How To Blur A Background In Lightroom (Realistically!)

[@Frank8899x]

Finally, somebody who knows how to do it correctly. I really appreciate this and you explain it quite well. Thanks Brendan.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You're welcome!

[@roncemine4948]

my Lightrom classic does not have that feature..do i have to update to newer version?or just download plugin ?

[@leniehulse1621]

Great video Brendan! Learnt something new today! Thank you!

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

You are welcome!

[@msjazz79]

Thank you for this video, I have never been able to successfully understand how to do this in Photoshop and try to avoid using that program when possible for anything. I prefer doing things in Lightroom because I find it to be more user friendly. I'm going to give this a try.

[@aftereight8341]

Very well done, Brendon, I highly appreciate your concise style of this walkthrough. Just one more tip: occasionally, in some images this blur might not be enough - in that case, you can always duplicate this mask and it would duplicate the strength of the mask effect. I'm just curious: why you didn't use the Texture slider (together with the Clarity one) for this effect?

[@FINNallyProduction053]

oh man... vary nice, I'f used the Background blur for my CV-Photo end now it look 10 times better, a lot of thanks ;-)

[@thriftednewvlog]

My Lightroom app does not have “background” as an option under the masking icon. Is this for desktop use only?

[@AF-gd6uv]

This was a great video and glad that you posted it. Used PS for yeas now using LR. Helped allot, thanks.

[@testimonycreativefilms]

I don't have the background option in Lightroom classic 2022, how do I do it or find background option?

[@SeaToSkyImages]

Thanks for the tips!

[@SpencerParsons-jf6cz]

When you selected background it all turned red, how do you get that red highlight to go away? Mine stays

[@andrewgavin1490]

I’ve been doing more or less this for sometime, but sometimes I want a much larger convolution for the background. Aka REALLY soft. Have you found a way to do that in LR? Obviously not hard in PS but a lot of the time I don’t feel like firing the big monster up and LR filters are more convenient when you need to cut and paste them across many similar photos.

[@Lindsay.Martin]

Thanks for this video! I was able to use the technique on my iPad right after watching 😊

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Sweet :)

[@rifaat1445]

Which software you used sir

[@brunobenhurg]

Great video!!!! Thank you so much

[@agds91078]

Thank you so much for this! You explaining it step by step has helped me so much and I’m sure many others. Please do more and more editing vids for us new to editing ❤ Sending love and support from Kentucky

[@jeetray11]

Wow! This one quick video forcing me to rethink what lightroom can do. It seems most things that I do in photoshop in layers can be done in lighroom. Can you tell me what type of editing lightroom can't handle that one must use Photoshop? Thank you for the video.

[@toufikib9283]

i'm new to lightroom i don't have the masking icon pls help thnx

[@TiffanyHProductions]

Unfortunately, on the mobile app, it does not have blur background option😢

[@IGNOREDAT0M]

It had earlier idk why they removed it

[@Oxtailgraavy2023]

HOW DO I SAVE THESE SETTINGS AND EXPORT.

[@kobbypolo2999]

I don’t have the mask icon

[@ahojahojish]

Im on M43 system, so this helps immensly! LOL

[@Mahaabharath]

my lightroom doesnt come with this option.. versio n10.0

[@Mike5000]

he's on Lightroom classic

[@thilinaalagiyawanna3680]

Thank you

[@HarveyWallbanger-ho2cq]

We like to make our corrections BEFORE we click the shutter

[@Neyokay_Love]

Thanks so much

[@redrocklead]

You can mess with dehaze (-) texture (-) too.

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Definitely!

[@B4sicKnowledge]

Thank you but I think you could have shortened the video without extra unnecessary details. But anyway, thank you so much.

[@LonzosStudios]

the blur is just not the same as photoshop, it's too mushy just looks more natural in photoshop

[@belovist]

not subject... object.

[@Ldalesports]

I just rather use Canva

[@ahmermirza]

Title: "Realistically" In the video: Fake depth of field. Reporting this right now....

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Nice lol

[@ahmermirza]

Shouldn't expect less for wasting people time.

[@marianput2407]

This is a joke.... Waste of time...

[@jay-by1se]

This was absolutely worthless