Lens Blur (Lightroom)

An AI powered tool in Adobe Lightroom that can analyse the scene in a photo, identify the main subject and create a kind of ‘depth map’ of everything else. With this it can keep the main subject sharp but progressively blur areas of the scene in front of and behind it.

Reviews

Adobe Lightroom review (2025)
ByRod Lawton May 12, 2025August 4, 2026

Adobe Lightroom (2025) verdict: 4.1 stars Adobe Lightroom does something pretty amazing. It makes all your photos available to organize and edit anywhere, on any device. But this does come at a cost. One drawback is that you have to pay for Adobe’s Creative Cloud storage, which is now included in its subscription plans. Another is that this version of Lightroom is slicker and more streamlined than the original Lightroom Classic, but also sacrifices some organizational features.

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Ideas | Tips | Tutorials

The new Lightroom Lens Blur tool explained
ByRod Lawton October 18, 2023August 4, 2026

Adobe’s October 2023 update adds a new Lightroom Lens Blur panel. It’s flagged as Early Access, so it’s still in development, but you can use it right now and it’s actually rather impressive!

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Tutorials

Add zoom blur with a twist
ByRod Lawton August 18, 2017August 4, 2026

Zoom blur is a popular bit tricky little technique where you zoom the lens during the exposure so that you get a kind of radial blur from the centre of the picture. This means using a shutter speed long enough to capture this rapid zoom movement, which usually means you get plenty of regular blur…

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