of some of the latter shots

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sb2314

Known Participant

It may be a memory problem. Restart the computer and try not to have any
other programs running while using Lightroom/Photoshop. It may help.

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jeshua1812

Participant

I love this option. It has great promise. There doesn't seem to be a smooth transition between depth of field blur. It appears that sections are cut and have a definite distinction for each object. Also, Lightroom seems to lag more than the program in Photoshop beta—just my experience.

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stork20

Participant

Love this for portraits and to get that beautiful bokeh in the background. As some others have said, it would be nice to have control and mask out or make sure you select what you want to stay in focus. On some images, the system couldn't figure out what the subject was. I had a picture of a deer with a lot of foliage and it blurred out the foliage in the right corner only. So far, I love it. Needs a few tweaks though

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default0j54qibpting

Participating Frequently

I missed it and someone pointed it out to me - there's a refine option immediately under the focal range. In it are two masks - focus and blur. You can use it for some of the changes you might want to make.

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Ashwin34660240v6hp

Participant

Hi
This is a fantastic feature and it delivers as promised. However, there is much more that needs to be fulfilled to make it a great tool. For instance, When you use blur and review the image, you will find circles in certain parts of the photo, the bubble works better than the blur. In effect, despite the AI doing a phenomenal job of blurring the background and capturing the subject, we will still need to go Pixel by pixel to check if certain blurred out areas look artificial due to this effect. This seems to be an issue with Bokeh and bubble settings. Maybe its just me who is facing it but a lot of manual effort still needs to be undertaken to reverse the errors that blur causes and that would mean cleaning up a significant area to match the smoothness to remove the area where fringes appear

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itisgregory

Participating Frequently

I LOVE this new Lens Blur feature......PLEASE keep improving it! It can be a game changer. Here is how I will experiment with it. If I can't use an F2.8 to get nice blur then maybe this feature will give that nice blur when using an f4 or 5.6??

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mbbphoto

Participant

Works well...

2 requests:

1. Need to be able to mask the selection.

2. Need to be able to feather the mask edge.

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