Today our smartphone gives the opportunity to immortalize the moments of our life easily and quickly. And brands have understood this well by creating technological innovations that offer the possibility of competing with the photo quality of conventional cameras. This is how the majority of modern cell 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 photo. This is the reason why we will find out in this guide how to use the bokeh effect on an Honor View 20 . First find out how to take a picture with the bokeh effect thanks to the native features of your Honor View 20. After that, we will see how to use the bokeh mode on an Honor View 20 with a specific application.
Take a photo with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your Honor View 20
In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological change in our mobile phones, they are now competing with them. However, what is the bokeh effect for? 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 action may seem easy to perform, it is not necessarily easy to find the functionality on our mobile phone. This is the reason why you will discover in this first section the use of the bokeh effect on an Honor View 20 by using two techniques: during the photo shooting and after taking the snapshot.
How to use bokeh mode when taking a snapshot
To use the bokeh effect on your Honor View 20 quickly and easily, the best technique will be to use a mode to blur the background which is standard on your mobile phone. This mode will be used the moment you take the picture . You will therefore not need to do photo retouching. We present here how to use the bokeh effect directly on your Honor View 20:
- Open your application » Camera "
- Select the » Portrait Mode »Present in the settings displayed 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.
- Choose the effect " Flou ».
- Adjust the blur intensity you want thanks to the adjustment bar that appears.
- Once set, all you have to do is take the picture.
It may happen that to get a nice bokeh effect on your Honor View 20, the procedure is different, because of your Android version:
- Open the application " Camera From your smartphone.
- Select the " Live focus " or " Live Focus ».
- Adjust the blur strength you want thanks to the adjustment bar that appears.
- Take the photograph 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 Honor View 20 by post production . Two solutions may be available to you:
The first of the alternatives only applies if your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode that we have just discovered. In this case, if you have ever taken the picture with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any shot taken by your Honor View 20:
- Open the Photo gallery from your smartphone.
- Display the photo which you want add bokeh effect .
- Press the option " Change background effect ».
- Select the type of effect vague.
- Adjust blur intensity .
- Save the image by clicking on » Apply "
In the event that you want to add the bokeh effect to an image of your Honor View 20 that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen previously, there is another procedure:
- Open the application Gallery .
- Show photo on which you want to add the bokeh effect.
- Press on " Edit »Then on the functionality» Mosaic "
- Select the type of blur effect that you want to add.
- Choose manually the areas where you want the bokeh effect to be added.
- Adjust focus slider until the desired blur effect is achieved.
- Save the image.
Use the bokeh effect on an Honor View 20 with an application
There are times when you may not have access to the features discussed above due to the Android version installed on your mobile phone. In the event that this is your case, you must in this specific case download a specific application to use the bokeh effect on your Honor View 20. 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 for example:
- The possibility 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 Honor View 20. You can therefore play with bokeh effects to obtain a blur style worked on each of your photos.
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Honor View 20, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Honor View 20.
