Thousands of photos are captured every day on our smartphones. That said, it sometimes happens that it is necessary to modify them to highlight an object or a person, to hide confidential data or to remove embarrassing details. To do this, blurring seems to be the best solution. But it is not a long calm river to find the technique to succeed in artistic blurring. It is for this reason that today we are going to discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your ASUS ROG Phone 5 .

To start we will find out the solutions to blur the background of an image with your ASUS ROG Phone 5 . Then we will find out, how does blurring a photo work on ASUS ROG Phone 5 using an app .

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Blur the background of a photo with your ASUS ROG Phone 5

This background blur on a photo was until a few years ago only usable by owners of SLR cameras. Thanks to the technological progress of our smartphones, this function is now possible on most mobile phones. It gives the possibility of highlight the main theme of a photo en blurring artistically background details. We will now discover that depending on the Android version of your phone, there are several solutions for blurring the background of an image on your ASUS ROG Phone 5.

Blur the background of an image of your ASUS ROG Phone 5 before the photo is taken

Blurring the background of a photo on your ASUS ROG Phone 5 can be useful to highlight the main subjects in the foreground. In order to do this, several techniques exist. Some Android versions of your ASUS ROG Phone 5 thus offer a way to blur the background the moment you capture the image . The advantage of this technique is that it is Fast . In reality, you won't need to do any post-production manipulations, nor need to download an application. So, how to blur the background of a photo on your ASUS ROG Phone 5:

  • 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 appears automatically. In the event that this is not what happens, tap the effects icon on the right of the screen.
  • Select the effect » Flou  "" Whirlwind  " or " Zoom  »According to the desired blur effect.
  • An adjustment bar is then displayed at the bottom of the screen to adjust blur level that you want.
  • Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.

On a number of versions of your ASUS ROG Phone 5, the procedure is not quite the same to blur the background of an image:

  • Open your application Camera .
  • Select the feature " 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 ASUS ROG Phone 5 in post-production

It is possible at times that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not tops. In this situation, you can always blur the background of your photo even after taking it .

On a number of Android versions, this solution is only possible if your photo was taken with "Portrait Mode" or "Live Focus" mode. In the event that you took the image with one of these modes, here is the procedure to perform to blur the background of your shot on ASUS ROG Phone 5 in post-production using the phone settings:

  • Go to the Gallery from your phone.
  • Open image that you want to blur.
  • Click on " Change background effect  "Or "Adjust background blur "
  • Select the effect that you want to add to the background.
  • Adjust the focus slider background to adjust the amount of blur you want.
  • To save the edited photo, press " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.

Depending on the version of your Android and if you ever took the image without functionality , you can also blur the background on your ASUS ROG Phone 5 by following this procedure:

  • Open the application Gallery from your smartphone.
  • Choose image that you want to touch up.
  • Click on the option » Edit  "Then" Mosaic "
  • Select the kind of blur .
  • You should manually select the areas to blur .
  • Set the intensity of the blur thanks to the focus adjustment bar.
  • Save the image with the changes.

Blur the background of a photo of your ASUS ROG Phone 5 using an application

In the event that the manipulations we have just shown you cannot be carried out, you still have one technique left. You will then have to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your ASUS ROG Phone 5. The advantage of this procedure is that it will allow you to 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 ASUS ROG Phone 5, the best application is " Auto blur background ". As its name suggests, it has only one function, but suddenly 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 your ASUS ROG Phone 5.
  • Allow the app to access your Gallery .
  • Select the image you want to blur.
  • Click on the option » Edit "
  • Select the area to blur or the background, the kind of blur among the many filters and effects. Then adjust its intensity .
  • Finally click on » Save  To save it in your Gallery.

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