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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.

  • 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
May 9, 2024
if you apply the lens blur heavily, the size of the jpeg becomes much smaller after exporting. 851 Kb vs 1,5 Mb.

  

 
gary_sc
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2024

@ruudv47029032 This is to be expected. Take a photo of a clear sky and compare that to a photo just of grass. The latter will be much larger than the former. Detail always gives a larger-stored image size.

stevehphoto
Participant
May 9, 2024

The Refine brushers are difficult to see, especially when adding blur back to small areas.

Participant
May 9, 2024

Saya juga setuju! Pada pandangan pertama - setelah beberapa gambar yang dikembangkan - saya sangat terkejut. Dan ya, indikator akan sangat membantu. 

Participant
May 9, 2024

I hope that lens blur can be synced to all photos

 

Participant
May 9, 2024

Love the feature! One problem I'm having is that I need a RESET button (or functioning UNDO). My touchscreen appears to have picked up some incorrect manual brushed edits to the focus, and the tool created several lines that I don't want (see attached). Ctrl+Z isn't doing anything and I need to restore the autodetected depths to start again. Thanks

Participant
May 8, 2024

Vou utilizar mais vezes para poder avaliar mas inicialmente comparando o antes e depois ficou incrível.

Participant
May 8, 2024

The AI lens tool in LRC is great, however, my Predator Helios 300 labours when applying the changes which it should not as this is a pwerful editing machine. the tool engine needs some work

 

Cliff Colreavy 

Participant
May 8, 2024

youre a wizzard harry, well done! love this

 

Participant
May 7, 2024

Being able to trace out with a cursor or even something like quick select in photohsop I think would be very useful. There's already a few photos where the general shape of field is correct but there's like, one or two random patches in the middle that get blurred, and the only way to change that is to completely alter the field

Robert Hewitt Images
Participating Frequently
May 7, 2024

I keep getting "Something went wrong" messages which come after a signifiacnt wait time.  For my set up this clearly is not release ready.......  I beleive I am running the latest versions of LR and also Windows etc (ie not a Mac).

Robert Hewitt