Today our smartphone gives the opportunity to immortalize the moments of our life easily and quickly. And manufacturers have integrated it well by creating technological innovations that make it possible to compete with the photo quality of conventional cameras. This is how the majority of recent phones have the bokeh effect. Allows as much to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to achieve a beautiful photo. This is the reason why we will see today how to use the bokeh effect on an ASUS Zenfone 2 . At first we will see how to take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the built-in features of your ASUS Zenfone 2. After that, learn how to use the bokeh mode on an ASUS Zenfone 2 with a third-party application.
Take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your ASUS Zenfone 2
In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological evolution of our telephones, these come today to compete with them. However, what is the use of the bokeh effect? It is neither more nor less put a blur effect on the background of the photo to bring out the subject well in the foreground.
Although this action seems easy to accomplish, it is not necessarily easy to find the function on our phone. This is the reason why we are going to discover in this first part the use of the bokeh effect on an ASUS Zenfone 2 thanks to two techniques: during the photo taking and after having taken the photo.
How to use bokeh mode while taking a photo
To use the bokeh effect on your ASUS Zenfone 2 easily and quickly, the best solution will be to use a mode to blur the background which is built-in on your phone. This mode will be used when you take the snapshot . You will therefore not need any post-production manipulations. We present here how to use the bokeh effect directly on your ASUS Zenfone 2:
- Open your application » Camera "
- Select the » Portrait Mode »Present in the configurations that appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Automatically, a list of effects appears on the screen. On some Android versions you will need to press the effects icon which is located on the right side of your screen.
- Select the effect " Flou ».
- Adjust the blur intensity you want using the adjustment bar that appears.
- Once set, all you have to do is take the snapshot.
To obtain a successful bokeh effect on your ASUS Zenfone 2, the procedure may be different, due to the fact that you are on another Android version:
- Open the application " Camera From your smartphone.
- Select the " Live focus " or " Live Focus ».
- Adjust the power of the blur you want thanks to the adjustment bar that appears on the screen.
- Take the photograph as soon as the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.
How to add a bokeh effect in post-production
From time to time, you may want to add a bokeh effect to a photo after taking it. To do this, you will need to use certain features of your ASUS Zenfone 2 in post production . Two solutions may be available to you:
The first of the solutions only applies in the event that your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode that we have just discovered. In this case, in the event that you took the photo with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any photo taken by your ASUS Zenfone 2:
- Open the Photo gallery of your device.
- Display the photo on which you want add bokeh effect .
- Click on the option " Change background effect ».
- Select the type of effect vague.
- Set blur intensity .
- Save the image by clicking on » Apply "
If you want to add the bokeh effect to a photo of your ASUS Zenfone 2 that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen above, there is another step:
- Open the application Gallery .
- Show photo on which you want to add the bokeh effect.
- Click on " Edit »Then on the function» Mosaic "
- Select the kind of blurry effect that you want to add.
- Select manually areas where you want the bokeh effect to be added.
- Adjust focus slider until the desired blur effect is obtained.
- Save the image.
Use the bokeh effect on an ASUS Zenfone 2 with an app
From time to time you may not have access to the functions discussed above due to the Android version installed on your phone. If this is your situation, in this specific case you will need download third party app to use the bokeh effect on your ASUS Zenfone 2. A multitude of applications are available to you, and among them, we recommend the app » DSLR Camera Blur Effects ". The latter is very quick and easy to use. It has many operations to get the blur you want. Among these functions you will find in particular:
- The possibility of select focus area (circular blur, linear blur, blur on a personalized area, or on an area in contact with the finger). The brush size is adjustable.
- The provision of multiple blur tools to get a custom bokeh feel on your ASUS Zenfone 2. You can suddenly play on bokeh effects to obtain a blur style worked on each of your photos.
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of ASUS Zenfone 2, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: ASUS Zenfone 2.
