Is there a portrait camera mode in LR for mobile IOS

Hi Wireless,

LR Mobile doesn’t have this feature.

Moreover, the Apple camera app doesn’t create two raw images in its own Portrait mode. It creates a depth map, and stores it as a channel in the image. You can use this channel to create a depth mask in Photoshop to apply a lens blur. What you’ll need is:

1. A Mac running High Sierra

2. A photo captured in the iOS Camera app using its Portrait mode

3. For the photo, you’ll need the .heic file, not the jpg.

You can use Photoshop CC 2018 to open the .heic File, which you’ll want to save as a TIF or PSD format.

Here’s a video describing how to use the depth map to create your own blur effect (you may want to jump ahead in the video to about 5:40, as the beginning just describes using camera raw to prepare the image).

Mike