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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Elkenmelken

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great feature in LR - would be even better if could be applied to masks

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rmcbjc

Participant

is there or will there be a mask to take away blur in an area that it was not suppose to be. It did a nice job on the backround in my phoot but also did just a little bit of someones face that was not truely in backround. i would've used it if i could have erased?masked it off the face on the preson

johnrellis

Legend

@rmcbjc, "is there or will there be a mask to take away blur in an area that it was not suppose to be."

See step 5 of the Help:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lens-blur.html

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robert jeanf47154025

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On a WIN 20 22h2 computer Ruyzen 7 5700 Nividia GTX 3060 12 Gb, the blur function caused 3 times an unrecoverable fatal error on the GPU thus disconnected in the session.

The effect of the blur is completely unconsistent and unpredictable. The function apperas to be up to now highly unstable. Moreover the effect viewed in ACR is not retrieved in PS where the visible effect is much much lighter.

Hope this helps for developpers to eliminate early bugs

Bob

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robert jeanf47154025

Participant

I meant WIN 10 of course

francop13010581

Participant

Indeed is a good aditive, as far as I have been taking it to test. It is an improvement by far than having to mask the background and lower the shrapness. The details on the bokeh are stuning. Hope to enjoy giving more use to it

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rica94814214

Participant

I'm liking the lens blur alot. Just have one suggestion. The initial mask calculation for the focus mask should be more generous. Since the task is to sharpen. I am finding some objects that are missing brighter sections that are contained within surrounding darker parts of the masked object. Its fixable with the adjustment, but since that task is to sharpen seems it would do no harm to strenthen the calculation to include more than less. I can see that this might not work on a busy photo with lots of overlapping focus/blur sections. But for isolated objects like flying birds in a blue sky, It would work better. first image is after I tweeked the mask of each bird and the second is as it was originally calculated.

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Diuna

Participant

Lens Blur. A very helpful tool, I am very satisfied

GraphiCoreOne

Participant

If we enable the Lens Blur function, a Depth map is created. Why, in this case, can’t you use this depth map in the Mask -> Range -> Depth Range section?

johnrellis

Legend

@GraphiCoreOne, "If we enable the Lens Blur function, a Depth map is created. Why, in this case, can’t you use this depth map in the Mask -> Range -> Depth Range section?"

~~Lens Blur does use a camera-produced depth map, according to the Adobe Help. But see the discussion here.~~

Oops, I misunderstood your question, which is a good one.

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delenb1672758

Participant

In my earl;ier reply, I had not discovered the "refine" section, so it appears you have already addressed my problem. I will work with the refine section to see if I can narrow my focus / blur boundries. Thank you!

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Trevor33283919flg1

Participant

Wow!! How did I miss that?? Thank you so much 🙂

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Trevor33283919flg1

Participant

I dont know if it would be possible to tweak the blur using a brush like you can with a mask but that would be handy to me, a few times the ai has recognised part of the subjec as background and vice versa. if i could take away or add that would be amazing. Overall though im loving this feature!!! well done Adobe 🙂

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talrez_

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It gives portret mode on ipone. im not a fan..

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