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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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September 27, 2023
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P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

  • September 27, 2023
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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:

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

 

 

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1380 replies

ksmch
Participating Frequently
October 27, 2023

 

Adobe Employee
October 28, 2023

You should be able to use the Refine tool to touch it up. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

Participant
October 27, 2023

2019  27 inch imac- Lightroom Classic- slow. lots of spinning ball. No other app in background. like the result!

Adobe Employee
October 28, 2023

Do you have the GPU acceleration enabled in the Lightroom Preferences dialog?

Participant
October 27, 2023

Lens Blur feature repeatedly gives error message - Warning - "unexpected error" ?

johnrellis
Legend
October 27, 2023

@Andre63, try the steps in the pinned reply at the top of this thread.

Participant
November 1, 2023

Thanks John - tried but no success. I see someone else also had a similiar problem with Ryzen ... 

Participant
October 27, 2023

Fall off could be better on quick usage.

Participant
October 27, 2023

Utilisation intuitive claire, résultats pas toujours à la hauteur des attentes en particulie sur la reconnaissance de la profondeur de l'image

Participant
October 27, 2023

I noticed some odd effects, using standard settings. In the before/after partial screenshots, he guy in the background gets a very geometric treatment of his hair.

Adobe Employee
October 28, 2023

You might be able to use the Refine tool to touch it up. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

Participant
October 27, 2023

First time using lens blur and I love it!  Processed quickly and defined subject/background properly.   I used ACR 16.0 on macOS for editing.

Clips
Participant
October 26, 2023

So far so good. Some issues im having are similar to that of Aberration when dealing with images of high contrast, Darker subject against bright BG. I have a pixaltion. I know im pixel peeping at + 50 - 100 but I wish i had a feathering option to pull the blur in or push away from the edge of the subject. 

Participant
October 26, 2023

Please add a "refine edge" slider i the dialog box.

Known Participant
October 26, 2023

I woud like the blut brush and particulalrly slider to allow better definition between different grades of blur, so that one could make the depth of field effect more reaistic.