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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AlinneBorges

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acho que ele poderia se tornar algo mais rapido, assim como as outras funções. por ele ser demorado para analisar e acabar travando o Lr, iremos ter um tempo muito maior de trabalho por conta da espera.

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Ailinon

Participating Frequently

Importing/exporting the depth map image would help a lot, for those preferring to use external tools.

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oba-joba

Participant

I've been using Blur for a couple months now and it seems to be getting slower and slower. I'm running an MBP M1 Pro with 16GB memory and it has basically become unusable because it is so slow. I basically can't edit a photo with blur applied because it takes minutes to see the changes, and stops me from doing anything else in the app.

Deleted/Cleared my preferences, tried changing the GPU settings, updated to MacOS 14.2.1, cleaned up my disk to have > 100GB available, updated LR Classic. I'm not sure what else to try at this point.

Lightroom Classic version: 13.1 [ 202312111226-41a494e8 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-US
Operating system: Mac OS 14
Version: 14.2.1 [23C71]
Application architecture: arm64
Logical processor count: 10
Processor speed: NA
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 2,121.5 MB (12.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 431,034.2 MB
Memory cache size: 269.6MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 16.1 [ 1728 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 5386MB / 8191MB (65%)
Camera Raw real memory: 6216MB / 16384MB (37%)
Standard Preview Size: 4112 pixels
Displays: 1) 4112x2658

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Apple M1 Pro
Init State: GPU for Export supported by default
User Preference: Auto

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: /Users/user/Lightroom/Main Lightroom Catalog-v13.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/user/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Aperture/iPhoto Importer Plug-in
3) Canon Print Studio Pro
4) Flickr
5) LR/Enfuse
6) Nikon Tether Plugin
7) ON1 Resize AI 2023
😎 Show Focus Points
9) SmugMug
10) Topaz Photo AI

Config.lua flags: None

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Jacob thePhotographer

Participant

Quite surprising how 'intelligent' it is .
But at the transition between a clear blue sky and snowwy mountains or trees it creates an unnatural shadow.
Also the lowest setting with vey minimal blur is still ... a lot of blur .
Otherwise - very impressive !
Jacob in Australia

RandyBoback

Participant

Ive played with it quite a bit and what I find is:
Performance is fine. I have a I7-9700K with 80 GB ram and more storage space than Nasa, and the load is nothing like the noise reduction that keeps telling me 56 minutes to process.
However I have the following two issues. I get the feeling that they process remains aware of the original image frame to some extent. Like the vignetting, there seems to be an attempt to wrap itself into the original photo borders and not the panorama that I present to it. Also I would like to be able to have more control over the field, including using layers to apply it

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liatb75443391

Participant

Love this feature so far. Feedback thus far would be to allow a masking option so we can fix where the AI might've missed certain spots or gone too far on others

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Kathryn34687187ouwx

Participant

My system crashes every time I try to use this feature. ??

peterc28481749

Participant

Hi - Seems very effective. It would be good to add the 'Add' / 'Subtract' mask if possible - as this would help fix where the software is not quite picking up the actual depth and blurring some things that are aligned with the 'in focus' subject.

Peter Cox

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photos of my world

Participant

My first time trying it, have been avoiding it. It gave me a slight blur of the background which I liked. Will try it again.

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George Pucker Lips

Participant

The blur effect appears to be quite a boon to my objective in the egret photo which I think you have access to. Although I'm at a complete loss to understand your dashboard controls, the AI seemms to have done a reasonable job of picking out the background and applying blur to the background which I wish to de-emphasize. There have been a number of errors in all of the LRC AI selections of areas of interest....ie: some of the subtle areas around the neck and tail have been confused with sky background. The mask illustrator with its multi-colored fields gives some idea of which areas are affected but how can I make fine adjustments. The adjustment strip leaves me at a loss. I would greatly appreciate a demo video of all the controls.
Also I notice that my attempts to use your denoise option return an error message, claiming I am using JPEG or TIFF when I am simply using raw material loaded into LRC from my Mac Powerbook (fully updated). LRC converts all raw images to DNG (whatever that means....is this the source of the error message? I often have no alternative but to use the Topaz AI tools when I get these "error 1" messages, They are no help.
I look forward to your responses to my, possibly amateur, issues. Otherwise LRC has been a wonderful tool for my progress in photography.
(Adobe, please feel free to look through my latest download and modifications to see where I have tried to work out these issues.)

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