Thousands of snapshots are captured on our phones every day. However, it sometimes happens that it is required to improve 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 option. But it is not a long calm river to find the solution to achieve 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 A42 .
First we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Samsung Galaxy A42 . Then we will see, how to blur a photo on Samsung Galaxy A42 with an application .
Blur the background of a photo with your Samsung Galaxy A42
This background blur on a photo was still reserved for reflex cameras a few years ago. With the technical progress of our phones, this functionality is now possible on the vast majority of phones. It will allow highlight the main subject of an image en blurring artistically background details. We will now discover that depending on the Android version of your phone, there are several procedures for blurring the background of an image on your Samsung Galaxy A42.
Blur the background of an image from your Samsung Galaxy A42 before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A42 can be useful to bring out the main subjects in the foreground. With this in mind, several techniques are available to you. Some Android versions of your Samsung Galaxy A42 thus offer as standard a way to blur the background the moment you take the picture . The advantage of this option is that it is Fast . In fact, you won't need to do any post-production operations, nor need to download an application. So, how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A42:
- Open the app » Camera From your phone.
- 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 this is not the case, tap the effects icon on the right of the screen.
- Choose the effect » Flou "" Whirlwind " or " Zoom »According to 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 A42, the process is not quite the same for blurring the background of a photo:
- Open your application Camera .
- Choose 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 Samsung Galaxy A42 in post-production
It may sometimes happen that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not correct. If so, 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. In the event that you have captured the photo with one of these modes, we present here the procedure to follow to blur the background of your shot on Samsung Galaxy A42 in post-production with the help of the settings of the phone:
- See you in the Gallery from your phone.
- Open the photo that you want to blur.
- Press 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 adjust the amount of blur you want.
- To save the edited photo, press " Apply " ou tap the check mark icon.
Depending on the version of your Android and if you have captured the photo without functionality , you can still blur the background on your Samsung Galaxy A42 by applying this solution:
- Open the application Gallery from your phone.
- Select image that you want to touch up.
- Press the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Choose 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 Samsung Galaxy A42 with an application
In the event that the operations we have just shown you cannot be done, you still have a solution. You will then need to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy A42. The advantage of this solution is that it will allow 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 Samsung Galaxy A42, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it only has one feature, but suddenly 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 Samsung Galaxy A42.
- 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 .
- To finish click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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