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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[Julienne Math36201648ypkh]

I find that it doesn't work great with dogs (the furr becomes strange)

[jerryn67354783]

I used lens blur and when I attempted to undo, Lightroom blurred the entire photo and locked up completely. When  restarted, I was able to use lens blur with no problem.

[jerryn67354783]

I also just updated Lightroom and Lens blur is working well and seems to work very fast now as oppossed to when I first tried it. I really like but I need to learn how to fine tune in some instances.

[pcota]

I USE M2 16MB macbook air and lens blur take for ever. Slows down lightroom. Almost hard to use.

[Robert Hewitt Images]

I have already commented on the slowness.  But the few images I have tried it seem to retrun an error message, and then I find the system does not work so have to close down and reload.  So whilst I like teh idea, it is not usable for me yet ....

[sb2314]

I've noticed that this feature is a processor, RAM, and Graphics Card hog.
I have an I9 processor with 32 GB of RAM and a 10 GB Nvidia graphics card
and it still sometimes hesitates. It works great, but I can tell it's using
all my PC's resources, and sometimes just quits working. This is more
prominent if I have been using the PC for photo editing for a few hours.
Sometimes, it's better to reboot and start over.

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[MadMaxIndiana]

Had a great experience with Lens Blur today, AI was spot on, the interface for adjusting was easy to use and understand, great addition!

 

[johnh63880408]

I have a fully up to date Adobe Package "Supposedly" Lens blur failed to operate at all and to cap it all, to write this took three levels of verification!  Not impressed at all I'm afraid.

[Tman1307]

Superb feature! No slow-downs or hesitations. Looking forward to testing sports, wildlife and low light pics.

[michellenes715570]

WOW! I'm impressed! It's unbelieveable! I used it and couldn't believe that the final product looks fantastic!

[michellenes715570]

Great feature! It's so realistic! I just needed a little bit of blur. It enhanced my image. Thanks Adobe.

[zenith_knowledge60615]

Tried it out on several images and love teh effect I can generate with it. I'm primarely a wildlife photogapher and like how I can adjust the depth of blur in my backgrounds. So far it has been working great without any issues I have noticed.

[emcee_007]

I have been waiting for a feature like this, love it.  I don't know if it's fully usable for me yet because of Lightroom's less-than-ideal ability to detect a subject like a baseball player that may be holding a bat or a catcher with a face mask.  Working on a photo now where the catcher's face mask cage is out of focus due to the lens blur but then the rest of the mask is in focus.  Not sure how to address this when Lightroom's subject detection wouldn't get it right either.  Would appreciate any tips.

Thank you!

[emcee_007]

Ok, right after I posted this comment I found the ability to edit the mask with a brush within the Lens Blur tool (expand the "Refine" tab at the bottom of the palette).  Will be great when "AI" is used to detect things like sports gear, etc. and can recognize it's part of the subject.

[sb2314]

Use the Focus brush to paint over the blurred parts of the picture. Works
unbelievably well.

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[chrisd21395404]

It would be helpful to be able to refine the blur by selecting objects like you can with masks. 

[simonb30131051]

I love this feature. Please give us the option of including some portion of the image that is in focus and blur that, too. This could be done by adding masking as a way to modify the subject that is left in focus.

[Bob Trlin]

Using blur a lot but finding occasional issues.  With this backlit kangaroo, in places, the backlit fur has been blurred.  I could correct it only partially with the focal range slider.

 

[verku]

It woud be good to have option to refine the subject mask. For my example, all worked well, exept the subjet had doog on the leash and just the area between the leash and leg was not rendered right...

[johnn48694981]

You can adjust the mask

[Adeine23829732tidt]

I'll give it a go today! Thank you for answering. I went to start the blur
again but I still get an error on the screen.

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[philipv12150385]

Is there a correction brush to correct the automatic subject detection? Its a great tool, but in many cases i needed to add parts of my subjects edge (typically things like small shapes on the head - flowers on a hat etc.) but coud not do so.

[PaulTerry]

Click on Blur to blur any additional areas and click on Focus to clear any additional areas

[philipv12150385]

Found it. Thank you! That's great! Many users seem not to know about it yet..

[Adeine23829732tidt]

I could not get it to work at all...comes up with an error?