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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[Bentley B]

Can custom presets be added? I have noticed it does stall and goes unresponsive for 10 -20 seconds between brush strokes for sharpening.

[Mark34132263g8pw]

Is there a way of painting on the on the auto mask? This would be fantastic if incorporpated in the masking section. 

[default0j06sfko57uq]

Salut,

un seul mot à propos du "Flou" : génial

Hello,

only one word about "lens blur" : great !

[meadows.enk]

Love this feature. Please continue developing it and improving the AI powering it. Excited to see a full release

[thaysa42080494]

Recurso marailhoso, uma pena não ser agil e travar algumas vezes.

[Timothy31512407mzw9]

I encounted an out of memory error on the graphics processor in Photoshop, to which the GPU accelaration was disablled.

[lauriep83813468]

nice job with lens blur in background.

[CamilleRobinson1980]

It would be great to be able to darken or lighten a blurred background.

[sueperse]

I tried out lens blur and found it strange.  It blurred the hair on the subject.  In the background it blurred parts of things, like the corner of a quilt., part of a cushion, some of the wood paneling in the baclground but not all, and part of an electrical cord.  I hope you can fine tune this because I was excited when I saw it in LR.  I have a 2015 Mac, so that may be the problem?

S. Perse

[johnn48694981]

It's just guessing what should be blurred. You can "erase" the blurr effect in areas that should not be blurred. 

[sueperse]

Hi,

I wanted the whole background blurred but it only blurred bits here and there. I’m wondering if my 2015 iMac is too old. It is not able to update past Monterey 12.7.2.

Sue Perse

[PaulTerry]

Pressing the "focus" button will allow you to selectively remove the blur from the areas where you want it in focus. Conversely, using the "Blur" button will allow you to selectively remove the focus from areas where you want it blurred

[sarat89501253]

This seemed great at first but then I started noticing a jagged sharp edge around my subjects hair separating them from the blurred background. Maybe some sort of glitch?

[David17271264yyjo]

Not sure if this is where I supply feedback on the Beta Blur but w

anted to know if a small swirl could be added to the Bokeh simliar to lenses like Helios 40 85mm f 1.5? 

[Mike Donnel]

I think the blur tool is working great but i am no pro

[samkatz88]

I'm not finding this blur tool useful because the "visualization" just doesn't "visualize" very well for  me.  I can't make sense of the veritable rainbow of shades on my screen and it's hard to tell what's bluring, what's not with any precision.   While the blurry parts are by definition variable in blurriness, the subject which I need to stay tack sharp is not apparent....I wind up painting like crazy over the subject. Is there a better way to depict/preview the blurriness vs remaining sharpness? Thanks

[Robert Hewitt Images]

Nice idea - from the videos I have seen.  But much too slow for me ... perhas my set up is impactign but I am not getting it to work at all

[JustinPhil]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but adding an eye dropper feature to paint in a specific blur amount with the "Vizualize Depth" enabled would really help in adjusting fine features within the mask.

[JoAnn_VA&ME]

Hello,

I really like this feature and would very much like to use it with more control such as in Photoshop with a selection tool implemented to add more accuracy. Great addition. Thank you.

[vvk88]

I think this will be wonderful when perfected.  Right now it takes much too long on my computer, i.e. several minutes before it finishes processing.  I have 32 GB RAM and a processor that is about four years old, so I don't think it should be this slow.

[george36157732tgtv]

after lens bur applied I encounter huge slow down of my entire work in Lighroom, please fix it urgentky as I can't use the lens blur , Thanks a lot !

[adi30448118ta4a]

good

[J.Schlosser]

With regular mistakes of depth analysis, having the same tools as for masking (object, luminosity, person, etc.) would be really helpful for refining the depth mask. At minimum the object selection tool would be available.  

[jbwalker photography]

I applaud Adobe for adding this type opf edit.  I'll try it on some other images.  The one image I selected from my inventory didn't seem to make much of a change as I worked through the Lens Blur sliders and various options.  But I think I saw enough it promises to have a positive impact.  Jim

[Naline26498939d37u]

Works fairly well. Definitely needs a tool to unblur certain areas sincee it has a little trouble on close up white areas instead of focusing primarily on backgrounds.