Thousands of photos are captured on our phones every day. Nevertheless, it may be necessary to modify them to highlight an object or a subject, to hide confidential data or to remove embarrassing details. To do this, blurring seems to be the right solution. But it is not a long calm river to find the solution to succeed an artistic blurring. It is for this reason that today you will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5i .

To start we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Huawei Nova 5i . Then we'll see, how does the blurring of a photo work on Huawei Nova 5i thanks to an application .

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Blur the background of a photo with your Huawei Nova 5i

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 smartphones, this function is now possible on the majority of mobile phones. It will give the possibility of highlight the main theme of an image en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now find out that depending on the Android version of your smartphone, several procedures are available to you to blur the background of an image on your Huawei Nova 5i.

Blur the background of a photo of your Huawei Nova 5i before the photo is taken

Blurring the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5i can be useful for emphasizing the main subjects in the foreground. In order to do this, several methods are available to you. Some Android versions of your Huawei Nova 5i thus have by default a way to blur the background the moment you capture the image . The utility of this technique is that it is Fast . Indeed, you will neither need to do post-production operations, nor need to download an application. In this case, how to blur the background of a photo on your Huawei Nova 5i:

  • Open the app » Camera  From your phone.
  • Scroll through the options at the bottom of the screen and choose the function » Portrait mode "
  • The list of effects appears automatically. If 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 set the blur level that you wish.
  • Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.

On several versions of your Huawei Nova 5i, the handling is slightly different to blur the background of an image:

  • 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 an image of your Huawei Nova 5i 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 case, you can still blur the background of your photo even after capturing it .

On several Android versions, this solution is only possible if your photo was taken with “Portrait mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you have ever captured the image with one of these modes, find out how to blur the background of your shot on Huawei Nova 5i in post-production via the smartphone settings:

  • See you in the Gallery from your smartphone.
  • 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 your Android version and if you ever captured the image without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Huawei Nova 5i by following this method:

  • Open the application Gallery from your phone.
  • Select image that you want to change.
  • Click on the option » Edit  "Then" Mosaic "
  • Select the kind of blur .
  • You must 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 Huawei Nova 5i with an application

In the event that the operations we have just seen 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 Huawei Nova 5i. The advantage of this method is that it offers the possibility of retouch any image on your smartphone.

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 5i, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it has only one function, however 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 Huawei Nova 5i.
  • 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 adjust its intensity .
  • To finish click on » Save  To save it in your Gallery.

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