Post-processing tools are always evolving, and Lightroom has added some tremendously useful options in the past few years. This great video tutorial takes a look at two of the newer features, Lens Blur and Point Color, and how you can use them for your images.
Coming to you from SharkPixel, this helpful video dives into the newest features in the Lightroom ecosystem: Lens Blur and Point Color. These additions offer users more precise control over their images' depth and color. The Lens Blur feature allows for the adjustment of background blur, bokeh type, and focal range, and though it isn't a replacement for a lens, it's certainly a nice feature to have for certain situations and one that will only improve over time.
Point Color reimagines color editing in Lightroom by enabling precise adjustments to specific colors within an image. This tool allows photographers to sample and modify colors, adjust hue, saturation, and luminance, and even constrain these adjustments to specific areas, allowing much more precise control than the old panel did and a lot more efficient editing workflows as well. Both tools are tremendously useful and worth knowing no matter what you shoot. Give the video above a watch for the full rundown.
I don't understand what's wrong in just using your lens to create the desired blur/bokeh effect. Why now the option to fake it in software? For smartphones they only have computational blur so it makes sense this feature but photographers have lenses that can easily create blur and unique blur depending on the lens without having to waste time in software doing something so easily achievable when taking photographs.
--- "I don't understand what's wrong in just using your lens to create the desired blur/bokeh effect."
Who said anything about it being wrong? Some people just want options to edit their photos as they wish. And, not everyone has super fast lenses, like f1.2 or f0.95.
--- "Why now the option to fake it in software?"
Now? The ability to fake it in software has been around for years and years, although, it took more steps. Now, it just makes it easier.
--- "having to waste time in software"
That's not really up to you, riiiight?