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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[default0j54qibpting]

This tutorial answers many of the questions and concerns in this thread. Great share - thank you!

[Photomacsa]

I get this error whenever I try this Blur option

[GaryT133]

Overall it is working well, but it does struggle to find areas within a basic object selection that should be blurred.  A person adjusting their hair is a recent example where the gap inside their arm and face was completely missed and had to be added via refine..
I agree that an indicator for which images have been blurred in the filmstrip would be a real help

[jcboy3]

When it finds the edge of a subject, it works very well.  But I could not get good results in areas where it didn't find the subject.  I used refine to paint in the area where it missed the subject using Refine>Focus.  I then tried to erase the area I painted that should be blurred using Refine>Blur>AutoMask, but I could not get a sharp edge on the subject.  This contrasted with the sharp edge I get when Lens Blur actually does find the edge of the subject.  And I could not figure out how to get masking to work with this, because I can get a good sharp mask on a subject with the same technique.

[dkort6]

Can you get a sharp edge without AutoMask selected and Feather set to 0?

[Lisa35280583fhn5]

When i choose for selecting person, the ears will be blurred too, sometimes. That's not okay and looks weird too.

[dkort6]

Yeah, that's happened to me. That's when you twirl open Refine section and paint with the Focus brush to brush over the ears. Then slide the Amount slider to match the desired blur depth.

[royw1234567]

Paint over the unwanted blurred spots with the focus adjustment brush. Make sure to adjust the size of the brush and the feather

[See34914810jcx6]

Love the bokeh option, but please add a brush to add/remove bokeh's.

[StefanKlein]

That brush was there since the very beginning. Why doesn´t everybody find it? It´s easy.

[default0j54qibpting]

I missed it too. Maybe the orientation or the layout needs to be changed?

[Trudi35067576uzv2]

no problems works great absoloutly love it

[alexisarayafotografía]

Me parecio la verdad  una herramienta  muy útil. el unico problema es  que no me deja sincronizar el ajute  con varias fotografías. tengo que hacer el mismo trabajo de desenfoque a  cada una y resulta tedioso. gracias.

[wisterman]

I get error on photoshop 2024: "Unable to load Lens Blur AI depth estimation tool

[stevenm72829168]

Great add, but I'd suggest adding a Paint Brush selection feature to the function.  Clicking and dragging feature is close, but not every selection is going to be a perfect square/rectangle.

[default0j54qibpting]

Does the refine feature work for you or are you looking for something else?

[Rick Spaulding -]

Good news! That feature is already there. Check out step 6 of this Quick Tip tutorial I made and learn all about it.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quick-tip-how-to-use-the-new-lens-blur-...

[Vanessa5FE9]

I did step 6 and it was fabulous for adding more FOCUS and sharpness, however it didn't work the other way around with the BLUR. It just added more focus when I clicked on the FOCUS and BLUR button. Am doing something wrong? Thanks.

See pic.

[Rick Spaulding -]

It doesn't look like you've done it wrong... Hmmm. You are using an earlier version of Lightroom based on your screenshot. Maybe try updating to the latest version and let us know if that helps.

[Vanessa5FE9]

My Ligtrom classic version is 13.1.

[FocalizatStudio]

Hey hey, I just came here to say that the aplying procces of the Lens blur just changed the wole color temperature of the area blurred. It was warm toned and now is fully cold to green ish toned. That's all, just happened at a few photos that were taken in a forest and the lens blur was applyed on trees and sky that were very warm toned.

[FocalizatStudio]

[Noelia Peirano]

It would be good if you implemented the option to "add noise" to the blur to make it look more realistic

[oscar andres]

en mi caso siempre que doy aplicar desenfoque se me bloquea el ordenador y me toca apagrlo forzadamente 

[Gilson27377627vkkx]

Perfeito, usei o desfoque "Círculo, lente circular moderna", alcance focal 25, muito bom.