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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

Participant
October 26, 2023

It would be helpfull if there was a brush which you can use for adjustments on places where the lens blur wasn't correct.

I used the filter on a photo of a tree and between the branches, the filter wasn't correct. 

 

Adobe Employee
October 26, 2023

It is probably worthwhile to try out 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.

 

Participant
October 26, 2023

great feature, unfortuanely only worked once, now its just asking to leave a review and not letting me use it

Adobe Employee
October 26, 2023

Please try out the pinned reply at the top to see if it helps.

Participant
October 26, 2023

So far, seems like a really promising tool. A couple ideas:

  • It would be great to control the feather of the focal range (simulating f-stop to some degree)
  • It would also be great to be able to apply a softening to the entire image. Right now zeroing out the focal range eliminates the effect for some reason– this could be a great tool for adding a little image softness.
  • It would be great to be able to see areas painted in with the refinement tool (much like you can with brushes by toggling the overlay). 
Participant
October 26, 2023

j'adore ! laissez le moi s'il vous plait 🙂

 

Claudia Mori
Participant
October 26, 2023

I found this resource fantastic! It works very well in Camera Raw. A bit slow, but it does an excellent job. It's not working in LrC.

Adobe Employee
October 26, 2023

>It's not working in LrC.

 

Could you please explain? It should work similarly.

Participant
October 26, 2023

My Bokeh controls have dissapeared

Adobe Employee
October 26, 2023

Could you please show us what. you see? Are you running the new version of Lr?

Rokdoc
Participant
October 26, 2023

It crashed my LR app and corrupted the catalog.  LR fixed both so no chrisis

Roland_Rick
Known Participant
October 26, 2023

Quick usage looks awesome. BUT I would prefer another workflow, first mask, then apply blur. The current implementation with the Focus and Blur brush is extremly lagging, it is even not possible to finish a brush stroke without getting Mac OSs' busy beachball. That makes the usage of the blur tool when refining (what is despite of AI always necessary) extremly inconcenient. - I'd supplied the developpers with an original image, but unfortunately RAW/NEF Files are - for no reason that makes sense - not allowed to upload.

 

The mask of the blur tool can not be used in the Masking tool. This shoudn't be separated.

 

Besides, concerning the Masking tool: Unfortunately it is still not possible to intersect between e.g. Mask1 and Mask2. Intersection is only possible between the submasks of e.g. Mask1.

 

Best regards,

Roland

Participant
October 26, 2023

i like it.

Participant
October 26, 2023

Enjoying lens blur, as it's has a more defined effect than adjusting clarity/texture/sharpening. Hope this is going to be enabled for masks, like Gradients, and presets. Currently, it gets pretty slow on a top spec M1 MacBook, after using for a while. Looking forward to full release.