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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Colorist Karen

Participating Frequently

The + button to add new refinement regions for the depth map sometimes disappears after clicking, and there's no way to get it back....

-----------------------------I have a 5900X, an RTX 3090 and 128GB of RAM. Yet Lightroom chokes on a fricking 24MP photo.

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delenb1672758

Participant

I have been trying the blur tool on somewhat less simple subjects and cannot get an accurate break on certain areas of the subject. The current early release model seems to be set up sort of like luminance with the slider for depth. If the blur were in the presence section of basic as a slider (like texture and clarity) and the blur was applied to the masked background, then it would be perfect. You could even break the background in to background 1 and background 2, etc. I can achieve close to the same effect using the t and c sliders and do so on practically all of my images to verying degrees. Not knowing the behind the scenes manner these effects are coded, I have no idea of course if this suggested alternative approach is realistic.

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Colorist Karen

Participating Frequently

Please allow us to generate the depth maps beforehand for a batch of images as a background task, doing it one by one and waiting for it to generate per image is extremely time consuming.

-----------------------------I have a 5900X, an RTX 3090 and 128GB of RAM. Yet Lightroom chokes on a fricking 24MP photo.

johnrellis

Legend

@Colorist Karen, "Please allow us to generate the depth maps beforehand for a batch of images as a background task, doing it one by one and waiting for it to generate per image is extremely time consuming."

I'm sure that support for Copy/Sync/Auto Sync of Lens Blur will be added in future releases. While waiting, you can use the Copy Settings plugin to enable or disable lens blur on multiple selected photos at once and do something else while Update AI Settings is running. (Lens Blur, like Denoise, is very compute-intensive.)

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DD332749211gha

Participant

Lens blur works well

daniellef3082181

Participant

Please make this sync like the other masks

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robing17958293

Participant

when I tried to add lens blur to a picture of a child on a rope played ground, sections of the rope that were still in focus disappeared . . . or became very blurry when the rope immediately adjacent remained in focus.

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Simon S Chen

Adobe Employee

Try use the Refine tool. Expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

Waymarsh

Participant

Neat but--

I had some horizontal bars across the photo that were in the foreground, but the program thought they were in the background, and blurred them.

I tried to use the Refine tools, but couldn't invest the time. The Refine tools should work exactly like the Object tools, with brush and selector, and I should be able to see where the refinements are, with an icon, and delete them, instead of undoing my way out. Thanks.

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Ivy33270300vcze

Participant

FINALLYYYYYY! I try and attempt these fixes using the lens correction blur and (obviously) can never quite achieve what I'm hoping for. I use the lightroom classic and cant wait for this to go into full user mode!

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Disilusionist

Participating Frequently

I have 2 requests.... My workflow includes creating a DNG or TIFF copy of the RAW original. I then auto-sync my edits made to both. Sometimes there are multiple files in a sequence that are included in the syncronized edit. Request #1 is to allow auto sync for lens blur. The next request #2 is to allow the use of the masking tool to add, subtract or intersect with the lens blur effect... basically add it to the masking tools.

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Christina33262785mbuw

Participant

Loving this feature. It is something I will be using A LOT! I would however like a way to select specific pixels to blur more than just the circle selctor. Would like to option to have the ability to be more refined. Would also like to see which photos Len Blur is applied to on filmstrip for quick referencing. Over all really fun playing with it.

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