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: 

[Taylor372833626dmf]

Love the feature! One problem I'm having is that I need a RESET button (or functioning UNDO). My touchscreen appears to have picked up some incorrect manual brushed edits to the focus, and the tool created several lines that I don't want (see attached). Ctrl+Z isn't doing anything and I need to restore the autodetected depths to start again. Thanks

[Ronnie Paloma]

I hope that lens blur can be synced to all photos

[Muhammad372898403tat]

Saya juga setuju! Pada pandangan pertama - setelah beberapa gambar yang dikembangkan - saya sangat terkejut. Dan ya, indikator akan sangat membantu. 

[stevehphoto]

The Refine brushers are difficult to see, especially when adding blur back to small areas.

[ruudv47029032]

if you apply the lens blur heavily, the size of the jpeg becomes much smaller after exporting. 851 Kb vs 1,5 Mb.

  

[gary_sc]

@ruudv47029032 This is to be expected. Take a photo of a clear sky and compare that to a photo just of grass. The latter will be much larger than the former. Detail always gives a larger-stored image size.

[shutterbug9113]

While tias looks like a great development, I am havng trouble figuring out what all the sliders and other options do and work.  I push sliders all the way to the left and right and see no difference.  Adobe needs to tell us how these features work.

[psmithQS]

It would be nice to be able to Brush in or "add Object" to select aditional elements to keep from blurring. The blur feature decided that the top of a guitar neck where the tuners are was out of the focal plane even though the neck was parallel to the camera. Adjusting the focal plane only made the main subject less sharp and never brought the top of the neck into focus.

[PaulTerry]

If you click the triangle next to "refine, then you get a Focus and a Blur button. You can use the Focus to manually un-blur the neck of the guitar

[Ars Clicandi]

It doens't work on my computer:

[chrisa75636136]

Did a quick test on my Enduro images, nice background blur but it can´t handle fast running tires, see image. 

[dstrumpell]

Would be fantastic if Lightroom could use the Lidar-created depth map from iPhones to determine focus range.

[franzr44235004]

Tolle Tool! Die Bilder können perfekt verfeinert werden. Die erzeugte Tiefe giebt dem Hauptmotiv noch mehr Präsenz. Danke, weiter so.

[SAP58]

I really like the blur feature and I intend to use it more.

[maxm54291537]

Why don't you allow the foreground and background areas to be painted with a brush of the same colors as when you click on “view depth”? I'm all for early access, but in this case... you haven't bothered to develop a tool that only half works...

[grants97192903]

Is just me thinking, why not just add a lens blur with a couple of bokeh options into the masking tools. The selection process in the masking tool blitzes the dicking around with AI wich is great when it works but often need a quicker and more accurate way of refinement.

I find the object/s that commonly need focus separation also need levels and colour grading so why not ' select it ONCE'.

I'm no expert on how these tools are engineered into the suite but maybe it will avoid some to the complaints regarding Ram and GPU hogging the speed out of our fast computers. 

[CB.Photography]

Very good tool to use, quick at detecting the image and changing the intensity of the blur. 

Adding a brush tool like masking would help to blur certain parts of the image. 

[martin-s]

I like the results very much and haven't noticed any blips. It's also great to enhance existing blur.

It would be even more useful if the created depth map would allow us to apply other adjustments (exposure, colour etc.) selectively to fore-, middle-, or back-ground.

Perhaps it could be rolled into the masking panel alongside subject, sky etc.

[Alina31478056lmbh]

works almost great but I think there is some improvement to be made in masking objects, also would be good to have options like radial or liner blur just like in the effects panel 

[ArkRepro]

When re-opening a Camera Raw adjustment applied to a smart object, the lens blur mask is reset to it's initial state, not that which was last applied.

[Jonathan Reed374033023q1m]

A simple feedback since I'm not yet a pro in lightroom. I like it and it helped me a lot when I needed to add more blur. please don't remove it 😄

[defaultq5qzbsywouyi]

Add me to the list of crash victims due to the Blur Tool. I've tried just about every tweak and configuration, and it will actually work for a day or two and then, out of nowhere, completely freeze my system—no warnings, no errors, just frozen just like the good old days of Windows 95.   

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[Eric374285918evd]

I love it!! It works great for me and I am able to sucessfully fix focus/blurred spots

[Emilie31752406g9j9]

Great feature. Is it possible to add to multiple photoes or only one at the time? I can't find it in the sync option.

[Steven37452502gzrb]

I was just wishing I had a bokeh option on Lightroom Classic, and then I found the Lens Blur function. I LOVE IT! It worked perfectly on my Dell G7.  Keep up the great R&D.