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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

itsmoretojab
Participant
October 22, 2023

Like it thus far! Tested it out on a headshot and the bokeh was good. Also liked how it had multiple bokeh options as well. Helped with the fly away hairs too haha. 

Participant
October 22, 2023

La sfocatura sembra essere buona

Participant
October 22, 2023

La sfocatura in se sembra fantastica

jennataliia
Participant
October 22, 2023

If there is a way to subtract the subject or a brush to subtract an area that would be great. The blur caught their hands a few times for me!

Adobe Employee
October 23, 2023

Yes. Expand the Refine collapsible widge to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

Participant
October 22, 2023

I am happy about this new function, which I first applied to people. It still needs a bit of tweaking, which the focus brush offers, but it's a joy. Until now, I have always placed a soft-focused photo on a new layer over a sharp photo and manually cleared the area to be focused.

dickk
Participant
October 22, 2023

The auto mask had trouble with shiny objects.  For example the round external mirrors on an old Jaguar (below) or the radio antenna on a 60's Cadillac were incorrectly blurred.  Manual correction worked well.  To be fair the automask to "select background" had the same issues.  Great tool overall!  I'm loving it!

Participant
October 22, 2023

I find that the feathuring is not adequate. Would prefer to some more subtlety in the transition from focus to OoF.

alfioansaloni
Participant
October 22, 2023

Sarebbe bello avere traccia di quello che si e fatto

 

Adobe Employee
October 23, 2023

If you're using LrClassic, there is the HIstory panel on the left that records each step of your edit.

Participant
October 22, 2023

This background blur too is just amazing. Great work!

Known Participant
October 22, 2023

It seems to be a resource hog. I've got a workstation that can easily handle multi-gig files in LR and PS and lens blur is really taking time to render the effect. The image is a bit complicated so maybe that can be the blame for now.