Thousands of pictures are taken every day on our phones. However, it sometimes happens that it is 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 best solution. 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 you will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Honor 5C .

First of all we will find out solutions to blur the background of an image with your Honor 5C . Then we will find out, how to blur a photo on Honor 5C using an application .

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Blur the background of a photo with your Honor 5C

This background blur in a photo was only usable a few years ago by owners of SLR cameras. Thanks to the technical progress of our devices, this functionality is now possible on most cell phones. It gives the possibility of highlight the main theme of a photo en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now discover that depending on the Android version of your mobile phone, several procedures exist to blur the background of an image on your Honor 5C.

Blur the background of a snapshot of your Honor 5C before the photo is taken

Blurring the background of a photo on your Honor 5C can be interesting for highlighting the main subjects in the foreground. There are several ways to do this. Some Android versions of your Honor 5C thus offer basic a way to blur the background the moment you take the picture . The usefulness of this option is that it is Fast . In fact, you will not need to perform post-production operations, nor need to download an application. So, how to blur the background of a photo on your Honor 5C:

  • Open the app » Camera  From your phone.
  • Scroll through the features at the bottom of the screen and choose the function » Portrait mode "
  • The list of effects is displayed automatically. If it doesn't work, click on the effects icon on the right side of the screen.
  • Select the effect » Flou  "" Whirlwind  " or " Zoom  »According to the desired blur effect.
  • An adjustment bar then appears at the bottom of the screen to change the blur level that you want.
  • Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.

On some versions of your Honor 5C, the procedure is not quite the same to blur the background of a photo:

  • Open your application Camera .
  • Choose the feature " Live focus   "Or commonly called" Live Focus ».
  • Adjust the degree of background blur by dragging the cursor.

Blur the background of a photo of your Honor 5C 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 correct. In this situation, you will still be able to blur the background of your photo even after taking it .

On some Android versions, this solution is only possible if your photo was taken with “Portrait mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you took the photo with one of these modes, here is the procedure to blur the background of your photo on Honor 5C in post-production via the settings of the mobile phone:

  • Go to the Gallery from your mobile phone.
  • Open the photo that you want to blur.
  • Press on " Change background effect  "Or "Adjust background blur "
  • Select the effect that you want to add to the background.
  • Adjust the focus slider of the background to be able to correct the desired blur intensity.
  • To save the edited photo, click " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.

Depending on the version of your Android and if you ever took the photo without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Honor 5C by following this procedure:

  • Open the application Gallery from your phone.
  • Select image that you want to touch up.
  • Press the option » Edit  "Then" Mosaic "
  • Select the kind of blur .
  • You must manually select the areas to blur .
  • Set the intensity of the blur with the focus adjustment bar.
  • Save the photo with the changes.

Blur the background of a photo of your Honor 5C with an application

If the operations we have just discovered cannot be performed, you still have a solution. You will then have to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Honor 5C. The advantage of this procedure is that it allows retouch any image on your mobile 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 Honor 5C, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one feature, but as a result 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 Honor 5C.
  • Allow the app to access your Gallery .
  • Choose 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 set its intensity .
  • To finish click on » Save  To save it in your Gallery.

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