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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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September 27, 2023
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P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

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 commentaires

Participant
April 4, 2024

The feature is very slow in analysing photos at the moment. Secondly it picks up the wrong subject to remain in focus. So for me I'd like to see a speedier lens blur with the ability to point at the subject that should remain in focus.

Participating Frequently
April 3, 2024

Saved my bacon when I had a client sit in a window that doesn't look like it's been cleaned in awhile.  The lens blur cleaned the window!  

Participant
April 3, 2024

Quick reaction on first time trying this.

 

I shoot prime lenses and mostly portraits. I tend to shoot tight and f1.8 or f2 often with a strict eye focus. This causes a rapid falloff in sharpness in a tight portrait and even full body.

 

For some reason even I'm not sure of (prehaps I'm frustrated with struggling autofocus on the Fujifilm GFX 100), I shot a session at f5. 

 

The :ens Blur feature seems a blunt tool. It grabbed the subject (3/4 figure) and extracted from scene and applied the lens blur to a mostly featureless background. That results in a weird effect... to me.

 

For a portrait it would be desirable for Lens Blur to at least go for an eye focus and create a map for the body roughly to allow the obviously less "forward" features to drop off.

 

I assume this is really asking a lot - but I'm already blown away by what you are doing in masking and such that I assume this is simply a matter of time. Still playing.

ianl14365047
Participant
April 2, 2024

I love the new feature. I am on a older i5 and while it is not lightning fast it really helps to take the focus off distractions I could not with the lens. The bokeh looks natural when toned down. Almost 1.6ish! 

Participant
April 2, 2024

I cannot get it to work. See the attached screen shot

Participant
April 2, 2024

I get the message below almost every time I TRY TO apply the lens blur tool. 

Participant
April 2, 2024

I get this everytime I attempt to use this option. Actually once it actually worked.

 

Participant
April 2, 2024

The addition of the lens blur in Lightroom Classic has been welcomed. I do a lot of sports images so being able to control the depth of field in post is game changing. The one  problem has been the goal net in football/soccer the AI has trouble bluring the backgroun without bluring  the net.
Looking forward to further improvements.

Participant
April 2, 2024

Can someone help me to blur everything behind the gate?  For some reason, several of the gold leaves on the gate (mostly lower right side)  get blurred.   Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. 

Participant
April 1, 2024

This feature is 100 times better than the optical blur feature in the neutral filter. I am amazed at how well this works and has bokeh options. I am in love with this really!!!!

Participant
April 1, 2024

Me parece una excelente herramienta. Saludos