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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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    PhilShaffer
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2023

    I would like to see a slider that allows you to change the exposure on the areas out of focus, that would allow one to further emphasize the subject

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    SDGT
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Tried Lens Blur on photo of cannon.  It work fine except for missing some of the spaces between the wheel spokes.

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 24, 2023

    The Refine tool is good for this purpose. Expand the Refine collapsible widget to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

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    williamr42720831
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    This is amazing! Appreciate the refine options, I think this the area some folks said they were looking for, but may have not played with to find. Its quite intuitive and the bokeh choices is a fun addition. 

    Adobe, please remain awre that not everyone has the most up to date hardware or system, speaking about Apple Mac specifically. Want to upgrade but I am waiting for the AIO 27" or larger screen so I am limping along with a 2017 model and it cannot support Sonoma. Only goes as far as Ventura and I fear these great enhancements will leave behind the older models.

     

    Well done Adobe!

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 23, 2023

    We're in an era of rapid AI technology advancement... Adobe is only part of the eco-system.

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    PKinBFT
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    I love the potential.  Shallow depth of field is an important element in much of my photography.  Being able to add or accentuate it is a great tool.  I wasn't able to get through most of the other posts so much of this is likely redundant:  

     

    -  I tried using the Focus Brush as essentially an erase for the Blur Brush but I assume it's merely adding detail to that which was just blurred.  So I am guessing it adds two instances of processing artifacts to that part of the image.  A true Erase would be much more "transparent".    

    -  This is probably asking a lot to have blur applied as a layer so it can be more finely modified later in Photoshop (more magnification and better selection tools for masking etc. - as well as erase!) but I can dream.

    -  Applying blur similarly to how Gradients (linear, circular, etc.) are applied in PS would be handy, especially so with an Erase tool and better Selection/Masking tools to tweak the foreground.

    -  More sophisticated selection tools, akin to those in photoshop - color, lasso, would be useful for creating a more useful mask.

     

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 23, 2023

    @joshuabury gave a very good intro on how the focus/blur brush works https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-new-ai-powered-lens-blur-early-access-available-across-all-surfaces/m-p/14156810#M338999.

    porterhouse_89
    porterhouse_89
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Works ok, but does remind me a bit of iPhone portrait mode. I notice there's a brush to add more areas of focus, but not one to remove parts we don't want in focus? This would be a great addition

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    Adobe Employee
    simonsaith
    Adobe Employee
    October 23, 2023

    The same Refine tool that you use to add focus has a toggle to switch to add blur too. 

    Please checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

    Mathew L
    Mathew L
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2023

    Great to see this. When I have a photo with some existing lens blur, this creates "bubble" outlines on the out-of-focus subjects. So I guess it isn't yet designed to *add* lens blur to a photo that needs some more?

    timp1255760
    timp1255760
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Quite useful with a lot of potential. Deals well with large areas but less well were there are small gaps between subject and background, needing some adjustment with the focus and blur brush. Also does some odd 'bubbling' around edges sometimes.

    Some pictures also max out my processor, not a powerful one, whereas others are just fine. Not worked out a pattern to that yet.

    Generally a positive welcome to this feature,  I will make use of it.

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    giscellayne0101
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    É uma ferramenta que tem de tudo para ser perfeita, falta aprimorar a escolha da onde será feito o desfoque. Algumas áreas da foto o desfoque nao pega, mesmo sendo parte dofundo, poderia ser criado uma mascara para a gente conseguir colocar ou retirar esse desfoque de alguma area especifica.

    No exemplo que eu mandei o desfoque ficou no braço e não ficou em uma área do fundo, se tivesse como usar uma mascara, daria pra tirar ou colocar o desfoque.

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    Mirrorless Man
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    I would like to have a shortcut available to Lens Blur from my Loupedeck Live S, has anyone achieved this?

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    Anuradha Sarup
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Took me a while to get figure out it's features but now I love it. Would appreciate an 'object' masking selection to it not just brush and focus. 
    For someone who cannot carry heavy fast prime zooms required for a lot of wildlife photography, this feature is a wonderful gift! Thank you Adobe!!

     

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