Photos w Lens Blur won't export?

[M38731796ce94]

Hmm, when I apply Lens Blur, I can't locally export my edited photo. I can export (1) before I apply Lens Blur and (2) after I remove Lens Blur. Just not with Lens Blur. This wasn't the case before LR 7.4.1.

I'm using Lightroom 7.4.1 (not Lightroom Classic) on a MacBook Pro on MacOS 14.6.1. Attached is the error message that I get. It was only with trial and error did I isolate the problem to Lens Blurred photos. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[M38731796ce94]

Hmm, when I apply Lens Blur, I can't locally export my edited photo. I can export (1) before I apply Lens Blur and (2) after I remove Lens Blur. Just not with Lens Blur. This wasn't the case before LR 7.4.1.

I'm using Lightroom 7.4.1 (not Lightroom Classic) on a MacBook Pro on MacOS 14.6.1. Attached is the error message that I get. It was only with trial and error did I isolate the problem to Lens Blurred photos. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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[Duplicate post: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/photos-w-lens-blur-won-t-...]

[DTM777]

01 September 2024: I'm experiencing the same problem in LR Classic. Any images with "Lens Blur" modifications cannot be exported. MAC Sonoma 14.6 + LR Classic 13.4.

[gmanfsu01]

I'm having the same issue. Unknown error whenever I try to export from my catalogue, which resides on an external SSD, to my hard drive, running Sequoia 15.3.1. "Updating" to Sequoia was the worst thing I've ever done.  Had to turn off Content Credentials to get any exports to work, can't export anything with lens blur applied, and airdrop only works by having 2 Finder windows open and dragging the files I want to airdrop from one window to the other.

[gmanfsu01]

Also, I get an error message when I try to edit in PS, but it does open in PS. Let's see if I can export from there...

That worked. Edit in PS and the Save for Web from there. Glad I don't often use lens blur!

[M38731796ce94]

Still getting this error 8 months later. Now on MacOS 15.3.2 Sequoia, Lightroom 8.0.

[M38731796ce94]

Just updated to Lightroom 8.2, still same error.

[98530482]

I found that in order to get lens blur to work with export through Lightroom, you would have to export the image into Photoshop, do a minor adjustment (or no adjustment <- not sure this is accurate though), then bring it back into the Lightroom program to apply the lens blur onto the tiff/jpg and export. Let me now if that was helpful or works for you..

[98530482]

minor adjustment - duplicate image and merge together (crtl/cmnd + E), then import back into lightroom. should work with lens blur and export after.

[Maddison_1925]

You're a life saver—I'd use a vast amount of explitives in a positive way to thank you for your help, but I don't want my comment to get removed. This worked! I was running to the deadline on this gallery and was so excited to deliver it and then three of my images would NOT upload. I stumbled across this thread entirely by accident. Behold, it was the very first time I had every used the Blur feature. Now I know, just use photoshop to begin with because that was a pain in my butt. Thanks for the tip!!!

[Maddison_1925]

Just commenting to help any future users:

Yes, lens blur can prevent exporting your files from Lightroom Classic. I could not publish some of my photos to Pixieset, nor could I export them to my computer. Why? No idea, it's an 'unknown error.' Was Adobe support helpful in resolving my issue? No. They just kept giving me generic direction on how to export a file. Ridiculous. Even after I stated, 'hey, I came across a support thread that says lens blur seems to be the problem, how do I export after using this feature?' Wild. 

I followed the solution below, open your files with lens blur in photoshop. Make an edit, then save it back to lightroom (Go to File, then click save. It will save as a tif file, which I believe flattens the edits made in lightroom). Then export these new .tif files as you would normally. Voila, problem solved.