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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[Helmholz Watson]

This tool will be amazing. An issue I have spotted is that sometimes you cannot tell LR to override a blurred spot. On the visualize depth tool, it shows that part of the pant leg is blurred, and I cannot use the focus brush to override that. 

[Simon S Chen]

You can try out the Refine tool. Expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

[monkay_mo]

So far, amazing. 

While there's a lot of control currently to create your desired look, it'd be brilliant if there were fast choices for different lens mimics such as 85mm, 90mm 105mm, etc

[jacques5E24]

it doesn't work and make the computer reboot

[John R Ellis]

@jacques5E24, try the troubleshooting steps in the pinned reply at the top of this thread.

[trentong30365675]

The tool will be very useful. The control over the blur (depth of field) is nice! My only concern is the effects the setting has on the edges of my portraits. My client's hair is no longer smooth. So, my only suggestion is to refine the edges. 

[Kerry33150703entl]

I was excited to try this feature to increase the blur of my background, but I don't see any difference when I adjust the slider.

[Simon S Chen]

For testing, try boost the blur amount to the right most point and press the eye icon to toggle the effect on/off to see if there is any difference. Then try to alter the focus range.

[Darren25519603zxa6]

seems like a potetially usefull tool. however, its making lightroom so slow to use now.im on a nearly new imac.if this persists i will have to revert back to a previous version (if possible). never had a single issue before the update. and yes, my mac is up to date.

[simonsaith]

Once you applied lens blur (or not), it should not keep the rest of the Lr slow. If you bring up the Activity monitor, do you see any activities there? It could be Lr is running some background process to keep the catalog up-to-date?

[camilamejia]

It is not working like the photoshop lens blur options, it is behaving like an iphone blur, which I don't like.

Details: In my case I tried it on a dog portrait on a trail with trees behind the dog, the dogs ear and fur were getting cut out a bit; and the blur didn't seem to have depth of field transition, it went dog focus and background blurred at the same level, just like iphone does. 

I am still happy to see that it started to be added on lightroom.

[joshh50527837]

I'm using it exclusively on cars (LRC) and overall I'm finding it to be extremely effective. The only issue I'm having is when the background includes the tops of trees against the sky where the very top branches are detected as being much further behind the rest of tree. Easy enough to mask out, but it would be fantastic to see this improved. Very usefull where I want to seperate the subject and background more than I was able to achieve on the shoot. Using Sony A7R IV, Nvidia GTX1080TI (latest studio drivers) and Windows 11 with no issues and working as expected.

[cyrilj13495265]

De momento la incorporación de la nueva opción me parece fántastica.... 

[Oluwadele28816663ugfp]

excellent AI there... keep it up

[mabe38]

It does not work. Here is my system info

Martin

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3) Flickr
4) HDR Efex Pro 2
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6) Radiant Photo
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[simonsaith]

Please see the pinned reply at the top. With the right driver, your GPU should work.

[sethkaye1]

I'd like to be able to set a default Blur Amount.

[Fotomaker01RA]

I just tried the Lens Blur using ACR via Ps 2024 (Win 11 Pro). I like the idea of it. And the depth map "visualize" capability, plus the choice of different types of bokeh (a few I'd never use - like the one(s) with concentric circles) - and wish there could be some other shapes options).

I also tried and like the ability to choose the focus point.

But, a downside is that the subject selection isn't also accurate. And, zooming in and painting to correct either what's missing & needs to be added to the blur area (or, vice versa) isn't that easy to work with and can cause halo-ing around the subject. I wish there was an Edge Aware (option) brush that could be set to Soft or Hard to be able to correct the areas that should be blurred or should be sharp but that weren't auto-selected properly.

Is the depth map exportable to (in my case) Ps (just like the Neural Filter option) so we can re-use it to make adjustments on other layers? That would be desirable!

Thx for exploring new features w/out us having to be using the Ps beta (which I wouldn't use...).

[Deonna5E2F]

I am loving the Lens Blur! It works very well in my opinion and is very easy to use!

[CelsodeSouza]

Boa noite. Testei esse desfoque e achei muito incrível, parabéns. Gostaria de sugerir que seja possível fazer o sincronismo de um ajusto para outras fotos assim como fazemos o sincronismo em outros ajustes.

[janer35285551]

I love this feature - selective lens blur - extremely useful to me!

[tonyweegphotography]

This is rad! First take, first pass, and it made a really cool change to the background that was already creamy.  Thank you! Great feature.

[jackylynn132]

Blur gets weird around fly-away hair, so a refinement option would be great.  It also has slow processing time of several seconds.  Would be nice if you can copy/paste the edits in your workflow/presets.  Overall, love the feature...but just has some fine tuning and bugs to work out.  

[John R Ellis]

@jackylynn132, "Would be nice if you can copy/paste the edits in your workflow"

I expect Adobe will implement copy/sync/presets for Lens Blur eventually, but while you're waiting, you can use the Copy Settings plugin.

[Sandy33176601jnpy]

Hi Rikk  I enjoy using the Blur feature, after much playing around I did notice one small hiccup, I shot a lorikeet behind a heavily green background of bush, now the blur feature blurred out a part of the far wing (similar colour to bgrnd) whereby the rest os the wing further away (and the rest of the bird) were in focus.