Today our telephone offers the possibility of immortalizing 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 SLR cameras. This is how most recent phones have the bokeh effect. Allows so much to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to achieve a beautiful image. This is the reason why we will see today how to use the bokeh effect on an Echo . First, find out how to take a picture with the bokeh effect thanks to the native features of your Echo. And then, we are going to see how to use the bokeh mode on an Echo using a specific application.
Take an image with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your Echo
In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological change in our phones, they are now able 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 image to bring out the subject clearly in the foreground.
Although this act seems easy to perform, it is not always easy to find the function on our phone. This is the reason why we will discover in this first section the use of the bokeh effect on an Echo thanks to two ways: during the taking of a photo and after having taken the snapshot.
How to use bokeh mode while taking a snapshot
To use the bokeh effect on your Echo quickly and easily, the best technique will be to use a mode to blur the background which is available by default on your phone. This mode will be used when you take the snapshot . You will therefore not need to do photo retouching. Here's how to use the bokeh effect directly on your Echo:
- Open your application » Camera "
- Select the » Portrait Mode »Present in the settings that appear at the bottom of the screen.
- Automatically, a list of effects appears. On some Android versions you will need to press the effects icon 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 capture the snapshot.
It is possible that to have a successful bokeh effect on your Echo, the process will be different because of your Android version:
- Open the application " Camera From your phone.
- Select the " Live focus " or " Live Focus ».
- Adjust the power of the blur you want using the adjustment bar that appears.
- Take the picture when the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.
How to put 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 functions of your Echo by post production . Two procedures may be available to you:
The first of the methods only applies if your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode that we have just discovered. In this case, if you took the photo with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any photo taken by your Echo:
- Open the Photo gallery from your smartphone.
- Go to the photo which you want add bokeh effect .
- Press the option " Change background effect ».
- Select the type of effect vague.
- Set blur intensity .
- Save the photo by pressing » Apply "
If you ever want to add the bokeh effect to an image of your Echo 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.
- Press on " Edit »Then on the function» Mosaic "
- Select the type of blur effect that you want to add.
- Select manually the areas where you want the bokeh effect to be added.
- Adjust focus slider until the desired blur effect is achieved.
- Save the photo.
Use the bokeh effect on an Echo using an app
It sometimes happens that you do not have access to the functions seen above due to the Android version installed on your phone. If this is your case, you should therefore download a specific application to use the bokeh effect on your Echo. A very large number of applications exist, and among them, we recommend the app " DSLR Camera Blur Effects ". The latter is very fast and easy to use. It has many operations to get the blur you want. Among these functions you will find among others:
- The option of choose the 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 Echo. You can suddenly play on bokeh effects to get a blur style worked on each of your photos.
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Echo, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Echo.
