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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

Participant
November 11, 2023

On a quick tryout with a shoot, I love it - the result is a great retroactive DoF change. Looking forward to trying out the bokeh effects. 
Request: Like LR masking, it did make a small selection error or two, treating a small piece of foreground as background - so, how about a "subtraction" brush to correct errors like this?

Adobe Employee
November 14, 2023

Expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

Participant
November 11, 2023

lens blur is a great new feature that was added. I love the way it works. it will help me improve editing my pictures.

Studio N
Participant
November 11, 2023

This is a very cool feature! Would love some lens-specific blurs as well as a radial blur feature!

 

lucasfarizatto
Participant
November 10, 2023

They could add a button to save the black and white depth mask to be able to apply it to other masks in Photoshop

Known Participant
November 10, 2023

"Lens blur" offers many possibilities. I quickly started using it. However, I notice a problem as soon as I apply "lens blur".
The "Details" panel and the options "Radius", "Details", "Mask" in combination with the Alt key (black/white visualisation) no longer works or is painfully slow when appluing "lens blur".
When I no longer apply "lens blur", the "Details" panel works properly again.
I attached a screenshot of the details panel I was talking about.

Adobe Employee
November 11, 2023

The "Details" panel and the options "Radius", "Details", "Mask" in combination with the Alt key works for me with lens blur applied..

 

Please share your system info. Lightroom>Help>System Info... The first use of lens blur after a fresh install could be slow because the GPU would need to do some prep work to make the subsequent runs faster.

 

Known Participant
November 11, 2023

Do you mean by "fresh install" re-installing Lightroom Classic? I just do updates using Creative Cloud.

Appended I've added the system info.

 

Participant
November 10, 2023

definitely like using it, need someway of knowing which images have it.

 

Participant
November 10, 2023

Hi, I would like to see Les Blur added to the Synchronize Settings and Create Preset options, will be available in later itterations?

Adobe Employee
November 11, 2023

Yes.

rogerr19084174
Participant
November 10, 2023

Je suis en phase de découverte. Premier essai. Déjà satisfait.

Known Participant
November 10, 2023

I am currently running LrC and PS on a Windows 10 PC with 32GB RAM and no discrete graphics card. Lens Blur is prone to blackouts and slow rendering. If a graphics card would improve performance, can any one suggest a mid-range card (non-gaming) ?  I think I once read that Adobe recommends a card that runs at least 2000 OPS.

Participant
November 10, 2023
I bought a RTX2060 - 12 GB for that purpose, AI Denoise and AI Lens Blur
now run smoothly. I read that a RTX (or RX) Card is recommended because of
the Tensor Cores, that are needed for optimal AI processing.
Known Participant
November 10, 2023

Thanks for your reply. is that an nVidia card?

 

Participant
November 10, 2023

Great feature, I am impressed with how well the new AI works.