Thousands of photos are captured every day on our smartphones. However, it sometimes happens that it is required to retouch them to highlight an object or a person, to erase confidential data or to remove embarrassing details. For this, blurring seems to be the right solution. But it is not a long calm river to find the technique to succeed in artistic blurring. This is the reason why in this article we will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A04s .

First we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Samsung Galaxy A04s . Then we will see, how to blur a photo on Samsung Galaxy A04s with an application .

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Blur the background of a photo with your Samsung Galaxy A04s

This background blur on a photo was until some time ago reserved for reflex cameras. Thanks to the technological progress of our smartphones, this functionality is now possible on the vast majority of mobile phones. It allows to highlight the main theme of a photo en blurring artistically background details. We will now see that depending on the Android version of your mobile phone, several procedures can be applied to blur the background of an image on your Samsung Galaxy A04s.

Blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A04s before the photo is taken

Blurring the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A04s can be useful to bring out the main subjects in the foreground. For this, several methods are available to you. Some Android versions of your Samsung Galaxy A04s already have this basic a way to blur the background when you capture the snapshot . The utility of this technique is that it is Fast . Indeed, you will neither need to perform post-production manipulations, nor need to download an application. So how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A04s:

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

On several versions of your Samsung Galaxy A04s, the handling is slightly different to blur the background of an image:

  • 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 shot of your Samsung Galaxy A04s in post-production

It sometimes happens that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you had made are not good. If so, you can still blur the background of your photo even after capturing it .

On several Android versions, this manipulation is only possible if your photo was taken with “Portrait Mode” or “Live focus” mode. If you ever captured the snapshot with one of these modes, here is the procedure to perform to blur the background of your snapshot on Samsung Galaxy A04s in post-production using the mobile phone settings:

  • See you in the Gallery from your mobile phone.
  • Open the snapshot 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 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 captured the snapshot without functionality , you can still blur the background on your Samsung Galaxy A04s by following this manipulation:

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

Blur the background of a photo of your Samsung Galaxy A04s with an application

In the event that the manipulations that we have just shown you cannot be done, you still have one technique left. In this situation you will need to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A04s. The advantage of this manipulation 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 Samsung Galaxy A04s, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one feature, however, suddenly 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 Samsung Galaxy A04s.
  • 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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