Thousands of snapshots are captured every day on our smartphones. However, it may be necessary to retouch them to highlight an object or a subject, to hide private data or to remove annoying details. For this, blurring seems to be the best option. But it is not a long calm river to find the solution to succeed an 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 3X .
First we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Alcatel 3X . Then we will see, how does the blurring of a photo work on Alcatel 3X with an application .
Blur the background of a photo using your Alcatel 3X
This background blur in a photo was only usable a few years ago by owners of SLR cameras. With the technological progress of our devices, this function is now possible on most smartphones. It allows to highlight the main subject of a photo en blurring artistically details of the background. We will now see that depending on the Android version of your phone, several alternatives exist to blur the background of an image on your Alcatel 3X.
Blur the background of a photo of your Alcatel 3X before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3X can be useful to highlight the main subjects in the foreground. In order to do this, several ways are available to you. Some Android versions of your Alcatel 3X thus offer by default a way to blur the background when you capture the photo . The usefulness of this option is that it is Fast . In reality, you won't need to run any post-production operations or download an app. In this situation, how to blur the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3X:
- Open the app » Camera From your smartphone.
- Scroll through the features at the bottom of the screen and select the function » Portrait mode "
- The list of effects is displayed automatically. In the event that this is not the case, tap the effects icon on the right 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 change blur level that you wish.
- Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.
On a number of versions of your Alcatel 3X, the process is slightly different to blur the background of a snapshot:
- 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 a shot of your Alcatel 3X in post-production
There may be times that you are not satisfied with the result obtained or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not correct. If so, you can always blur the background of your photo even after taking it .
On a certain number of Android versions, this technique is only possible if your photo was taken with “Portrait mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you've ever taken the picture in one of these modes, find out how to blur the background of your shot on Alcatel 3X in post-production via the phone settings:
- See you in the Gallery from your phone.
- Open the photo that you want 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 in order to correct the desired blur intensity.
- To save the edited photo, press " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.
Depending on the version of your Android and in the event that you took the photo without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Alcatel 3X by following this procedure:
- Open the application Gallery from your smartphone.
- Select image that you want to change.
- Click on the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Choose the kind of blur .
- You should manually select the areas to blur .
- Set the intensity of the blur using the focus adjustment bar.
- Save the photo with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo of your Alcatel 3X with an application
In the event that the operations we have just shown you cannot be carried out, you still have a solution. You will then need to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Alcatel 3X. The advantage of this procedure is that it will allow retouch any image on your phone.
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 3X, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it has only one function, but because of this 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 3X.
- 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 kind of blur among the many filters and effects. Then adjust its intensity .
- To finish click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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