How To Blur A Background In Lightroom (Realistically!)

In this Lightroom tutorial, you'll learn how to use several masking tools together to create a realistic selection of backgrounds and apply a blur to it with two different sliders. You'll learn the basics of this technique along with other tips to consider to ensure that your background blur effect in Lightroom looks as realistic as possible. Hope you enjoy :)
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[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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 ;-)

[@AF-gd6uv]

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

[@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!

[@SeaToSkyImages]

Thanks for the tips!

[@jasminew]

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.

[@TiffanyHProductions]

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

[@Lindsay.Martin]

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

[@BrendanWilliamsTutorials]

Sweet :)

[@brunobenhurg]

Great video!!!! Thank you so much

[@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.

[@Neyokay_Love]

Thanks so much

[@thilinaalagiyawanna3680]

Thank you

[@rifaat1445]

Which software you used sir

[@testimonycreativefilms]

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

[@toufikib9283]

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

[@Oxtailgraavy2023]

HOW DO I SAVE THESE SETTINGS AND EXPORT.

[@ahojahojish]

Im on M43 system, so this helps immensly! LOL

[@HarveyWallbanger-ho2cq]

We like to make our corrections BEFORE we click the shutter

[@harshaare]

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

[@Mike5000]

he's on Lightroom classic

[@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.

[@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.

[@jay-by1se]

This was absolutely worthless