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: Add Noise Option Custom Bokeh Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you! Posted by:

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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:

Add Noise Option
Custom Bokeh

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

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Art4hire

Participating Frequently

I'm getting artifacts - especially among high contrast areas. So far, it's not for me... but I've only tried it once. Stay tuned...

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danculloa

Participant

This is a great feature, can you incorporate it with the masking in LR Classic.

regards DanC

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TanyaThree

Inspiring

The blur on the brick wall in this picture is too white - the average tone should be the same as the original picture. On the plus side, Lens blur works pretty well with the blow out sky peeking through the tree branches.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

You can experiment with the lens blur's Highlight Boost amount slider to reduce the highlight.

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TanyaThree

Inspiring

Thanks. Dragging the Boost all the way to zero improves it, but it is still a little too white.

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rvunen

Participating Frequently

Hi all
This feature should be integrated into the masking of Lightroom. What happens now is that after creating a good mask you run into the same issues detecting a person as they exist in masking so you have to do everything again. What is not good at all is having an Intel i9 processor with 64 GB of RAM and the fastest NVMe drive you can get Lens Blur is really really slow. And it suffers the same issue as the Blur tool in masking: it is really slow and catching up it catches the movements of your mouse going to the menus while waiting for the Brush to finish its job. On my computer that could be up to 10 seconds or more. My friend has a Macbook Pro with 32 GB and it is the same thing. Lightroom is terribly slow and activating this feature makes the processing of the catalog even more slow. Could you please take a look at the performance of Lightroom Classic, because it is unbeleavable slow when you use larger pictures - 31 MB raw in my case and 60 MB in my friends case.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Try lower the zoom level of the loupe display during brushing. It might help.

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Henning33053670fdxc

Participant

I would like to see anamorphic squeeze in the unsharp areas, in the bokehs

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FinnK-foto

Participant

I would like blur to work with masks!

gifted_Rocket98A1

Participant

It's a great tool. I take photos for an animal shelter for social media that require the subject to be nicely in focus but messy backgrounds to be blurred out. The tool is lightning fast and although it is not as completely accurate as selecting and masking in photoshop it is good enough for social media and a great help.

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M Afrizal30865816t74y

Participant

How do I use the newest lens blur feature? I want to try and experience it now

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Check out Julieanne's tutorial video.

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Lara25730806r6yn

Participant

Wouldn't work for me - just stopped in the analyzation process and said something went wrong

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Toinbach

Participant

I've had to change my computer because the (admittedly 8 years old) PC was not up to AI computations. I could have renewed the video card (whose GPU does most - if not all - AI calculations) much more cheaply but it would still have been working in a PCI slot that is somewhat slower than modern PCIe slots.

Tony

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Please report your system info via Lightroom>Help>System Info...

If you encounter GPU driver issues while using ML features in LrClassic/LrD/ACR, please try to update to the latest macOS version or if you are on a Windows machine, follow https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html to update your machine to the latest GPU driver and see if the problem resolves itself.

If the OS or the driver is not available or possible and the problem persists, then try the following workaround method as a last resort. The method provides a mechanism to allow LrDesktop/LrClassic/ACR customers to force the ML inference to always run on CPU instead of default. See details here https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#lens-blur