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!

Posted by: 

[philort]

Playing around with Lens Blur for a few hours and I am very happy with this feature as it helps those of us who are poor and can not afford fast glass. I am having a few problems with the stray hairs,  but this was my failing in not correcting them before using the Blur feature, This is truly a welcome addition to LRC. Thank you.

[timd33575978]

Quick and easy to use to add realistic blurred backgrounds to your photos.

[Lisa32866559k7gy]

Loved the blur and focus, right off the bat I didn't have a problem.  I would like to be able to toggle off and on to see the difference.  But exciteed to continue to play around.  I think it's a great addition.

[simonsaith]

There is an eye icon on the left of the section title bar. You can press and hold to toggle it off temporarily.

[JBedfordPhoto]

I think it's looking pretty good. I was expecting it to look digital, but it does look quite optical. Nice job. Looking forward to seeing the refinements suggested by others here. 

Very happy to see all the work that's going into LR these days. In the near future, I hope this ingenuity can carry over to performance improvements in the Library Module, too.

[wfroyce]

IMHO it could use a Subtract/Add masking feature to correct for the subject not being selected accurately.  You could use the brush tool to tweak the subject selection

[simonsaith]

See Sean's post https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/p-new-ai-powered-lens-blur-early-access...

[Misty21630044375p]

I just played around with the lens blur, loving the way it looks! Only complaint would be to figure out a Solution so that fly away hairs dont look so unnatural .

[Kayla30271140ks29]

Is anyone else having an issue with an errror message?

[o2cui2i]

please give the option to have everything reset to zero next use like with the mask

[simonsaith]

Press the Alt/Option button to show the reset button.

[John32867959gvj5]

Looks great - a progress bar, rather than a spinny circle to give an indication of wait time during analysing would be helpful.

[CS Chua]

The Blur isn't 100% accurate. So used the focus mask. Despite setting the feather to zero the resulting focus on the right hand (the Blur miss) has fuzzy edge, unlike the clean well define edge.
Need to improve the way focus masking with feather = zero works. I did the focus mask with zero feather at zoom-in. 
Attached is the depth map before and after and the before and after photo. 

[Chris Saul]

It's very helpful. I will say that high contrast edges of buildings against sky seem to have some very severe artifacts in my case above a blur amount of about 40

[Derek2185026924lr]

Hi.  I am struggling to get this feature to work in a predictable manner.  At the moment the blur seems to be applied in patches across the image with no correlation to the depth.  For example with a clear image of a person wearing a hat some parts of the hat are blurred but others are left in focus.

[Joshua Bury]

This sounds like a bug. Can you share screenshots showing the effect you are seeing?

[Sono.photos]

lens blur works great, will a future update allow it to be copied / synced to other photos?

[Girish Thakur]

Lens blur is excellant and very satisfactory.  

[chriswesselmanphotography]

Good concise tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowcCT757kw

[Sono.photos]

I tried it on an old jpg and noticed that if I blur the front it blurs my logo as well 

[AutoMatters & More]

Cars in museum BEFORE Lightroom Classic lens blurCars in museum AFTER Lightroom Classic lens blurThis is an awesome addition to Lightroom Classic. I took a picture of four cars crowded onto a museum floor and was able to adjust the focus with the tool to have one of the cars in mid-ground in-focus, another car very slightly behind the plane of the first car out-of-focus, another car even further back out-of-focus, and a partial car in the foreground out-of-focus. Then I selected the subject, inverted the selection, and slightly lowered the exposure level of everything except the feature car. I exported the photo into Topaz Photo AI to get rid of the noise (it was a poorly lit museum). The result was relatively quick and easy to accomplish, although the focus sliders were not intuitive for me to use.

[matthiass45484996]

works well, make LrC faster, please

[ice32873517fx8i]

[Behzod Zaripov]

Good lens blur !

[Marco28223234a83f]

Leider ist ein unerwarteter Fehler aufgetreten