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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tzurlis

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suppose to be easy, it's the other way around. hard to use. very slow and stacks the soft. another good idea brought to trash by adobe extremely bad software management, remarkable bad programming and most horrible UI. u are the best company ever in spending mountains of money on the most worse UI and bulky, bad, heavy programming.

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default9yzu2sf4pnuj

Participant

I'd love to see some advanced masking adding to this.
Working on a wide angle photo of a guitarist pounting the neck of the guitar at me.

The AI doesn't recognize the guitar neck as the subject is suppose, making it just as blury as the background 10ft behind them.

Maybe some kind of overlay toggle for us picky people that like to switch it on and off while making

tweaks lol.

All in all a welcome addition, has worked nicely on a number of other photos.

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default9yzu2sf4pnuj

Participant

Ha, the visualize depth didnt show anything at first click. Now I see! lol

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

There is also the Refine tool that you can play with. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

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rachelg18636813

Participant

Great tool to the already fabulous LR! Thank you for always improving your software. The only thing I have noticed with the blur tool is around hair lines and such it looks a little too "noticable". When fly aways look cut perfectly around the hairline it is obvious something has been done to the picture that is not natural. I think it depends on the background of the photo some too.

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Irose_57

Participant

Great addition to Lightroom! The only issue I've had is when I apply lens blur syncing the photo gets stuck in LrC. Remove the lens blur and syncs fine.

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Jimmy29198263p4bz

Participant

I dunno if it's just me but I'm finding that adjusting the slider for lens blur is just taking too long for the software to catch up. It starts at 50% default and moving it just a little seems to take forever to actually apply the percentage you want.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Go to Lightroom Preferences>Performance tab, see if you can turn on Use GPU Acceleration option.

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Jesse33672210trlq

Participant

Thank you so much for this I absolutely love it! Well done devs!

Freedman Photography

Participant

An excellent addition to Lightroom chanks

Noctua

Participant

It would be interesting to have the possibility to deselect or select some areas of the subject.

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Simon S Chen

Adobe Employee

You meant the Refine tool in the lens blur UI? Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

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chuckhas@gmail.com

Participating Frequently

I just tried this on one image and it is fantastic. I do bird photography and applied this feature to one of my images and it created the nicest bokeh ! As an amateur photographer who can't afford the fast f/2.8 lenses which produce this great bokeh, I can use this great feature on many/most of my bird images to produce that beautiful bokeh that we all strive for. Thank you adobe for this great feature!!!

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Stephen Byerley

Known Participant

Love the feature ! One thing that I noticed is that in clipped / severely underexposed areas, the blur function will tend to create color smudges (purple in my example).

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