LrC 13.3 is out

[Only RF]

Not only new additions in the masking and lens blur areas the Neural Engine bug has been fixed. On my 2020 MacBook Air M1, 16GB RAM Denoise AI dropped from 115 seconds to 25 seconds.

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[Archibald]

Thanks for the info - updating now. If the Enhance has been speeded up, that will be good.

 

[Archibald]

Trying out some of the features. LrC 13.3.

Lens Blur: In Develop, went to Lens Blur and clicked on Apply. The whole image becomes blurred. Hmm, what is this useful for?

Blur Background: In Library, went to Saved Preset > Adaptive: Blur background. The whole image again becomes blurred. Not useful. What am I missing?

Enhance: Worked as before, took 70 seconds.

 

[Only RF]

I’m not sure. My Intel Mac made little difference but my M1 was significant. What are you Performance settings in LrC preferences?

 

[Archibald]

Auto use of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB, Cache 5 GB...

 

[Only RF]

I just tried it on my MacBook Air again and 25 seconds with an R6II file. I had it with me for 2 months in Portugal and it was like molasses. Anytime there was an LrC or OS update I tried it and I always for 115 seconds. I'm not a computer expert. Maybe ask at the Lightroom Queen forums?

 

[Archibald]

It's OK - I think the software should figure out the optimization. I can wait the extra minute if needed.

I explored the blur functions a bit more. It seems the AI tries to figure out distances in the image, and you can set distance ranges to be in focus or out of focus. You can also let it auto-select the subject, but that made a mess of the pic I was working on. The range selection sort of works, but I am getting weird effects in some of the OOF shapes. They bizarrely go in and out of blur. Those things can be fixed with more fiddling... but the fan in my box is blowing like crazy while I'm doing these things, and it's getting warm in the room.

It's easier to blur areas the old way, by selecting and using sliders.

The way things are going with AI, I might have to get a computer with a water cooler.

 

[Only RF]

Lol

 

[MrSparks999]

This guy explains it quite well.
https://youtu.be/aucolYzygos

 

[Jake Shoots Birds]

Trying out some of the features. LrC 13.3.

Lens Blur: In Develop, went to Lens Blur and clicked on Apply. The whole image becomes blurred. Hmm, what is this useful for?

Blur Background: In Library, went to Saved Preset > Adaptive: Blur background. The whole image again becomes blurred. Not useful. What am I missing?

Enhance: Worked as before, took 70 seconds.

Would need to see your image to judge. Been using Lens Blur since it came in and I've never had it do an entire image. From your comments I'm assuming it can't seem to find a subject to base the blur on.