Thousands of photos are captured on our phones every day. Despite everything, it sometimes happens that it is necessary to improve them to highlight an object or a subject, to 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. This is the reason why in this article we will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 .
First of all, we will see solutions to blur the background of an image with your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 . Then we will see, how to blur a photo on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 using an application .
Blur the background of a photo with your Samsung Galaxy Note 4
This background blur on a photo was still reserved for SLR cameras a few years ago. With the technological progress of our android devices, this function is now possible on the vast majority of cell phones. It gives the possibility of highlight the main subject of an image en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now learn that depending on the Android version of your smartphone, several procedures may be applied to blur the background of an image on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Blur the background of a snapshot of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can be interesting for highlighting the main subjects in the foreground. In order to do this, several techniques are available to you. Some Android versions of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are already original a way to blur the background the moment you capture the photo . The advantage of this technique is that it is Fast . In fact, you won't need to do any post-production operations or download an application. So, how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4:
- Open the app » Camera From your phone.
- Scroll through the options at the bottom of the screen and select the feature » Portrait mode "
- The list of effects is displayed automatically. If this is not what happens, 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 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 several versions of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the procedure is not quite the same to blur the background of a photo:
- Open your application Camera .
- Select the feature " Live focus "Or commonly called" Live Focus ».
- Adjust the degree of background blur by dragging the cursor.
Blur the background of a shot of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 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 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 took the picture with one of these modes, here is the procedure to blur the background of your image on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in post-production thanks to the settings of the smartphone:
- See you in the Gallery from your smartphone.
- 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 in order 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 ever took the photo without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 by applying this technique:
- Open the application Gallery from your phone.
- Choose image that you want to touch up.
- Press the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Choose 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 photo with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 using an application
If the operations we have just seen 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 Samsung Galaxy Note 4. The advantage of this technique 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 Samsung Galaxy Note 4, the best application is » Auto blur background ". As the name suggests, it has only one function, 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 Note 4.
- 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 set its intensity .
- Finally click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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