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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deanw20556551

Participant

I love this feature. Just had a chance to use it today and it seems to have worked perfectly. Excellent job!

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Fotomaker01RA

Known Participant

As an added feature to Ps ACR/Camera Raw Filter Lens Blur: I'd like to see the ability to save the Depth Map back to my Ps layer stack (just like with the Depth Blur neural filter) - after making Lens Blur adjustments. Thx.

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Allen Maestas

Participant

It's pretty amazing, but definitely resource hungry.

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Stéphane338856883ohi

Participant

Bonjour,

Concernant la fonction "flou de l'objectif", j'ai toujours la même erreur :

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Veuillez suivre la réponse épinglée en haut pour mettre à jour le pilote GPU de votre machine.

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HL Photoguy

Known Participant

It works pretty well. In a portrait I found that hair, especially dark hair loses definition and softness. It make the hair/head look like it is matted down. I used the manual adjustment to bring more of the frizzies into focus which made for a more natural look.

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Todd25265443a9y2

Participant

Love to be able to apply this in a masked off area.

I've used it on about 30-40 images. Works well and looks like a natural bokeh.

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Riv Dogg

Participant

This is a great feature, but I found two issues for me. Firstly the maximum degree of Blur is not enough. Secondly I needed to tidy up the blurred area, but the heal and clone brushes could not cope with what I wanted to do. I transfered to PS and did the job 'the hard way' , but was able to get exactly the result I wanted not the half way house I got in LR. I can see how the LR tools could be inproved, but in general as LR gets more powerful as it also becomes more complex which is not necessarily a good thing. PS inevitably adds more complexity, but perhaps that is what it is there for? I've always felt it should not be about LR v PS, but LR and PS and knowing when to move from one to the other.

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Lumnia5CD5

Participant

I just tried it out for the first time but I think I'd like to see a masking feature in the future so I can go in and edit the effect by hand.

vincentr36861937

Participant

I dont know if I just can't see it, but i'd like to be able to draw where i need blurred to adjust it slightly. I thought I saw it in the camera raw side but I can't find it in the Lr side. Otherwise, I love it!

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Maybe you are referring to the Point/Area focus tool or the Refine tool?

Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

brynl44302093

Known Participant

Worked on one image, then came back with 'No photo seleted' on the next. Tried it again on another image, and had the same issue. But if I go back to library view and re-select it, it shows in developer with the blur applied?

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brynl44302093

Known Participant

My mistake... I would delete this entry if I knew how... I had an unedited filter on, so as soon as the lens blur was applied it was nolonger unedited so dropped off the 'selected' list. School boy error. 😞

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LewisLevin

Participant

I would like to see a subject selection by detection or brush. Currently seems to be fooled by color range.