P: New AI-powered Lens Blur (Early Access) available across all surfaces.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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[Walmir0101]

Olá. Até o momento está tudo bem, funcionando perfeitamente e estou satisfeito com o desfoque, funciona muito bem .

[garyd03]

Hi

When I use lens blur it crashes my machine temporarily. Come up witha Not Responding message.

[Bentley B]

Implement a luminance slider that works with the depth mask value.

[joshuabury]

Can you share more details about what you are looking for here? It sounds like you are asking for something like the existing depth range mask feature, but that currently only works with photos that have an embedded depth map (such as iPhone portrait mode photos).

[Bentley B]

No, it is for the mask that is made for the lens blur which has a depth or range. Have that range with a luminance slider so one can change exsposure for the background and or foreground. This way you can further separate the in focus to the out of focus. I just thought that the mask is all ready there it should be reasonably easy to add. The graduation of the luminance would follow the adjustment you set for the blur. 

[joshuabury]

Ah, I see. Thank you for the feedback!

[DonH]

There seem to be several independent features that should work together:

• A way to select depth - either the depth range mask (for iphones...) or the new depth detection/refinement from blur
• General AI Selection masks - this depth selection should be just another option for selection
• Something to do with a selection - blur (new), exposure, etc (existing).

We seem to be getting point solutions (pardon the potential pun) rather than integrated features.

[karpo2021]

I have a girl with long smooth hair against the background of a brick wall. After using the filter, part of the hair on the top of the head was cut off as a wall (it was a place on the joint between the bricks - also dark). There was no correction brush

[karpo2021]

[Rajkapoor]

This is Excellent, analyzing and creating depth of field, exactly as a camera. Then applying selective lens blur / out-of-focus. And allowing us to select the area to be in focus or fine tuning. I wholeheartedly appreciate your creativity. 
All that which has to be done before clicking the camera, now we are able to do it in the Adobe Raw Interface.
Thank You very much.

[Sarahlizzy]

Love this! Makes my lens look much more expensive than it was!

[wagnergraphics]

Impressive. 
Saw loss of small hairs and if an image has visible ISO-Noise, that should be stable across the blurred background. Otherwiese it looks artificial very fast. maybe an option to overlay some noise ar an automatic.

[Philip32886729rigq]

Could not get it to load

[scottc399895]

I'm seeing a slight difference betweem the image when it's in the develop module and library module - like the mods to the image whle refining the blur and focus aren't applied till I go to the library module.

Ohter than that, it's gonna be another cool tool to have. Good job!

[jimmys98472634]

Frustrated. This feature makes my computer running very slow. 

[the_photo_artist]

I want to change the masking around the bokeh, This image was hard to fix. The bokeh looks nice. 
Is it some way to solve the problem? Why not use the masks and change exactly what you want instead. 

[LongLensPhotography]

First example with an old f/8 photo looks OK at first, but at 100% the edges are quite jagged and not well defined. Depth maps seem to do OK job. Subject / background selection precision is where it really needs work

[Robert Ripps]

Works pretty damn well for a first version! Effects seem to carry over to ACR 16 in Photoshop 25 properly. Will have to try it out on some more images & see if I have any specific feedback to report.

[kaganr96688082]

The brush is a useful tool, but it would be much more useful in some circumstances to have a way to drag out a blur in the same way you apply a linear gradient.

[oswaldom96253362]

A ferramenta é excelente mais várias vezes o programa cai durante o processamento, e tenho que reiniciar. Parabens pela ferramenta, desejando um pouco mais de estabilidade . 

[PacerFan]

Very first try: On a b&w shot. Wanted to blur the forground. Finding that only the left side got a little blurred, but the right appears unchaged!

[Ralph328902452ygh]

On first image  tested this utility accurately identified the subjects (three people in a posed outdoor photo) isolated them from the background and applied good background blur. Focal Range adjustment looks useful. The one slight issue (imperfection) I see is with hair masking - but I know that's always very diffcult to achieve accurately.

All in all very impressed with recent Lightroom improvements such as this, Denoise, Subject and Background masking....

[Hovering Hayden]

I'm not seeing a way to remove part of what's masked in the focal range. Even when I adjust the slider to yellow and pink, it's still showing purple on part of the image that is in the distant background. I would like to be able to remove part of it like how masking works. 

[wfroyce]

Near the bottom of the dialog box there is a drop down prompt labeled
"Refine". It allows you to brush on more focus areas or alternatively blur

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*Bill*

[JB818]

Seem to take a very long time to load the picture after applying the blur