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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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1380 replies

Participant
January 2, 2024

Great feature! I'd love to see an option in the future that allows you to apply it it multiple images at a time

Participant
January 2, 2024

I tried 3 images and got this result for all. 

Participant
January 2, 2024

Very impressive ! It looks good and is convincing images are produced  with this post processing "aperture selection".

Participant
January 2, 2024

Très bon résultat sur une photo à 2 niveaux. très content du résultat

Participant
January 1, 2024

Worked really well, but woudl be useful to be able to paint in/out areas of blur rather than just the current selection.

Known Participant
January 2, 2024

This is where the share feedback link in LrC takes us to. I started a separate discussion about a Lens Blur issue. Hopefully someone from Adobe will see this.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lens-blur-not-working-in-lrc-and-disables-option-to-use-graphics-processor/m-p/14328916#M351177

 

Participant
January 1, 2024

Great feture!!!

Known Participant
December 31, 2023

Lens Blur not working. produces: "Something went wrong" "There was an unexpected error...................

Tried changing display drivers but get the same error.

 

Lightroom Classic version: 13.1 [ 202312111226-41a494e8 ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition

Version: 11.0.22631

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 2.3GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

CPU Utilisation: 3.0%

Built-in memory: 16133.8 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2404.5MB / 1982.4MB (121%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 16133.8 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 3997.1 MB (24.7%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 4781.7 MB

GDI objects count: 836

USER objects count: 2693

Process handles count: 2507

Memory cache size: 10.2MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 16.1 [ 1728 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 102MB / 8066MB (1%)

Camera Raw real memory: 113MB / 16133MB (0%)

System DPI setting: 120 DPI

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Standard Preview Size: 1440 pixels

Displays: 1) 1920x1080

Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: Yes

 

Graphics Processor Info:

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 (31.0.15.4633)

Init State: GPU disconnected

User Preference: Auto

 

um GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_swap_control

 

 

Participant
January 1, 2024

Is your GPU selected in Presferences in Photshop and does it support directX 12?

Known Participant
January 1, 2024

When I start LR the NVIDIA GeForce MX250 is selected in Preferences in LR. When I run Lens Blur it starts analyzing but stops with the error message. Then when I check Preferences the NVIDIA GeForce MX250 has been disabled. Apparently the NVIDIA GeForce MX250 supports directx 12 but I am not familair with that. 

Participant
December 31, 2023

Não é possível usar ainda não, esta muito estranho.

Participant
December 31, 2023

Seems like cheating, but we have to keep up with those mobile phones! Absolutely love it!

Tim Mac

Participant
December 31, 2023

I absolutely love lens blur! It's also great for reducing noise in the background. I'd love to see what I assume is depth mapping used with other things like hue saturation etc