Thousands of pictures are taken every day on our mobile phones. Nevertheless, it may be necessary to retouch them to highlight an object or a person, hide private data or to remove embarrassing details. In this setting, blurring seems to be the best option. But it is not always easy to find the technique to achieve artistic blurring. It is for this reason that today we will see together how to blur the background of a photo on your Honor 8 .
First we will find out solutions to blur the background of an image with your Honor 8 . Then we will find out, how does blurring of a photo work on Honor 8 with an application .
Blur the background of a photo with your Honor 8
This background blur in a photo was only usable a few years ago by owners of SLR cameras. Thanks to technological advances in our devices, this function is now possible on most phones. It allows to highlight the main theme of an image en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now learn that depending on the Android version of your phone, several solutions are available to blur the background of an image on your Honor 8.
Blur the background of a photo of your Honor 8 before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Honor 8 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 Honor 8 are already original a way to blur the background when you take the picture . The advantage of this option 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 Honor 8:
- Open the app » Camera From your smartphone.
- Scroll through the options at the bottom of the screen and choose the function » 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 »Depending on the desired blur effect.
- An adjustment bar is then displayed at the bottom of the screen to adjust blur level that you wish.
- Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.
On a certain number of versions of your Honor 8, the handling is not quite the same to blur the background of a snapshot:
- Open your application Camera .
- Select the feature " Live focus "Or commonly called" Live Focus ».
- Set the degree of background blur by dragging the cursor.
Blur the background of a photo of your Honor 8 in post-production
It sometimes happens that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the adjustments 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 a number of Android versions, this solution is only possible if your photo was taken with “Portrait mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you took the image with one of these modes, we present here the procedure to perform to blur the background of your shot on Honor 8 in post-production via the phone settings:
- See you in the Gallery from your phone.
- Open image 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, click " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.
Depending on the version of your Android and in the event that you took the image without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Honor 8 by applying this method:
- Open the application Gallery from your smartphone.
- Choose image that you want to touch up.
- Click on the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Choose the kind of blur .
- You must manually define the areas to blur .
- Set the intensity of the blur with the focus adjustment bar.
- Save the image with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo of your Honor 8 with an application
If the operations we have just seen cannot be performed, you still have one technique left. You will then have to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Honor 8. The advantage of this method is that it allows 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 Honor 8, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one function, yet therefore it does 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 8.
- Allow the app to access your Gallery .
- Select 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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