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December 6, 2025
Question

Lens Blur Refinement Tools Greyed Out

  • December 6, 2025
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I've tried everything I can find online to fix this issue, and it's confusing because the tool USED to work (like a few weeks ago). I didn't make any changes on my computer or processing equipment - I just suddenly was unable to refine the lens blur. I tried toggling GPU off and on, restarting the program, restarting my computer, making sure my Lightroom was updated - nothing. Any thoughts on this? I'm having to transfer things back into Lightroom Classic in order to get edits done, losing countless hours of work.

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Community Manager
December 8, 2025

Hi @Je$, welcome to the community!
Could you share a bit more about what’s happening? For example, which version of Lightroom are you using? When you apply Lens Blur, do you see the message about estimating depth?
I just tested it on my end and Lens Blur along with the refinement tools worked fine, though they did take a moment to kick in after launching. You might try switching to a different image and then back to the one you want to use Lens Blur on, and see if that helps.
Thanks so much!
Alek

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