P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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[tanyar55988521]

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

[danculloa]

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

regards  DanC

[Art4hire]

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...

[jkshyt]

I like it. I think I can get really creative with some of my older snapshots!

[Rich_S]

Whenever I use Lens Blur on my Mac, the internal fan runs and things really slow down. ☹️

Rich

[Rich_S]

I'm running Ventura on my 2017 Mac. My Mac is not compatible with the lastest macOS (Sonoma).

I'll try your work around.

[Robert Ripps]

I am running Ventura 13.6, and it works fine, but I have a new Mac Studio...

[Leianne29047601z6y2]

My mind is absoltely blown! I can not thank you all enough for this new feature! I was literally trying blur my background yesterday in PS & was watching tutorial after tutorial to figure it out, with a lot of frustration & no success. This just made all of my editing dreams come true!

[Gregor5C58]

aplying blur or an image that has clarity applied results in a lot of artifacts

[Walney Muniz]

Está incrivel esta opção! por muito tempo desejei este recurso diretamente no lightroom, estou gravando até videos de tutoriais para meus alunos de fotografia 😄 a ferramenta está trabalhando muito bem mesmo em um computador antigo como o meu (um Intel i3 gração 2) Parabéns a equipe de desenvolvimento! estou muito satisfeito com o recurso e espero que em nvoas atualizações seja possivel ajustar ruído e adicionar o efeito nas predefinições. 

[Bombdog]

This is of course a great feature which is embryonic in its massive potential. I did notice that a sufficiently devisive foreground element can fool it into a discontinuous background blur as seen here. It would therefore be useful to 'dropper' part of a successful blur for it to recognise continuity of it elsewhere in an image.

[LovesomePhoto]

On first use it's somewhat intuitive, however, I am getting hung up on how to adjust/correct the mask for areas it made an error in evaluating.

[simonsaith]

You can play with the brush based Refine tool. Check out Julieanne's tutorial video.

[MWilliford]

I would like to have the ability to add or subtract from the portion of the image being blurred, along with visualization like we now have in masking.  Thanks for bringing this and the other AI solutions - maybe sharpening (akin to Topaz) next?

[simonsaith]

Check out this thread https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-new-ai-powered-lens-blur-early-access... 

[R27791343w4qn]

TERRIBLE!  Freezes constantly!

[simonsaith]

Please share your system info via Lightroom>Help>System Info... Which part of the operation that causes it to freeze?

[robertkaplanphotography]

I am not the original author but share the same problem. Screen freezes and sometimes it refreshes after a few seconds with the desired adjustment and more often not. Making it unusable.

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[Simon S Chen]

Try reduce the screen resolution or work with zoom out level might help. Your CPU and GPU might be a little bit under-powered for the display setup.

[johnrellis]

@robertkaplanphotography, "DirectX: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (31.0.101.2125)"

That's a six-year-old graphics processor in 8th- and 9th-generation Intel chips, and Intel has moved it to its "legacy software support model".

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/search.html?ws=idsa-default#q=uhd%20graphics%20630&sort=rele...

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000091662/graphics.html 

which means they're not going to fixing most driver bugs.  LR's AI commands rely on bug-free drivers.

[zkaw]

First trial seems to work pretty well... good addition.

[Photo329782443q7x]

Can not use it. 

[Simon S Chen]

Please share you 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

[Photo329782443q7x]

Is it a VGA problem?

I updated it.

[Simon S Chen]

It means your GPU does not support full GPU acceleration. It should help if you follow the https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html#lens-blur.