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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Sep 27, 2023 3:54 PM UTC
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P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

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:

Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you!

 

 

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Participant
Oct 29, 2023 12:17 PM UTC

This has made 20 % of my photos a hundred times better than what they were before. " WOW "

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Participant
Oct 29, 2023 10:21 AM UTC

Love it makes images stabd out more

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danielp13916027
Participant
Oct 29, 2023 1:09 AM UTC

it takes up the strg+9 shortcut of calibration which has been part of my workflow for ages now. is there a way to change that back? or what is the new shortcut for calibration?

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Adobe Employee
Oct 31, 2023 4:21 AM UTC

@danielp13916027  The shortcuts for the panels are assigned dynmically based on the order of the panels. You can customize the order as per your requirements by right-clicking on any of the panel headers. Based on your final order of panels, LrC will assign the shortcuts to each of them. Don't forget to restart LrC once after customisation.

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danielp13916027
Participant
Oct 31, 2023 11:30 AM UTC

thank you sir this saved my workflow ❤️ thanks a lot XD 

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Participant
Oct 29, 2023 12:13 AM UTC

It would be better if incorporated into masking. i.e. When selecting a subject of several objects covering a foreground, the AI misses some and, therefore, does not limit the blur to the background.

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Participant
Oct 28, 2023 11:12 PM UTC

After tryining it once: I can see I will have fun with this.  It was fairly intuitive to figure out.

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Participant
Oct 28, 2023 10:46 PM UTC

Excelente, fácil de utilizar.

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Uncle Pete
Participant
Oct 28, 2023 8:10 PM UTC

Hey Adobe, being an analog and digital shooter I am everything but a friend of over computerized digital pics. Nevertheless, just tonight, I developed a picture where I was so happy to have this tool available! Furthermore, I was able to dose the effect very moderately. Good move. i like it and will only use it when really needed. 

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Known Participant
Oct 28, 2023 7:17 PM UTC

I would like to have a way to defocus the entire image using this tool. Right now, I don't see a way to do that.

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johnrellis
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Oct 28, 2023 7:51 PM UTC

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@t.linn, "I would like to have a way to defocus the entire image using this tool. Right now, I don't see a way to do that."

 

 

Expand the Refine section by clicking on the triangle. Click Blur. Set Amount = 200, Size = 100, Feather = 0. Click and brush across the entire photo.

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Known Participant
Oct 29, 2023 3:42 AM UTC

Thank you, John.

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Parker_Burkett
Participant
Oct 28, 2023 6:20 PM UTC

Not sure if this has been stated/asked, but the ability to brush in an area that the AI missed.  I have had a few shots where I've tried the blur effect, and there is a small section of trees below an arm, or between the legs that LR doesn't apply the blur to, so it looks like iPhone portrait mode. Is this something that can be added? Is it already there and I've overlooked it?  

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johnrellis
Legend
Oct 28, 2023 7:54 PM UTC

@Parker_Burkett, "the ability to brush in an area that the AI missed."

 

See step 5 of the Help:

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

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Participant
Oct 28, 2023 3:44 PM UTC

Great addition.  I find that occasionally part of the subject is blurred when it should not be and some of the background is sharp when it should not be.  It would be helpful if there was an "add" and "subtract" feature to help with these cases.

 

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Adobe Employee
Oct 28, 2023 4:43 PM UTC

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

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