Thousands of photos are taken on our smartphones every day. However, it may be necessary to improve them to highlight an object or a subject, to erase confidential data or to remove embarrassing details. In this context, blurring seems to be the right solution. But it is not always easy to find the technique to achieve artistic blurring. It is for this reason that today we will discover together how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy S6 .
First we will find out solutions to blur the background of an image with your Samsung Galaxy S6 . Then we will find out, how to blur a photo on Samsung Galaxy S6 with an application .
Blur the background of a photo using your Samsung Galaxy S6
This background blur in a photo was not so long ago reserved for SLR cameras. Thanks to technological advances in our phones, this function is now possible on most cell phones. It allows to highlight the main theme of an image en artistically blurring details of the background. We will now see that depending on the Android version of your smartphone, several solutions are available to you to blur the background of an image on your Samsung Galaxy S6.
Blur the background of an image from your Samsung Galaxy S6 before the photo is taken
Blurring the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy S6 can be useful for emphasizing the main subjects in the foreground. For this, several techniques are available to you. Some Android versions of your Samsung Galaxy S6 have by default a way to blur the background when you take the snapshot . The advantage of this option is that it is Fast . Indeed, you will neither need to do any post-production operations, nor need to download an application. In this case, how to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy S6:
- Open the app » Camera From your smartphone.
- Scroll down the options at the bottom of the screen and choose the feature » Portrait mode "
- The list of effects is displayed automatically. If you don't, tap the effects icon on the right side of the screen.
- Select 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 adjust blur level that you wish.
- Once the desired blur is obtained, take the photo.
On several versions of your Samsung Galaxy S6, the process is slightly different 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 an image from your Samsung Galaxy S6 in post-production
It may at times that the result obtained does not suit you or that, for the sake of speed, the settings you have made are not great. If so, you can still blur the background of your photo even after taking it .
On several Android versions, this manipulation is only possible if your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode. If you took the shot with one of these modes, we present here the procedure to perform to blur the background of your photo on Samsung Galaxy S6 in post-production using the smartphone settings:
- See you in the Gallery from your smartphone.
- 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 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 took the snapshot without functionality , you can also blur the background on your Samsung Galaxy S6 by applying this technique:
- Open the application Gallery from your smartphone.
- Choose image that you want to change.
- Click on the option » Edit "Then" Mosaic "
- Select the kind of blur .
- You should manually select the areas to blur .
- Set the intensity of the blur using the focus adjustment bar.
- Save the snapshot with the changes.
Blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy S6 with an application
If the manipulations we have just shown you cannot be performed, you still have a technique. You will then have to download an application to blur the background of a photo on your Samsung Galaxy S6. The advantage of this technique is that it will allow 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 S6, 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 Samsung Galaxy S6.
- 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 .
- To finish click on » Save To save it in your Gallery.
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