Thousands of pictures are taken every day on our smartphones. However, it may be necessary to improve them to highlight an object or a subject, to erase confidential data or to remove embarrassing details. For this, blurring seems to be the right solution. But it is not always easy to find the technique to achieve artistic blurring. This is the reason why in this article we will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3L .
First of all we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Alcatel 3L . Then we will see, how to blur a photo on Alcatel 3L with an application .
Blur the background of a photo with your Alcatel 3L
This background blur in a photo was not so long ago reserved for SLR cameras. Thanks to technological advances in our phones, this functionality is now possible on most smartphones. It offers the possibility of highlight the main theme of an image en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now find out that depending on the Android version of your smartphone, several solutions are available to you to blur the background of an image on your Alcatel 3L.
Blur the background of an image of your Alcatel 3L before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3L can be useful to bring out the main subjects in the foreground. To do this, several techniques are available to you. Some Android versions of your Alcatel 3L thus offer by default a way to blur the background the moment you take the shot . The advantage of this solution is that it is Fast . Indeed, you will neither need to run post-production operations, nor need to download an application. So, what is the technique to blur the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3L:
- Open the app » Camera From your phone.
- Scroll down the options at the bottom of the screen and choose the feature » Portrait mode "
- The list of effects is displayed automatically. If that doesn't work, click on the effects icon on the right side of the screen.
- Choose the effect » Flou "" Whirlwind " or " Zoom »According to the desired blur effect.
- An adjustment bar appears after that at the bottom of the screen to set the blur level that you want.
- Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.
On some versions of your Alcatel 3L, the handling is slightly different to blur the background of an image:
- Open your application Camera .
- Click on the " Live focus "Or commonly called" Live Focus ».
- Adjust the degree of background blur by dragging the cursor.
Blur the background of an image of your Alcatel 3L in post-production
It may happen at times that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not top. In this case, you can always blur the background of your photo even after taking it .
On some Android versions, this manipulation is only possible in the event that your photo was taken with “Portrait mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you took the shot with one of these modes, here is the procedure to perform to blur the background of your image on Alcatel 3L in post-production using the smartphone settings:
- Go to the Gallery from your smartphone.
- Open the snapshot that you are trying to blur.
- Click on " Change background effect "Or "Adjust background blur "
- Choose the effect that you want to add to the background.
- Adjust the focus slider of the background to be able to adjust the amount of blur you want.
- To save the edited photo, click " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.
Depending on the version of your Android and in the event that you took the snapshot without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Alcatel 3L by applying this solution:
- Open the application Gallery from your phone.
- Choose image that you want to change.
- Click on the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Choose the type of blur .
- You must manually define the areas to blur .
- Set the intensity of the blur with the focus adjustment bar.
- Save the snapshot with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo of your Alcatel 3L with an application
In the event that the operations we have just discovered cannot be done, you still have one technique left. You will therefore need to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3L. The advantage of this solution is that it allows retouch any image on your smartphone.
There are many applications, but for a rendering almost as qualitative as with a reflex camera, and not having to change the resolution of the photos on your Alcatel 3L, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one feature, but because of that it does it very well. It also obtains one of the best marks (4, 7/5).
To use it:
- Download application on the Google Play Store of your Alcatel 3L.
- Allow the app to access your Gallery .
- Click on the image you want to blur.
- Click on the option » Edit "
- Choose the area to blur or the background, the type of blur among the many filters and effects. Then set its intensity .
- To finish click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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