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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Joachim27962572v7wn

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like the tool, does a nice seperation on subject and background 😉

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Benjamin247648709pqt

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Every now and then an object will not blur if it's very close to a subject. It would be very valuable to have a brush added to fix these areas when they appear.

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The Birdman of Panama

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I love the feature, but it has a difficult time with the tips of animal hairs or bird feathers. Lens Blur nearly always blurs these out along with the background. I've compared with with the background blur neural filter in Photoshop and, while Photoshop isn't perfect either, it's further along in this regard than Lens Blur. In the attached image, Lens Blur totally removed the fine hairs on the dog's right ear (left side of image).

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jonathan90265

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Same issue. Also, I hope Adobe plans to support DNG files!

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kbarre

Inspiring

I'm finding that I get considerably better edge results in images with busy backgrounds if I start with the Blur Amount set to something like 20, then refine the edge with the Blur brush, and then DECREASE the Blur Amount to something like 15.

I may be wrong, but it looks like it recomputes the entire background at that point, yielding cleaner edges in areas that had manual edits.

Neat feature. Will be very nice when it gets to a mature version.

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Rafael32944954y59y

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Estou gostando muito. I am really like it !

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Juall

Participant

It works flawlessly on mobile, I find it useless on a mac as it's really hard to understand how to use it, so that even the same object or person gets patially blurred.

mitchelange

Participant

Bonjour, Cette fonction est extraordinaire a continuer a développé et surtout la laisser dans les prochaine version. Je dois encore explorer les possibilité de celle-ci. Mais cela est déjà magnifique. ajouté les propositions des autres serait bien aussi. une option avec une échelle graduer dans la photo pour déterminer la profondeur de champs que l'ont veux clair et celle floue serait une vrai avancée. Merci

QueenFareeda

Participant

this is really cool! Just decided to throw it on a photo to try it and I was impressed

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Fabio Vivalda

Participant

I think it is an intersting option.

I was working on a particularly image of dear, and i was able to emphatize de figures of the animals from the background

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MacB70

Participant

The lens blur works quite well. Sometimes it would be good if it recognized the objects like the mask tool does. It would be great if these two tools could be combined in an additional function. My example is two people in a forest scene with a branch reaching towards the focus. It looks very strange that this branch with the people remains super sharp. Although the algorithm is correct here, if I also blur the branch, the image looks more pleasing to the viewer.

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