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 offer the possibility of competing with the photo quality of conventional cameras. This is how most recent smartphones are equipped with the bokeh effect. Allows so much to highlight the foreground on an image, this effect has become almost essential to achieve a beautiful photograph. This is the reason why we will find out in this article how to use the bokeh effect on a HUAWEI P30 Pro . First of all we will find out how to take a picture with the bokeh effect thanks to the native features of your HUAWEI P30 Pro. After that learn how to use bokeh mode on HUAWEI P30 Pro using third party application.

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Take a photograph with the bokeh effect thanks to the features of your HUAWEI P30 Pro

In the past, the bokeh effect was only reserved for SLR cameras. With the technological evolution of our smartphones, they are now able to compete with them. But what exactly is 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 manipulation seems easy to perform, it is not necessarily easy to find the function on our smartphone. This is the reason why we will discover in this first section how to get started with the bokeh effect on a HUAWEI P30 Pro using two ways: during the photo shooting and after taking the snapshot.

How to use bokeh mode while taking a snapshot

To use the bokeh effect on your HUAWEI P30 Pro quickly and easily, the best solution will be to use a mode to blur the background which is available on your smartphone. This mode will be used the moment you take the picture . So you won't need to do any photo retouching. We present here how to use the bokeh effect directly on your HUAWEI P30 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 is displayed. On some Android versions you will need to tap on the effects icon which is located on the right side of your screen.
  • Select the effect "  Flou   ».
  • Adjust the blur intensity  you want with the adjustment bar that appears.
  • Once set, all you have to do is take the picture.

It sometimes happens that to have a successful bokeh effect on your HUAWEI P30 Pro, the procedure is different due to the fact that you are on another Android version:

  • Open the application "  Camera   From your phone.
  • Select the option   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

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 HUAWEI P30 Pro by post production . Two alternatives will 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 seen. In this case, in the event that you took the picture with one of these modes, follow our guide to put a bokeh effect on any shot taken by your HUAWEI P30 Pro:

  • Open the Photo gallery from your phone.
  • Go to 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 pressing » Apply "

In the event that you want to add the bokeh effect to a photo of your HUAWEI P30 Pro that was not taken with one of the specific modes seen previously, another approach exists:

  • 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 the 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 a HUAWEI P30 Pro using an app

It is plausible that you will not have access to the features discussed above due to the Android version installed on your smartphone. If this is your case, then you will need to download third party app to use the bokeh effect on your HUAWEI P30 Pro. 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 in particular:

  • The option 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 several blur tools to get a custom bokeh effect on your HUAWEI P30 Pro. You can suddenly play on bokeh effects to get a blur style worked on each of your photos.

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