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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[simonsaith]

Try tweak the focus range controls or expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

[ITZIK LEVI]

It's an amazing tool, it helps me so much, I take photos with a background and sometimes it's wrinkled, and with this tool I fix everything in a few seconds, it's just such a shame that you can't easily activate it automatically on every photo by recording a preset, add the option This one is perfect!!!

[Divine_Dream6C13]

I could send several photos but trust me, this feature on LR is insane! Love it!!

[Brearley20]

first very quick look appears great, would be nice to be able to adjust exposure to the blurred area, would save an extra step for me as I like to use mask to select background and drop exposure back a fraction just to make the subject stand out a little more.

[Bentley B]

Is it possible to have the focal range in the masking section and dublicate into a mask with it's range converted to a mask? This way all features in the masking section would be available that would follow the amount of the blur applied. Also could atmosphic effect be added that is linked to the focal range, as in adding fog,rain,snow, etc?

[PadPhoto]

Hi

A fantastic new tool that seems to work very well in most cases.

Now and again though after analysing the image some elements of the image in the near range are identified as far range and the effect is ruined as a result.

Will there be a way to modify select parts of the image and change the depth from the purple range to the orange or yellow range, or visa versa?

I.E. select the affected area and pull forwards or push back.

Many Thanks

[simonsaith]

Yes. Expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

[Dustin R Photo]

Love it, but PLEASE add a Feather option.  The blur is incredible, but I can't use it often because the line around the subject is so hard that it make it look cut out and fake...

(sorry for the repost, but there was a typo in my previous comment that didn't make any sense)

[Hans Joachim26653963df8u]

Mein Rechner stürzt bei Anwenden der Objetifunschärfe jedes Mals ab.

Bitte Antwoer in deutscher Spreche, was iuch tun muss, um dieses zu verhindern.

Danke

[simonsaith]

Bitte befolgen Sie die oben angeheftete Antwort, um Ihren GPU-Treiber zu aktualisieren, oder versuchen Sie als letzten Ausweg die Problemumgehung.

[JSPortraitStudio]

Loved it but it does take some extra work so I got stuck on the wheel of torture for a bit. Thank you for all your hard work. You are amazing! ❤️

[NafiTafi]

This feature is a great addition. 

I feel like it will benefit more from a simple explanation of what each tool is and how to be used

For example, the Focus option - is this for bringing blurry images back into focus or selecting the area of the picture that needs to be in focus. Same with the blur. 

[simonsaith]

Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

[emilyw57435215]

I am excited about this new blur feature. I wish there was a paintbrush where you could manually adjust the mask.

[simonsaith]

Yes. There is one. Just expand the Refine collapsible widget in the lens blur UI to play with the focus/blur brush. Checkout Julieanne's nice tutorial video.

[Margaret279850727edl]

I love it!!!!

[FERNANDO335861699tg1]

Hola no me funciona Desenfoque de lente en Lightroom Classic, cunado marque Aplicar, me sale mensaje:

Algo a salido mal

se ha producido un error inesperado,por lo que la solicitud no se ha podido completar.

Que puede ser?

[simonsaith]

Probablemente sea un problema con el controlador de la GPU. Siga la respuesta fijada en la parte superior.

[SaraMarie1983]

It does not work for me, it gives me an error.  "There was an unexpected error and your request could not be completed".  Darn 😞

[simonsaith]

Follow the pinned reply at the top.

[Vlad33592125oy3f]

i like it

[Oscar33597596hpav]

Good fiture

[bethsorrento]

I 

Early days but I like the lens blur.  As yet I have not found aspects that I would like to include or change.

[antong84670812]

After applying lens blur healing brush not works correctly

[9LTStudio]

This is an awesome addition to the suit and let alone to camera raw, I use to spend hours doing this. One thing that I would recommend though is more of a bokah (However this word is spelled). Other than this one minor tweek, haha right.... But this is the a great addition and has saved me a lot of time in post. Thank you So MUCH ADOBE.