Amateur Photographer

Lightroom’s Lens Blur:does it work?

Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of photo-editing software and has, for the most part, delivered some unbelievably useful features that make some editing tasks quicker and easier than ever before. Photoshop may be leading the charge with its contentious Generative Fill Feature and other AI-powered tools, but Lightroom has also seen its fair share of impressive AI features including the more recent Lens Blur control.

Lens Blur, as the name suggests, applies lens blur to images to create realistic and aesthetically pleasing bokeh. This, in essence, allows you to change the point of focus in images with a large depth-of-field and to defocus backgrounds to remove clutter and make the subject more prominent. This is achieved using AI-powered

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