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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[Brian4363]

I love the AI powered lens blur.  Works so well with my pictures and so easy to use.  Very nice!!

[Luther D]

One of the issues I do have with this is it doesn't aways recognize foreground from background. Especially if there is a busy foreground that shows a lot of background through the subject, i.e. such as a fence or a row of small trees. It is a bit of a pain to try and isolate but it can be done manually. I have shots of subjects mid depth and it did a great job detecting and isolating in an in picture natural frame. However it did not detect laterally as well.

[farishagung34153710e4mt]

how to early acces active?

[Snailgoo]

wow so good 🙂 only the option to visualize is not directly clear what is what

[Latoya34166073ttif]

very useful and nice function.
readjust the focus using a brush, for example if a line is missing, this would make the whole thing even rounder

[Latoya34166073ttif]

edit: I have now noticed that this already exists.
However, I would like to see more flexibility in terms of how strong the focus is

[james5C46]

good separation

[LauraMacky]

It's ok but I'd rather be able to apply lens blur to a mask.   The visualize depth section is hard to use if the subject I do NOT want blurred is hard to detect from a background due to similarity of color, etc.  I can't really use the brush because I can't see the image....I can only see the visualize depth colors.  You could also include an option to turn off the overlay which would help.

[Jean Pierre34169937bdr8]

Je viens tout juste essayer ce filtre sur une photo amateur de 1960, je suis assez content du résultat.

[Giles Bracher]

The blur and adjustability of the blur is awsome. 

The selection of the subject how ever not so. 😞 as well as the "manual" adjustment.  It might be possible to get a picure to look realistic but it takes so long to get the selection right, it is quicker to do the job another way.  

Ai Subject seletion done well i guess is not that far away?  I am looking forward to that. 🙂

a tool to help the ai work out what edges matter and what don't would be a big step, if its possible? 

[raymond28136499j3y0]

I have the same problem with Lens Blur as I do with Denoise. LR quickly graps all the RAM it can (around 12GB) and then goes into a solid system crash. No disk lights, black screen. I understand that my computer is not up to date, but I think you should be able to determine that it won't work before starting so it doesn't stop Windows and leave other files being edited  unsaved.  Updated GPU driver a month ago and it didn't help.

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[wolborsk]

Great feature.  Works best when the bokeh is already good.  Love the feature to move the DoF.

Would be nice to have it as an option in the Sync/Copy menu so it can be applied to multiple photos at once.

[TREI 1]

Used on an elephant  spraying mud over itself. Totally green background, and totally dark grey elephant including the mud and water spraying over the top of itself.  the blur unfortunately only grabbed the main body of the elephant, and none of the spray which is the same color and easily diferentiated from the green background.  It blurred the spray and mud over the top of the elephant along with the background... Hopefully the masking can get smart enough to color recognize. So in my first case trial, it didn't work for me. 

[TREI 1]

second use, a gorilla on a green background, took FOREVER, and I finally cancelled it.  Macbook pro 2016

[RoofisDoofis]

The ability to brush depth in while using the "visualize depth" function would be greatly improved if you can choose brushdepth via color to match the depth you want.

[travelwitch]

The feature seems to work reasonably well ,but the boost option seems to give no extra effect. Needs the AI selection refining as if there are parts of the image that are not contigiouse the aI does not recognise them and a pain to add using refine - the same image in the mask option selects perfectly! 

[embreeimages]

It would be nice to be able to change the type of brush when refining.  Unless there is a way and I just havent figured it out yet.  

[P1587]

For bird photography I've found it to be hit or miss. Sometimes it's great but then a similar image it makes little impression. 5/10?

[Sylvis27466934b9iz]

It's perfect!! Absoultely love it!

[Mark34100540xghm]

I purposely tested this on a photo that I knew would be challenging for the tool.  I think the tool handled it fairly well, but struggled with selecting what to defocus depending on background and subject.  Again, I purposely tried to throw it some curveballs but I could see myself using it coupled with the right photos.

[super_claret]

Not read all comments so apologies if already mentioned but would be much better if this tool could be used after creating masks.  I didnt have any success painting back areas I wanted in focus using the refine option.

Sorry If I'm missing something!

[Sander33240237qau0]

Issues with Early Access Blurred Lens and Neural Filter Photo Recovery

During editing or downloading, the desktop goes into tilt and the screen goes black after automatically rebooting the desktop.

It seems as if a previous startup operation or download in the program was not properly deleted.

Can you help me

[EliorDanino]

thanks

[Gittlebug]

I used lens blur on an image of a peron standing in her garden.  The lens blur did a great job exept for the top of her hair.  The flowers in the background look like a crown on her head.

[Sean McCormack]

@Gittlebug Have you tried the Refine tools to define the Blur and Focus areas?