Thousands of photos are taken on our phones every day. However, it may be necessary to retouch them to enhance an object or a person, to hide private data or to remove annoying details. For this, blurring seems to be the best solution. But finding the technique to achieve artistic blurring is not a long easy process. It is for this reason that today we will see together how to blur the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5 .
First we will find out solutions to blur the background of an image with your Huawei Nova 5 . Then we will find out, how to blur a photo on Huawei Nova 5 with an application .
Blur the background of a photo using your Huawei Nova 5
This background blur on a photo was still reserved for SLR cameras a few years ago. Thanks to the technological advancements of our smartphones, this functionality is now possible on most smartphones. It offers the possibility of highlight the main theme of a photo en artistically blurring the details of the background. We will now see that depending on the Android version of your mobile phone, several alternatives are available to you to blur the background of an image on your Huawei Nova 5.
Blur the background of a photo of your Huawei Nova 5 before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5 can be useful to highlight the main subjects in the foreground. For this, several techniques exist. Some Android versions of your Huawei Nova 5 already have a basic a way to blur the background the moment you take the picture . The advantage of this technique is that it is Fast . Indeed, you will not need to do any post-production operations, nor need to download an application. So, how to blur the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5:
- Open the app » Camera From your smartphone.
- Scroll through the features at the bottom of the screen and select the feature » Portrait mode "
- The list of effects is displayed automatically. In the event that that doesn't work, tap 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 is then displayed at the bottom of the screen to change the blur level that you wish.
- Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.
On a number of versions of your Huawei Nova 5, the handling is slightly different 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 Huawei Nova 5 in post-production
It may sometimes be that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not great. In this situation, you may still blur the background of your photo even after taking it .
On a certain number of Android versions, this manipulation 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, find out how to blur the background of your photo on Huawei Nova 5 in post-production using the mobile phone settings:
- See you in the Gallery from your mobile 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 to be able 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 if you ever took the image without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Huawei Nova 5 by following this method:
- 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 define the areas to blur .
- Set the intensity of the blur using the focus adjustment bar.
- Save the image with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo of your Huawei Nova 5 with an application
If the operations we have just discovered cannot be done, you still have a technique. You will therefore need to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5. The advantage of this method is that it will allow you to 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 Huawei Nova 5, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one feature, however as a result 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 Huawei Nova 5.
- Allow the app to access your Gallery .
- Choose 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 .
- Finally click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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