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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nreuben

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Quick reaction - I'm pretty impressed. I upvoted the add noise feature as working with converted negs that have grain, the boken wipes it out. Also would like to resue the mask with other tools - it should add to masks created elsewhere

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visionsofnature

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I really like it! Lots of great things like the Bokeh feature! Adding Bokeh can make the difference between a so-so picture and 1 that is VERY good, especially shaped Bokeh! Just add more shapes like hearts, stars, dog paws, and maple leaves! These are shapes in the homemade Bokeh filters I created for myself, and they add visual interest! Mitch

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Kereplaz

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Lens blur effect seems to be negated by the AI denoise feature for me, anyone experiencing this?

By negated i mean the "depth map" becomes nonsesical if I apply AI denoise after all the edits including lens blur are done. Subject is lost and the depth maps seems to be almost random.

I am attaching one photo with all of the edits including lens blur and another where ai denoise has been applied to that photo, and nothing else changed. I did not try to come up with a solution yet, if Ill manage to circumvent this, ill reply.

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Kereplaz

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If the Lens blur tool is ran for the first time on an already denoised photo the tool works fine. It means that after AI denoise is applied, LR need to reanalyze the lens blur tool before proceeding. The workaround nou is to completely reset the development and then redo the tool.

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CKSSmith

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First time using it when the distance from the subject to the background wall was only about a metre. I worked very well after a bit if refinement. Well done to the engineers!

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molly34661078ubtb

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incredible off the bat

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James Boncek

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Full mask tooling support, please.

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Norm34652004g9lx

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Used it for the first time (OS 13.14.1 c), LR 13.1 on a portrait of a boy jumping against a woodsy background. Some odd results around the boys head, possibly smearing of sunlit leaves. See attached close-ups. Let me know if you need to see an unedited file.

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jjaylad

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You can mask out those areas very easily using the brushes available. Click the 'Refine' button then select either the Focus or the Blur brush. In your case use the Blur brush, adjust the parameters shown below it to your liking and paint over those areas you feel are 'odd'. Only takes a few seconds per image to do that cleanup.

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Ailinon

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Sadly, it's nigh impossible to match the background's focus level. Currently, Focus is "white" and Blur is "black", with no way to pick "gray" as brush color - so the best you can do with the Amount and Flow dials is set its opacity - but if the background isn't ENTIRELY out of focus, just in a slightly further plane, you'll overblur it when trying to blur the border of the subject.

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dspmjlr

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Have tried this on a few photos of woods and Owl.. It works great.. Really love the feature.. Thanks for working to continue to make lightroom better and better..

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