Through this guide 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 allow them to compete with the photo quality of SLR cameras. This is how the majority of recent phones are equipped with the bokeh effect. Also allows you to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to take a beautiful photograph. This is why we will see in this article how to use the bokeh effect on a HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro . First we will see how to take a photo with the bokeh effect using the integrated features of your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro. After that, we will see how to use bokeh mode on a HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro using a specific application.
Take a photograph with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro
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 does the bokeh effect correspond to? It is neither more nor less put a blur effect on the background of the photo to contrast with the foreground.
Although this act seems simple to perform, it is not necessarily easy to find the function on our mobile phone. This is the reason why we are going to discover in this first section the use of the bokeh effect on a HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro thanks to two ways: during the photo taking and after taking the photo.
How to use bokeh mode while taking a photo
To use the bokeh effect on your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro in a simple and fast way, the best technique will be to use a mode to blur the background which is integrated as standard on your mobile phone. This mode will be used the moment you take the shot . You will therefore not need to do any photo editing. Here's how to use the bokeh effect directly on your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro:
- Open your application » Camera "
- Select the » Portrait Mode »Present in the parameters which 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 may happen that to have a successful bokeh effect on your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro, the approach is 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.
- Take the picture when the blur effect you are looking for is achieved.
How to put a bokeh effect in post production
There may be times when you want to add a bokeh effect to a photo after taking it. To do this, you will need to use some features of your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro by post production . Two alternatives will be available to you:
The first of the solutions only applies if your photo was taken with "Portrait mode" or "Live focus" mode that we have just seen. So, if you ever took the photo with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any shot taken by your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro:
- 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.
- Set blur intensity .
- Save the photo by clicking on » Apply "
If you want to add the bokeh effect to an image of your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen previously, there is another approach:
- 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 a HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro using an application
It may happen that you do not have access to the functions discussed above due to the Android version installed on your mobile phone. If this is your case, you will then have to download a specific application to use the bokeh effect on your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro. A very large number of applications exist, and among them, we suggest 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 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 several blur tools to get a custom bokeh effect on your HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro. You can therefore play on bokeh effects to obtain a style of blur worked on each of your photos.
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