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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Matthias22209714hcsm

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The lens blur function often works nicely, but parts of the subject that is in focus are sometimes not recognised, e.g. parts of a birds nest or antlers of reindeers standing in front of a birch forest in winter.

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Candydash images

Participant

Really pleased with this new feature, I have had a couple of issues with GPU but have sorted. Its working well on multiple images as well as single so time saving when editing a batch. I like it and whilst I appreciate its still not finalised I appreciate the early acess.

coliny5045454

Known Participant

Thanks adobe for finally getting lens blur working in windows it's been a while with apple taking preference... I was having to use Luminar Neo as there works fine with windows.... Glad yours is better... Thank you.

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funny_MeadowB82D

Participant

My use case is sports: indoor volleyball. Nikon Z8 raw. Platform: Lightroom Classic. I've been using the masking feature in Lightroom for a while now, but it requires extensive manual touching up. This lens blur tool does work well, but it requires a nearly perfect sample to start with, and it's very resource intensive, moreso than the denoise feature. Still, I would like to see this lens blur tool develop further to add to the amazing ai-driven editing magic available to us.

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FrancisAlvarezPhotography

Participant

Would love to have this feature added to future iterations as well as be able to copy/paste it as a parameter in the ensuing pop-up window when prompted. That'd be amazing!

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williamb13713626

Participant

I clicked the "apply" box for several photos that had clear human or animal subjects in the forground and it kept telling me "Something went wrong. There was an unexpected error and your request could not be completed." I tried rebooting my computer and opening LR Classic again and that didn't fix the problem.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

Follow the instruction of the pinned reply at the top to get the GPU driver updated.

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alan33@aol.com

Participant

Wow. Really nice effect once I figured out how to work it. I see where you can select AI or manual subject selection but there is no indicator what subject is picked until you slide the filmstrip slider. I'm in Camera RAW 16.01. amazingly, it picked the right subject.

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simonsaith

Adobe Employee

When you select Visualize Depth, the overlays on the image show the following colors:

Warm or Yellow: Covers the area that has a near focal range.
Cool or Blue: Covers the area that has a far focal range.
White: Covers the area that is currently in focus if you're adjusting the Focal Range controls.

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candices66928783

Participant

First play with this new tool is positive! Like all new things it will take some experimenting with but so far i'm impressed with how easy and acurate it seems to be.

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Mackenzie28661338jf0a

Participant

I really like this feature. As I'm typing this, I'm editing wedding photos, however, the ai is so good at detecting the subject from the background, that it has blurred the ground under my bride and not her dress, so it looks like she's floating. Maybe if there were a little bit more of a natural blur to the effect, that would be incredible!

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MattyHealy4eva

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Using it on ACR and I loveeeee it!!!

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