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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Tubaróvisk

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Olá, gostaria de trazer aqui uma opinião em relação ao desfoque por IA.

Quando aplico o desfoque, por um acaso ele deixa as bordas brancas no cabelo ou nas arestas de algum objeto.

No momento não há opção que melhore isso no momento.

Poderiam analisar e criar uma ferramenta que modifique esse erro.

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Susan Allan Photography

Participant

Not sure how to get it to focus on a specific point; I shot a bird in a berry bush and the AI chose the berries instead of the bird as the point of sharp focus.... even selecting the birds eye did not make a difference.

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Daniel34049131dwue

Participant

it doesnt work

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gerhard.nmayer

Participant

it works, and pretty good, indeed

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Becky M

Participant

I have to say I played with this with some sceptisism. Pleasantly surprised though. It's worked brilliantly even on some images I took in heavy fog. It's managed to successfully differentiate between foggy in focus and out of focus back ground. It's brilliant. Echoing others though, I would love a little indicator that says which images have this applied and which don't as some images can't have heavy adjustment for competitions etc

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dmink

Participant

Very cool effect that looks practical for the most part. Would be great to add a brush masking capability so I can subtract an area that has been blurred as if it's in the background, but is actually part of the foreground.

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adrianh84359280

Participating Frequently

Agreed, that would be very useful. Needs to have ability to make mask visible via "O" key.

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Simon S Chen

Adobe Employee

There is the Refine tool that you are looking for.

Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

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SenseiBill

Participant

Honestly, it's not too bad for a little more help in faking the f stop. Thanks for letting us try it out.

Canon R5

f4.6

100-500mm

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Sharon34047238ahvo

Participant

I am very impressed with the lens blur feature. Would be nice to see something indicative on the film strip that the feature was used but not a necessity for me and what I use the program for. Much easier than trying to use the masking feature if the aparature wasn't set right.

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Kim248278032361

Participant

Love this new feature..it's a bit glitchy but the update did improve that a lot. WHEN will this be available for presets and copy/paste options??

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Adam Stumle

Participant

You need some kind of marker or something to pin what should be sharp, or the middle of the sharpest area. It would make the tool easier to use.

photo_bog_

Participant

The feature looks nice but it could probably benfit from a debth brush to change parts of the photo that are wrogly detected.
For example: I have a photo of two men and one is closer to the camera but the AI detected them in the same depth area.

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Simon S Chen

Adobe Employee

Were you able to discover the Refine tool in the UI section?

Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

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