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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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Robert Hewitt Images
Participating Frequently
March 20, 2024

I have already commented on the slowness.  But the few images I have tried it seem to retrun an error message, and then I find the system does not work so have to close down and reload.  So whilst I like teh idea, it is not usable for me yet ....

 

Robert Hewitt
Known Participant
March 20, 2024
I've noticed that this feature is a processor, RAM, and Graphics Card hog.
I have an I9 processor with 32 GB of RAM and a 10 GB Nvidia graphics card
and it still sometimes hesitates. It works great, but I can tell it's using
all my PC's resources, and sometimes just quits working. This is more
prominent if I have been using the PC for photo editing for a few hours.
Sometimes, it's better to reboot and start over.

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March 20, 2024

I USE M2 16MB macbook air and lens blur take for ever. Slows down lightroom. Almost hard to use.

jerryn67354783
Participant
March 20, 2024

I used lens blur and when I attempted to undo, Lightroom blurred the entire photo and locked up completely. When  restarted, I was able to use lens blur with no problem.

jerryn67354783
Participant
March 21, 2024

I also just updated Lightroom and Lens blur is working well and seems to work very fast now as oppossed to when I first tried it. I really like but I need to learn how to fine tune in some instances.

Participant
March 20, 2024

I find that it doesn't work great with dogs (the furr becomes strange)

Participant
March 19, 2024

Works fairly well. Definitely needs a tool to unblur certain areas sincee it has a little trouble on close up white areas instead of focusing primarily on backgrounds.

 

jbwalker photography
Participant
March 19, 2024

I applaud Adobe for adding this type opf edit.  I'll try it on some other images.  The one image I selected from my inventory didn't seem to make much of a change as I worked through the Lens Blur sliders and various options.  But I think I saw enough it promises to have a positive impact.  Jim

Participant
March 19, 2024

With regular mistakes of depth analysis, having the same tools as for masking (object, luminosity, person, etc.) would be really helpful for refining the depth mask. At minimum the object selection tool would be available.  

Participant
March 19, 2024

good

 

Participant
March 18, 2024

after lens bur applied I encounter huge slow down of my entire work in Lighroom, please fix it urgentky as I can't use the lens blur , Thanks a lot !

Participant
March 18, 2024

I think this will be wonderful when perfected.  Right now it takes much too long on my computer, i.e. several minutes before it finishes processing.  I have 32 GB RAM and a processor that is about four years old, so I don't think it should be this slow.