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! Posted by:

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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:

Add Noise Option
Custom Bokeh

Stop by and give them a vote if they're of interest to you!

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adrianh84359280

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Default lens blur is too strong and looks artificial. Contrast in blurred areas also a bit too low. Moderately fine details such as insect antennae in macro shots get blurred even at minimum lens blur settings. Works quite well on edges of animal fur. Needs to be trained on more extensive and diverse set of images. Needs ability to toggle the lens blur overlay via "O" to see the extent of the mask visually.

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salvatorel50895943

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Le flou de l’objectif par défaut, est surement un excellent outil, toujours dans la modération, pour les petits insectes cela fonctionne moyennement, je dirai complique !

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adrianh84359280

Participating Frequently

Oui je suis d'accord. Si le flou de l'objectif est faible, cela fonctionne bien et aide à éliminer le bruit et les bandes de couleur dans les zones floues de l'arrière-plan. S'il est utilisé avec les paramètres par défaut, l'effet est très artificiel.

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E2Xtremes

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This has probably been suggested a million times, but let us apply this setting as part of a batch operation. Especially on import. It would save a lot of time if I could get the pc to do it overnight or while I'm away from the machine, and just come in, disable or adjust as I see fit.

Right now, it takes ~30sec per image and I have to sit idle the entire time.

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charles27825594210j

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Bonjour,

mon PC a un peu de mal mais le resultat est plutot satisfaisant si on reste raisonnable.. !!

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agvx

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Desde la última actualización la IA no hace su trabajo como lo venía haciendo creando la máscara seleccionando a las personas

sumner Buck Memphis TN

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I love it!

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miked97670349

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I do like the lens blur option. It works quite well. However, it does seem to have GPU processing issues on my PC. I've got i7, 64 GB RAM and 8 core processing 2.90GHZ per core, an NVIDA GEOFORCE GTX 1660 Ti and still have a bit of a lag.

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Barry27584142ivjo

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Hi Adobe, The Lens Blur feature certainly sounds interesting. I would really like to test it with a few photos, as long as there are no further charges!

Barry Patman

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allfish

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The new lens blur feature in Lightroom Classic is great! I have a suggestion. Most of the time in the area of blurring, we also want to darken that are somewhat to have less eye attention to the blur/darkened area. Would be really nice if a tool was added where we could add some level of darkening to the blur area.

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S2Vermont

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Pretty impressive considering the shot I used it with was mostly background, with only my dogs in the foreground.

The results look great to the untrained eye. I think a pro would say it was overdone.

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SUSANA340176404yhr

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Muito bom e sincronização automática seria melhor ainda.

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